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More than 300 migrants died this week tr...

More than 300 migrants died this week trying to reach Italy – UN agen...

More than 300 people died trying to cross the sea from Africa to Italy this week, the U.N. refugee agency said on Wednesday, adding pressure on Europe to expand a border operation that lacks a clear mandate to save lives. The high number of deaths, including 29 people who died of hypothermia on the... read more »

Tax authority to expand probe into HSBC ...

Tax authority to expand probe into HSBC accounts

The UK tax authority will expand the scope of its investigation into Swiss tax accounts held with HSBC, the BBC has learned. HMRC will meet with the police and the Serious Fraud Office later in the week. The BBC’s business editor, Kamal Ahmed, said the move to involve other law enforcement... read more »

US gunman kills three young Muslims; mot...

US gunman kills three young Muslims; motive disputed

A gunman who had posted anti-religious messages on Facebook and quarrelled with neighbours was charged with killing three young Muslims in what police said on Wednesday was a dispute over parking and possibly a hate crime. Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, a full-time paralegal student from Chapel Hill, was... read more »

Obama asks fresh war powers to fight IS

Obama asks fresh war powers to fight IS

President Barack Obama urged Congress on Wednesday to authorise military action against the Islamic State militants who are cutting a swath across the West Asia, vowing their forces “are going to lose.” Yet he ruled out large-scale U.S. ground combat operations reminiscent of Iraq and... read more »

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Imran Khan wants CIA's Pak chief charged with `murder` over drone strike

Imran Khan wants CIA’s Pak chief charged with `murder` over...

London – Former cricketer Imran Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has alleged that the CIA’s most senior officer in Islamabad was responsible for November 21 drone strike,... read more »

Stop praising Tendulkar, Taliban tells Pakistan media

Stop praising Tendulkar, Taliban tells Pakistan me...

Islamabad – The Pakistani media has been warned by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan to immediately stop praising India’s cricket... read more »

Gen Sharif shifted army from India-centric position: Da...

Pak's new army chief Gen Raheel has no presence on Facebook, Twitter

Islamabad – Pakistan’s new army chief General Raheel Sharif is credited with “shifting the army away from its India-centric position”,... read more »

Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra survives no-confidence vote...

Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra survives no-confidence vote,protests continue

Thailand’s embattled Prime Minister has easily survived a no-confidence vote in parliament. Lawmakers in Bangkok voted 297 to 134 Thursday against unseating... read more »

46 killed, 71 wounded in Iraq attacks

25 killed, 36 injured in Iraq violence

Baghdad – At least 46 people were killed and 71 wounded in a wave of attacks across Iraq Wednesday. At le! ast 10 people were killed and 30 wounded in a... read more »

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Hong Kong – Two people were arrested Thursday evening after police said they snatched some of the nearly 15.23 million Hong Kong dollars that spilled from a money transport van onto a... read more »

Sony says online PlayStation disrupted

TOKYO: Sony’s online PlayStation store and Microsoft’s Xbox site suffered disruptions to users on Christmas Day in the latest possible cyber-attacks on the companies. The... read more »

Tsunami anniversary: Rebuilding lives in Aceh

At first glance, Rina looks like any other 14-year-old Indonesian girl. Shy and cherubic, she’s yet to lose the child-like innocence that comes with the territory of teen-hood. We... read more »

Ex-minister sentenced to death in Bangladesh

Syed Mohammad Qaisar, 73, was found guilty of 14 out of 16 charges including genocide, rape, extortion, arson and torture committed during the 1971 war, prosecutors said. Pakistani-backed... read more »

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe close to deal on controversial US base on Okinawa

Japan parliament reelects Shinzo Abe as prime minister

Japan’s parliament reelected Shinzo Abe on Wednesday to serve another term as prime minister after his party won a snap election earlier this month. Abe won 328 votes out of the 470 cast by... read more »