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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 »

24 dead, 22 injured in Bangladesh bus ac...

24 dead, 22 injured in Bangladesh bus accident

A police officer says an overnight bus packed with passengers veered off the road, hit trees and plunged into a ditch, killing at least 24 people and injuring 22 others in southwestern Bangladesh. The accident took place early Thursday in the Bhanga area of Faridpur district when the bus was... read more »

12-year-old Israeli girl dies in Thailan...

12-year-old Israeli girl dies in Thailand ferry fire

The search team on Thursday found the body of a 12-year-old Israeli girl, the only fatality from a tourist boat that caught fire in the Andaman Sea in the country’s southwest, Thai officials said. The rest of about 110 passengers, mostly foreign tourists, and crew were rescued on Wednesday after... read more »

Killed red sander ‘smugglers’...

Killed red sander ‘smugglers’ taken off bus: Witness account pu...

The Andhra Pradesh police version of events with regards to the killing of 20 red sanders smugglers in Chittoor district has received a crippling blow after a ‘witness’ has come forward to say that he saw seven of the supposed ‘smugglers’ dragged off a bus by Andhra Pradesh... read more »

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In Congress-NCP rival, Mumbai waits for its Police Commissioner

Mumbai:  It’s been a week since Satyapal Singh quit as Mumbai Police Commissioner and joined the BJP, but the Maharashtra government hasn’t been able find his replacement. Several top... read more »

Delhi power firm, targeted by Arvind Kejriwal, goe...

New Delhi:  A Delhi power distribution company backed by Anil Ambani has moved the Supreme Court challenging a move to cut off power supply to it... read more »

Samajwadi Party leader says his buffaloes more famous t...

Lucknow -Irked at the media coverage of his stolen buffaloes and the subsequent suspension of three policemen, senior Uttar Pradesh minister Mohd Azam Khan... read more »

This 25-year-old is powering Lalu Prasad’s social...

Patna – When Lalu Prasad joined Twitter last month, he batted down the snide remarks of political rivals by tweeting that “youth power cannot be... read more »

IIT-Kanpur student commits suicide, third on campus sin...

Lucknow – A student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur on Wednesday committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan in his... read more »

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19 jailed Bangladeshi fishermen return from India

19 jailed Bangladeshi fishermen return from India

Dhaka – Nineteen Bangladeshi fishermen have returned to their homeland after completing three-year jail-term in India for having illegally entered the I! ndian territory, bdnews24.com... read more »

Preparations for upcoming Geneva II on track: UN chief

Preparations for upcoming Geneva II on track: UN c...

United Nations – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon Monday said that preparations for the Geneva II c! onference were “on track”... read more »

South Sudan president ready to talk with former deputy:...

South Sudan president ready to talk with former deputy: US envoy

Washington – South Sudan President Salva Kiir has said he is ready to hold talks with country’s former vice president Riek Machar “without... read more »

70 killed Nigerian clashes: military

70 killed Nigerian clashes: military

Lagos – Over 70 people have been killed in clashes between the army and members of the Boko Haram militant group in the northeast, following last Friday... read more »

Afghan army defuses 65 bombs in Kandahar

Afghan army defuses 65 bombs in Kandahar

Kabul – The Afghan army specialists have recovered and defused 65 bombs in the country’s Kandahar province, the defence ministry said... read more »

Federer out of Australian Open, beaten by Andreas Seppi

Roger Federer is out of the Australian Open in the third round, beaten by Italian Andreas Seppi 6-4, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (5) on Friday. Federer was trying to come from two sets down for the... read more »

South Korean president nominates new prime minister

SEOUL: South Korean President Park Geun-hye has nominated ruling party lawmaker Lee Wan Koo to replace Prime Minister Chung Hong-won nearly 10 months after Chung offered to resign over a... read more »

US officials detail Islamic State kills, but hard part ahead

LONDON: The US and its allies sought to put a good face on the coalition’s deliberate campaign to roll back the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria on Thursday, boasting of having... read more »

Historic move: UK begins transfer of powers to Scotland

LONDON: The British government began a historic transfer of powers to Scotland on Thursday, keeping a pledge it had given to persuade Scots to reject independence as renewed nationalist... read more »

Probe into Neruda’s death to be reopened

Chile will reopen an investigation into the death of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda to determine if the poet was poisoned more than 40 years ago by a military dictatorship, after tests on his exhumed... read more »