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PM Modi writes in German daily, says Ind...

PM Modi writes in German daily, says India should be an engine for worldwid...

India should be an engine for worldwide growth on the strengths of its democracy and a fresh push to revitalise the country’s economy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. Since India’s voters gave the first clear majority mandate to the BJP in three decades, the NDA government has put... read more »

Germanwings plane evacuated after bomb t...

Germanwings plane evacuated after bomb threat

Berlin: Germanwings says a plane headed for Milan was evacuated at Cologne-Bonn airport after German police received a bomb threat against the flight. The airline said the threat against flight 826 to Milan’s Malpensa airport was received by federal police on Sunday evening. The tower in... read more »

Egypt imposes life jail penalty for cros...

Egypt imposes life jail penalty for cross-border tunnel use

People who dig and use cross-border tunnels in Egypt could face a maximum penalty of life in jail, state news agency MENA said on Sunday, citing amendments to the penal code targeting activity in the frontier area near the Gaza Strip. Egypt declared a state of emergency in the border area last year... read more »

Tsarnaev guilty of all 30 counts in Bost...

Tsarnaev guilty of all 30 counts in Boston bombing

Boston (CNN)Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, his face a blank, stood with his head bowed and his hands clasped as the guilty verdicts tolled one after another for what seemed like an eternity: Guilty of using weapons of mass destruction, guilty of bombing a place of public use, guilty of conspiracy and aiding... read more »

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36 killed in air strike in Syria

36 killed in air strike in Syria

Beirut – At least 36 people died, including 15 children, in an air attack by the Syrian military against different neighbourhoods in the northern city of Aleppo, the opposition Syrian... read more »

China hails its lunar probe mission as complete success

China hails its lunar probe mission as complete su...

Beijing – China hailed its Chang’e-3 lunar probe mission “a complete success” Sunday night, after its first moon rover Yutu,... read more »

Nepal to allow private investment in power transmission

Nepal to allow private investment in power transmission

Kathmandu – The government of Nepal is ready to invite private sector investment in power transmission line projects, an official said here Sunday. The... read more »

South Korea leader warns of North’s ‘reckle...

South Korea leader warns of North's 'reckless provocations'

Seoul – South Korean President Park Geun-Hye warned Monday of possible “reckless provocations” by North Korea after the shock execution of... read more »

Air defence zone remarks: China refutes Japanese PM

Air defence zone remarks: China refutes Japanese PM

Beijing – Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hong Lei has strongly refuted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent remarks on China’s... read more »

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Former Iran vice president jailed over corruption charges

The former vice president of Iran, Mohammad Reza Rahimi, who was sentenced to a little over five years in prison for corruption, was transferred to a jail Sunday, Iran’s official IRNA... read more »

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