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Suicide blasts in Nigeria kill at least 31

Suicide blasts in Nigeria kill at least 31

-- 2018-06-17 18:34:31

Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed at least 31 people in a twin suicide bomb attack on a town in northeast Nigeria, a local official and militia leader on Sunday. Two blasts ripped through the tow...

India resumes military strikes on Kashmir militants

India resumes military strikes on Kashmir militants

-- 2018-06-17 18:06:16

NEW DELHI: India said Sunday (Jun 17) it was resuming military operations against rebels in disputed Kashmir after a rare 30-day suspension for Ramadan expired, with a top minister blaming militant...

Greece, Macedonia sign historic deal to end name row

Greece, Macedonia sign historic deal to end name row

-- 2018-06-17 17:45:01

Greece and Macedonia have signed a deal that aims to settle a decades-long dispute over Macedonia's name. Under the agreement, Greece's neighbour will be known as North Macedonia. Greek PM Alexis Ts...

S Korea, US to suspend of major military drills

S Korea, US to suspend of major military drills

-- 2018-06-17 16:39:55

SEOUL: South Korea and the United States are expected to announce the suspension of “large-scale” military drills this week, with the provision that they would restart if North Korea faile...

Death toll from suicide bombing in Afghanistan climbs to 36  

Death toll from suicide bombing in Afghanistan climbs to 36  

-- 2018-06-17 16:03:18

The death toll from a suicide bombing against a gathering of Taliban fighters celebrating a holiday cease-fire in Afghanistan has risen to 36, an official said Sunday. Najibullah Kamawal, director of...

Taxi ploughs into World Cup fans in Moscow

Taxi ploughs into World Cup fans in Moscow

-- 2018-06-17 15:09:37

A taxi drove into a crowd of pedestrians near Moscow’s Red Square on Saturday, injuring seven people including two Mexicans in the city for the football World Cup which Russia is hosting, offici...

Afghan peace council to hold news  conference amid Eid ceasefire

Afghan peace council to hold news conference amid Eid ceasefire

-- 2018-06-17 13:54:51

Afghanistan’s High Peace Council will hold a news conference on Sunday amid an unprecedented Taliban ceasefire and a day after President Ashraf Ghani said he would extend a government ceasefire...

17 die in Venezuela stampede

17 die in Venezuela stampede

-- 2018-06-17 11:45:16

At least seventeen people died at a Caracas club early on Saturday morning when a person activated a tear gas grenade inside, Venezuela's interior minister Nestor Reverol said. Over 500 people were a...

Italy demands Netherlands recall NGO migrant rescue ships

Italy demands Netherlands recall NGO migrant rescue ships

-- 2018-06-17 10:19:08

Migrants are seen after being rescued by MV Aquarius, a search and rescue ship run in partnership between SOS Mediterranee and Medecins Sans Frontieres in the central Mediterranean Sea, June 12, 2018....

Deal with N Korea to save millions from potential N-war:Trump

Deal with N Korea to save millions from potential N-war:Trump

-- 2018-06-16 22:04:28

President Donald Trump says his deal with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un will save tens of millions of people from a potential nuclear war. Now he just has to get everyone else on board. Frustrated...

14 dead in floods, landslides in Indian NE states

14 dead in floods, landslides in Indian NE states

-- 2018-06-16 21:45:53

NEW DELHI: Incessant heavy rains throughout the week have led to flooding and landslides in Indian states of Assam, Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur, resulting in loss of at least 14 lives. Train service...

India to form North Eastern Council

India to form North Eastern Council

-- 2018-06-16 21:40:55

  NEW DELHI: The Indian Union Cabinet has approved the proposal of Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) for the nomination of the Union Home Minister as ex-officio Chairm...

Car bomb kills 20 during Eid ceasefire in Afghanistan

Car bomb kills 20 during Eid ceasefire in Afghanistan

-- 2018-06-16 20:58:09

  KABUL : A car bomb killed at least 20 people at a gathering of Taliban and Afghan armed forces in the eastern city of Nangarhar on Saturday, an official said, as soldiers and militants elsewhe...

Bengalis of Karachi facing identity problem

Bengalis of Karachi facing identity problem

-- 2018-06-16 20:50:21

  KARACHI: An overwhelming number of Karachi's Bengali community remains out of the finalised electoral rolls for the general elections because they do not possess a CNIC, a prerequisite for bei...

Spain rescues more than 900 boat migrants, finds four bodies

Spain rescues more than 900 boat migrants, finds four bodies

-- 2018-06-16 19:35:17

MADRID: Spain’s coast guard rescued 933 migrants and found four dead bodies in the Mediterranean Friday and Saturday, as the country prepared for the arrival of a charity rescue ship that was de...

Troops fire at anti-India protesters in Kashmir; 1 dead

Troops fire at anti-India protesters in Kashmir; 1 dead

-- 2018-06-16 18:05:58

SRINAGAR: At least one person was killed and about two dozen others wounded on Saturday as protests against Indian rule followed by clashes erupted in Indian-controlled Kashmir shortly after Eid praye...

Arab alliance close to capturing Hodeidah airport

Arab alliance close to capturing Hodeidah airport

-- 2018-06-16 17:30:18

ADEN : Forces from an Arab alliance entered the airport in Yemen’s main port city of Hodeidah Saturday, the coalition-backed Yemeni military said, in the biggest offensive in the war against the...

Fire ravages Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building

Fire ravages Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building

-- 2018-06-16 12:13:16

Glasgow's world-renowned School of Art has been gutted by another huge blaze, four years after part of the building was destroyed by fire. Flames ripped through the celebrated Mackintosh building aft...

Nicaragua agrees during crisis talks to allow probe of deadly unrest

Nicaragua agrees during crisis talks to allow probe of deadly unrest

-- 2018-06-16 11:56:06

In a surprise announcement, Nicaragua's influential Catholic bishops late Friday said rival government and civil delegates had agreed to create a "verification" commission and invite independent inter...

2,000 migrant children separate from families in US border

2,000 migrant children separate from families in US border

-- 2018-06-16 11:42:14

Almost 2,000 migrant children were separated from their families at the US border over six weeks, officials say. Following a Trump administration crackdown on illegal border crossings from Mexico, ad...

Kashmir police arrest suspect after editor shot dead

Kashmir police arrest suspect after editor shot dead

-- 2018-06-16 11:03:50

Police in Kashmir investigating the killing of a prominent journalist and two of his security guards arrested a suspect on Friday, an official said. Syed Shujaat Bukhari, editor of the Rising Kashmir...

US judge sends ex-Trump campaign head Manafort to jail until trial

US judge sends ex-Trump campaign head Manafort to jail until trial

-- 2018-06-16 10:53:38

US President Donald Trump's former election campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was sent to jail pending trial on Friday after being charged with witness tampering, the latest episode in his long fall fr...

Paris builds Eiffel Tower terror fence

Paris builds Eiffel Tower terror fence

-- 2018-06-16 10:52:06

Paris is to unveil its newly built perimeter defences around the Eiffel Tower to protect against terror threats. Temporary barriers were placed around the tower in June 2016, and are now being replac...

India facing 'worst water crisis in its history'

India facing 'worst water crisis in its history'

-- 2018-06-15 21:28:03

India is facing its worst-ever water crisis, with some 600 million people facing acute water shortage, a government think-tank says. The Niti Aayog report, which draws on data from 24 of India's 29 s...

Putin-Trump meeting likely this summer

Putin-Trump meeting likely this summer

-- 2018-06-15 20:56:32

MOSCOW: Moscow does not rule out a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump this summer, RIA news agency reported on Friday, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Pes...

Trump will call Kim on Sunday

Trump will call Kim on Sunday

-- 2018-06-15 20:43:17

WASHINGTON : US President Donald Trump said on Friday he plans to call North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sunday, following their summit in Singapore this week. “I’m going to be actually...

Arab forces poised to take airport of Yemen's main port city

Arab forces poised to take airport of Yemen's main port city

-- 2018-06-15 20:28:49

ADEN : Forces from an alliance of Arab states fought their way to the outskirts of the airport in Yemen’s main port city on Friday, as the Eid holiday saw a battle the United Nations fears could...

1.6b Muslims celebrating Eid across the world

1.6b Muslims celebrating Eid across the world

-- 2018-06-15 19:28:22

About 1.6 billion Muslims across the world marked the festival this year, report BBC. Eid al-Fitr is "the feast of the breaking of the fast" that begins when the moon rises on the final day of Ramada...

Malaysia's Najib may face charges of money laundering

Malaysia's Najib may face charges of money laundering

-- 2018-06-15 17:54:22

KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysian authorities investigating scandal-hit state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) are considering charging former prime minister Najib Razak with money laundering and misap...

Air strike kills Pakistani Taliban leader

Air strike kills Pakistani Taliban leader

-- 2018-06-15 17:31:25

Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in a US-Afghan air strike in Afghanistan, a senior Afghan Defence Ministry official said on Friday, a killing likely to ease tension between t...