World
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Sri Lanka won’t extend state of emergency
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will not extend a state of emergency declared during the anti-government protests, his office announced…
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Gunmen kill 2 policemen in Pak guarding polio medics
Islamabad: Unidentified gunmen shot and killed two police officers in Pakistan deployed to guard medics administering the polio vaccine. The incident…
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Palestinian Prez sparks outrage with Holocaust accusation against Israel
Berlin: Visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sparked outrage when he accused Israel of committing a “Holocaust” against Palestinians during a joint…
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China orders factories to shut down as it faces fiercest heat wave in six decades
Hong Kong: China’s Sichuan province has ordered all factories to shut down for six days to ease a power shortage in…
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Zardari, Nawaz Sharif disown petrol price hike in Pakistan
Islamabad: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday distanced themselves from the Shehbaz Sharif government’s decision…
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Death toll from Armenia shopping centre blast reaches 16
Yerevan: The number of people who died after a blast at a shopping mall outside the Armenian capital of Yerevan has…
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US Justice Dept opposes request to unseal Mar-a-Lago search affidavit
Washington: The US Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a court filing that it opposes any attempts to unseal the affidavit…
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As Pakistan turns 75, Shehbaz cites flaws in economic model
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has cited three critical structural flaws in the country and said that “no successful country…
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Lt-Gen Sahir Shamshad Mirza seen as frontrunner for next Pak Army chief
Islamabad: It is almost time for the Pakistan government to make what is likely to be one of the toughest calls…
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Controversial Chinese ship arrives in Sri Lanka
Colombo: A controversial Chinese ship with ballistic missile and satellite tracking facilities which was deferred and delayed at the request of…
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Israel rejects appeal to free Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike
Tel Aviv: An Israeli military court has rejected an appeal to release a Palestinian prisoner whose health has been worsening amid…
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20 dead, 6 injured in Pakistan bus-oil tanker collision
Lahore: At least 20 people were killed and six others injured on Tuesday after a passenger bus collided head-on with an…
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William Ruto wins Kenya’s presidential election
Nairobi: Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto has been declared as the winner of the presidential election, beating his main rival and…
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Aung San Suu Kyi given 6 more years in jail for corruption
Yangon: A court controlled by the military junta in Myanmar sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to six more years…
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Israeli court rejects appeal to free Palestinian prisoner in hunger striker
Jerusalem: Israeli military court rejected an appeal to release a Palestinian prisoner whose health has been worsening amid his 165-day hunger…
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FBI ‘stole’ passports during Mar-a-Lago search: Trump
Washington: Former US President Donald Trump has accused the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of stealing his passports during a recent…
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Iran categorically denies any link with Salman Rushdie’s attacker
Tehran: Iran has “categorically” denied any link with Salman Rushdie’s attacker, and instead blamed the writer himself, media reports said. Rushdie,…
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Padma Lakshmi hopes for ‘swift healing’ of ex husband Salman Rushdie
Los Angeles: Indian American model, TV host, author and activist Padma Lakshmi sent her good wishes to her former-husband and Indian-born…
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Stephen King calls Donald Trump ‘horrible President’, ‘horrible person’
Los Angeles: Legendary author Stephen King doesn’t like former US President Donald Trump and he is very public about it, reports…
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Trump requests FBI to return documents
Washington: Former US President Donald Trump has demanded that some of the documents seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation…
