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Belgian police kill two in raid on suspe...

Belgian police kill two in raid on suspected Islamists

Belgian police killed two men who opened fire on them during one of about a dozen raids on Thursday against an Islamist group that federal prosecutors said was about to launch “terrorist attacks on a grand scale”. Coming a week after Islamist gunmen killed 17 people in Paris, the incident... read more »

US drone strike kills seven in South Waz...

US drone strike kills seven in South Waziristan

PESHAWAR – At least seven suspected militants have been killed while four others injured in a US drone strike near the Pak-Afghan border in South Waziristan Agency. Two of the dead militants are reported to be of Uzbek origin. Intelligence sources said that the US drone fired two missiles on a... read more »

Six labourers killed, 10 injured in coal...

Six labourers killed, 10 injured in coalmine blast

KALAYA: Six labourers were killed and seven others sustained injuries in a coalmine explosion in the Doli area in Orakzai Agency where the Mines and Minerals Department has declared several quarries and tunnels as dangerous, an official said on Thursday.   Political Agent Zubair Khan said that... read more »

Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram may be...

Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram may be ineligible to vote in upcoming ele...

Nigerians fleeing a wave of killings by the Islamist group Boko Haram have already lost loved ones, livelihoods and most of their possessions. Now they seem likely to lose their vote. A closely fought presidential election is to be held in a month’s time and the law states people must go home... read more »

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Delhi assemble election: 48 per cent polling till 3 pm

Delhi assemble election: 48 per cent polling till 3 pm

Amid brisk polling, an estimated 48 per cent of around 1.2 crore voters exercised their franchise till 3 pm in Delhi Assembly election, which is witnessing a tight triangular contest among ruling... read more »

Centre working for conclusion on Telangana issue: Ghulam Nabi Azad

Centre working for conclusion on Telangana issue: ...

Kolkata- Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said the Telangana Bill is at an advanced stage, and added that the... read more »

Instagram business head Emily White to join Snapchat as...

Instagram business head Emily White to join Snapchat as COO

Washington – Facebook-owned Instagram’s business head, Emily White is reportedly poised to join photo-sharing service Snapchat as its COO. White has... read more »

Decommissioned INS Vikrant to be auctioned

Decommissioned INS Vikrant to be auctioned

New Delhi –  The Defence Ministry has initiated the process for the auctioning of the decommissioned aircraft carrier INS Vikrant. A decision to this... read more »

25 to 30 percent voting reported till noon in Delhi pol...

Elections: Counting of votes begins in Mizoram

New Delhi – Twenty-five to thirty per cent voting was reported till noon on Wednesday in the ongoing Delhi State Assembly elections. Voters stood in... read more »

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Sri Lanka trade show attracts $1 bn investment

Raise rights at Sri Lanka summit, rights groups say

New York – Governments attending the Commonwealth summit should press the host, Sri Lanka, on accountability for alleged war crimes and ongoing human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said... read more »

Haqqani network leader's son killed in Pakistan

Haqqani network leader’s son killed in Pakis...

Islamabad – Naseeruddin Haqqani, the son of Haqqani network leader Jalaluddin Haqqani, was killed in a firing incident here Sunday night, a... read more »

New Zealand committed to Commonwealth: PM John Key

New Zealand committed to Commonwealth: PM John Key

Wellington – New Zealand Prime Minister John Key Monday defended his decision to travel to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri... read more »

Bangladesh ministers quit for poll-time government form...

Bangladesh ministers quit for poll-time government formation

Dhaka – Bangladesh government ministers have submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ahead of the cabinet reshuffle as part of the... read more »

Unicef mobilises aid for typhoon affected kids in Phili...

Philippine typhoon toll rises to 5,598

United Nations – The UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF) said Sunday that it is rushing emergency supplies to areas of the Philippines ravaged by super... read more »

No Agreement in Iran, U.S. Talks

MUSCAT, Oman—Two days of exhaustive negotiations between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif, in the Persian Gulf nation of Oman resulted in no... read more »

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Released From Jail

STOCKHOLM:  A Swedish founder of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay was freed from prison on Monday, a week after his colleague was arrested in Thailand after years on the run. “My... read more »

Sewol trial: Ferry captain sentenced to 36 years in jail

The captain of the South Korean ferry which sank in April has been found guilty of gross negligence and sentenced to 36 years in prison. The Sewol ferry was carrying 476 people when it went... read more »

Nigeria suicide blast kills scores of teenagers

A school in northern Nigeria has been left reeling from a devastating suicide bomb blast which killed at least 48 people mostly teenage students and injured scores more. The attack happened... read more »

Egyptian Militant Group Pledges Loyalty to Islamic State

CAIRO:  They have slaughtered hundreds of Egyptian soldiers and police officers, recruited experienced fighters and staged increasingly sophisticated raids from the Western desert to the Sinai... read more »