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Bomb kills eight soldiers in PakistanReuters, QuettaA roadside bomb killed eight soldiers in a remote district in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Baluchistan, a government official...
International
UK to seek ‘temporary customs union’ after Brexit
AFP, London :Britain will seek a “temporary customs union” with the European Union after Brexit, the government said Tuesday as it prepared to publish its...
Iran can quit nuclear deal if US keeps adding sanctions: Rouhani
AFP, Tehran :President Hassan Rouhani warned on Tuesday that Iran could abandon its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers within hours if the United States...
Conflicts in Syria, Iraq far from over despite IS setbacks
AFP, Baghdad :Despite the recapture of swathes of territory from the Islamic State group, the conflicts in Iraq and Syria are far from over as...
Kenya’s Odinga calls strike as he mulls options
AFP, Nairobi :Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has urged his supporters to stay home from work Monday to mourn those killed in protests over what...
White House defends Trump’s response to Virginia violence
AFP, Bedminster :The White House on Sunday struggled to defuse the growing criticism of President Donald Trump’s initial failure to explicitly condemn white supremacists for...
2 killed in helicopter crash in Virginia
Xinhua, Washington :Two people were killed after a helicopter crashed Saturday afternoon seven miles (11 kilometers) southwest of Charlottesville, in the state of Virginia.The state...
FBI probes Charlottesville deadly car ramming
AFP, Charlottesville :The FBI said it has opened a civil rights investigation into the circumstances that led a driver to plow a car into a...
6.6-Magnitude quake jolts Western Indonesia
Xinhua, Jakarta :A shallow earthquake measuring 6.6 Richter scale jolted Bengkulu province in western parts of Indonesia on Sunday, but it was not potential for...
8 security personnel among 15 killed in Pakistan’s Quetta blast
Xinhua, Islamabad :At least 15 people, including eight security personnel, were killed and 30 others injured in a bomb blast that hit a security forces’...
Australia’s Crown says all staff held in China now free
AFP, Sydney :Australia’s Crown Resorts said Monday that China had released all of the casino group’s employees who were detained as part of a gambling...
Landslide in north India leaves 46 dead
Al Jazeera News :At least 46 people have been killed after a massive landslide trapped two buses and washed away houses in northern India’s Himalayan...