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King Charles pays emotional tribute to f...

King Charles pays emotional tribute to fallen troops on solemn second day o...

King Charles pays emotional tribute to fallen troops on solemn second day of Caribbean tour The King spent time in the bright heat in Coral Harbour in The Bahamas today, where he spent time with members of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force on the second day of his Caribbean tour This article was... read more »

Brit pensioner drowns trying to rescue h...

Brit pensioner drowns trying to rescue her granddaughter from the sea in Me...

Brit pensioner drowns trying to rescue her granddaughter from the sea in Menorca The woman, aged 70, was on holiday with her 10-year-old granddaughter when the incident happened at Cavalleria Beach in Menorca This article was created based on information from various sources and rewritten for... read more »

Ethiopia receives 12 Russian Su-35 jets,...

Ethiopia receives 12 Russian Su-35 jets, plans S-400 acquisition

Ethiopia receives 12 Russian Su-35 jets, plans S-400 acquisition PM Abiy Ahmed makes announcement during a Moscow summit as Ethiopia battles armed groups in Tigray and Amhara. This article was created based on information from various sources and rewritten for clarity and... read more »

Bank of Canada raises interest rates for...

Bank of Canada raises interest rates for the first time in three years

Bank of Canada raises interest rates for the first time in three years The central bank increased the key rate by a quarter point as soaring energy prices pushed up inflation. This article was created based on information from various sources and rewritten for clarity and... read more »

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China sacks 160,000 government employees who did not exist

BEIJING – China has taken 160,000 “phantom” government staff off its official payroll who were receiving salaries despite not doing any work. A total of 162,629 officials who were taking... read more »

Nepal bus crash kills 29 people and injures dozens

An overloaded bus in western Nepal has fallen off a road and plunged into a gorge, killing 29 and injuring dozens, the BBC reported. Most of the... read more »

Islamic State video shows beheading of British hostage ...

LONDON: British taxi driver Alan Henning, who skipped Christmas with his family to raise funds to purchase ambulances and medical equipment and join an aid... read more »

Bomb at bus station in northwest Pakistan kills 5

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A powerful bomb exploded Saturday at a bus station in northwest Pakistan, killing five people and wounding three others, police... read more »

Pakistan condemns US drone attack in Waziristan

Islamabad: Pakistan on Sunday condemned the latest US drone attack in the tribal region of Waziristan which left two people killed earlier in the day. The... read more »

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Saudi militants behind attack on Defence Ministry: Yemen

Saudi militants behind attack on Defence Ministry: Yemen

Saudi militants were behind the massive car bombing and assault on Yemen’s military headquarters that killed more than 50 people, including an Indian nurse and other foreigners, investigators said... read more »

Probe human rights abuses in Cote d'Ivoire: UN

Probe human rights abuses in Cote d’Ivoire: ...

United Nations – The UN Friday called for investigations into serious human rights abuses committed in Cote d’Ivoire by the Dozo,... read more »

Syrian rebel group demands hostage swap for abducted nu...

Syrian rebel group demands hostage swap for abducted nuns - paper

BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Syrian rebel group calling itself “Free Qalamoun” has claimed the kidnapping of 12 nuns and said it wants to trade them... read more »

UN chief condemns terror attacks in Yemen

UN chief condemns terror attacks in Yemen

United Nations – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Thursday strongly condemned the terrorist attacks against Yemen’s defence ministry which... read more »

Syrian chemical weapons removal programme on track: off...

Syrian chemical weapons disposal plan to be released next week: UN

United Nations – The head of the joint United Nation! s and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons team charged with eliminating chemical... read more »

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50 percent of Pakistanis support government: Survey

Islamabad – Fifty percent of Pakistan’s population supports the present government, with 49 percent favouring the opposition, a survey has found. An opinion poll conducted Aug 1-26 by the... read more »

Tajikistan's Imomali Rakhmon re-elected president

Tajikistan’s Imomali Rakhmon re-elected pres...

Tajikistan’s President Imomali Rakhmon has won a new seven-year term in Wednesday’s election, receiving 83.1 percent of the vote after... read more »

Maldives president hopes for credible poll

Maldives president hopes for credible poll

Male – Maldives President Mohamed Waheed Wednesday expressed the hope for a credible and successful presidential election later this week. He said this... read more »

Graft case filed against former Pak PM Ashraf

Graft case filed against former Pak PM Ashraf

Pakistan’s anti-graft watchdog on Wednesday filed a case against former premier Raja Pervez Ashraf over a Rs 22-billion scam in setting up power... read more »

Court orders Musharraf’s release

Court orders Musharraf's release

Islamabad – A Pakistan court Wednesday ordered the release of ex-president Pervez Musharraf from house arrest, two days after he was granted bail in... read more »

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Lula beats Bolsonaro in Brazil election to win unprecedented fourth term

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