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Panama Papers: Sharif’s indictment in graft cases postponed
Islamabad An anti-corruption court in Pakistan on Monday postponed the indictment of ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on charges of corruption in the […]
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9/11 lights play havoc with migratory bird behaviour
The two powerful blue beams of light that commemorate the September 11 terror attacks in New York have been radically changing the behaviour […]
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Mahatma Gandhi’s statue unveiled in Wales
A six-foot tall statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled on Monday in Wales to mark his 148th birth anniversary. The 300-kg statue, which […]
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Three share Medicine Nobel for shedding light on how biological clock ticks
Stockholm US geneticists Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W Young were awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize today for shedding light on […]
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Trump to address nation after Las Vegas shooting
President Donald Trump will on Monday address the nation after a shooting massacre in Las Vegas — the most deadly in modern US […]
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China opens new highway in Tibet close to Arunachal border
China on Sunday opened a 409-km new expressway costing about $5.8 billion linking Tibet’s provincial capital Lhasa with Nyingchi, which is close to […]
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Austria’s Burqa Ban law comes into force
A law that forbids any kind of full- face covering, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa, has come into force […]
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Violence erupts as Catalans vote on split from Spain, over 300 ‘wounded’
Spanish riot police burst into polling stations across Catalonia on Sunday, confiscating ballot boxes and voting papers to try to halt a banned […]
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Israel pushing region to war, says Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
Lebanon’s Hezbollah accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on Sunday of pushing the region to war in Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza […]
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Afghan airstrike kills ten security forces in Helmand province
An Afghan airstrike killed 10 security forces in volatile Helmand today, an official said, as the country’s military attempts to oust Taliban insurgents […]
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Air France A380 makes emergency landing with damaged engine
An Air France A380 superjumbo carrying more than 500 people made an emergency landing in Canada after suffering “serious damage” to one of […]
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Iraqi military preparing to take control of Kurdish borders
Iraq’s military prepared on Saturday to take control of the international borders of the northern Kurdish region. The move is part of the […]