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Trump says end of Islamic State’s caliphate ‘in sight’ after Raqqa’s fall
President Donald Trump on Saturday lauded the liberation of Raqqa as “a critical breakthrough” in the international campaign to defeat ISIS and said […]
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Former US President Jimmy Carter says will travel to North Korea
Former US President Jimmy Carter said he will be willing to travel to North Korea on behalf of the Trump administration to help […]
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Envoy met Swaraj, but not on Jadhav, Pak clarifies
Islamabad Pakistan today said its High Commissioner Sohail Mahmood met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, but dismissed as “speculative” the reports in media […]
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Meeting Dalai Lama ‘major offence’, China warns world leaders
Beijing China on Saturday warned that it would consider as a “major offence” if any country or foreign leader hosts or meets the […]
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Xi Jinping foiled coup by ex-Chinese political heavyweights: Official
Beijing Chinese President Xi Jinping has foiled a coup by former political heavyweights who were at the receiving end of his high-profile anti-graft […]
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US condemns twin terror attacks on Afghanistan mosques
The US today condemned the terrorist attacks on two mosques in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul and Ghor province in which at least 63 people […]
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‘US hasn’t seen significant change in Pak’s support to terror groups’
The US “has not seen a significant change” in Pakistan’s selective support to terror groups operating from its soil to threaten regional stability […]
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Oxford students vote to remove Suu Kyi’s name from their junior common room
Undergraduates at the Oxford college where Myanmar’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi studied have voted to remove her name from the title […]
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Inspired by Catalonia, UK’s Canvey Island plans bid for independence
A small island community in the Thames Estuary that voted massively for Brexit is now drawing inspiration from distant Catalonia for its own […]
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Australian Senate rejects proposed visa, citizenship curbs
Sydney Australia’s lawmakers have rejected legislation that would tighten citizenship and foreign worker visa rules, a blow to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull who […]
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Spain threatens Catalonia with direct rule from Madrid
Madrid Spain’s central government threatened on Thursday to suspend Catalonia’s autonomy after the region’s leader said it could go ahead with a formal […]
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In Syria, student dreams shattered by war
They once dreamt of becoming engineers, teachers or other professionals, but for tens of thousands of Syrian students those hopes were cut short […]