Valdimir Putin keen to solve Japan island row
AFP, Russia :Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was keen to resolve a territorial dispute with Japan ahead of talks Friday with Prime Minister Shinzo...
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Turkey says clears IS Kurdish force from part of northern Syria
Reuters, Ankara :Turkey has swept Islamic State militants and Kurdish YPG militia from an area of northern Syria, but Syrian Kurdish forces have still not...
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Turkey removes 8,000 security personnel AFP, AnkaraTurkey removed nearly 8,000 security personnel from duty late Thursday, according to state media, as the purge continued of...
Campaigners blame Russia over cluster bomb use in Syria
AFP, Geneva :Evidence is growing that Russia is behind a significant increase in the use of cluster bombs in Syria, campaigners said Thursday.A coalition of...
Australian senator compared to an ‘angry prostitute’
BBC Online :An outspoken Australian senator has compared her conservative counterpart to an “angry prostitute” before apologising to sex workers.Independent Jacqui Lambie has a history...
Donald Trump: Mexico will pay for wall, ‘100pc’
BBC Online :US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has insisted Mexico will pay for a border wall “100%”, in a major immigration speech.He told a...
Michel Temer sworn in as new President
Al Jazeera News :Michel Temer, Brazil’s former vice president, has been sworn in as the country’s new president, a few hours after the country’s Senate...
More than 34,000 cases of rape reported in 2015: India
Al Jazeera News :At least 34,651 cases of rape were reported across India last year, statistics released by the country’s National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)...
After lifetime with the poor, Mother Teresa speeds to sainthood
Reuters, Vatican City :Affectionately called the “saint of the gutters” during her lifetime, Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be made an official saint of the...
PIA pilots make history by becoming first pair of sisters to fly Boeing-777s concurrently
Dawn.com, Karachi :Two Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) pilots made history by becoming the first pair of sisters in Pakistan to fly Boeing-777 airplanes at the...
IS leader Adnani killed: Russia
BBC Online :A Russian air strike in Syria killed the chief strategist of so-called Islamic State (IS), the defence ministry in Moscow has said. The...
World concerned about Rohingyas, Ban Ki-Moon tells Myanmar
AP, Naypyitaw :UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Myanmar today that the world is very concerned about the tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who...