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1000 boat migrants rescued off Italy coastReuters, Rome Some 1,000 migrants were saved from leaky boats in the central Mediterranean on Friday and one person...
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Modi woos Punjab voters with pledge to annul Indus Waters Treaty
Dawn.com, New Delhi :Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, visiting the poll-bound Punjab on Friday, wooed voters there with a promise to abrogate the Indus Waters...
No time to create walls between nations: Rouhani
Reuters, Dubai :Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday it was no time to build walls between nations and criticized steps towards cancelling world trade...
Malala `heartbroken` by Trump order on refugees
AFP, New York :Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani student activist and Nobel Peace laureate, said Friday she was “heartbroken” by Donald Trump’s order on refugees and...
Trump poised to seek new military options for defeating IS
AP, Washington :President Donald Trump is expected to ask the Pentagon for ways to accelerate the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria,...
British PM will open Brexit plan to MPs
AFP, London :British Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday she would publish her Brexit plan in parliament so that MPs can scrutinise it, but insisted...
New Israeli settlement plan taken in support of Trump
AFP, Jerusalem :Israel has moved immediately to take advantage of US President Donald Trump’s pledges of support, announcing a major settlement expansion that deeply concerns...
Chile`s worst wildfires destroy town, deaths now 10
AP, Santiago :Flames from one of Chile’s worst wildfires completely consumed the town of Santa Olga as the number of the dead from the blazes...
Mexico condemns US border wall tax proposal
BBC Online :Mexico has condemned a US suggestion that it may impose a 20% tax on Mexican imports to pay for President Donald Trump’s planned...
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More senior State Department officials step downAFP, Washington US President Donald Trump has accepted the resignations of several senior State Department officials, the department said...
US, UK can lead world again : Theresa May
BBC Online :Theresa May is to vow to renew the UK’s special relationship with the US “for this new age” as she prepares to meet...
Mexicans are lashing out at their own govt over Trump’s border plans
Business Insider :After months of talk during the presidential campaign and in the lead up to his inauguration, Donald Trump appears set to take action...