Iranian, Indian cities ranked worst for air pollution
Reuters, Geneva :India is home to four of the five cities in the world with the worst air pollution, the World Health Organization said on...
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US to switch on European missile shield despite Russian alarm
Reuters, Bucharest :The United States’ European missile defense shield goes live on Thursday almost a decade after Washington proposed protecting NATO from Iranian rockets and...
Brazil Senate set to vote on Rousseff impeachment
AFP, Brasília :Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was only hours from possibly being suspended at the start of an impeachment trial Wednesday in a political crisis...
Hiroshima hopes Obama visit will revitalise anti-nuclear push
AFP, Tokyo : Barack Obama’s trip to Hiroshima this month is a chance for him to see how the city suffered after its atomic bombing, and...
27.8 millon people internally displaced last year: Report
AP, Amman :A major aid agency said Wednesday that 27.8 million people around the world were internally displaced by conflicts and natural disasters last year,...
2,000 Indian citizens, entities named in new Panama leaks
Dawn.com, New Delhi :Nearly 2,000 individuals, entities and addresses with links to India figure in the latest edition of Panama Papers giving information on offshore...
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Quake hits Tibet, causing landslides, 60 hurtAP, BeijingA shallow magnitude-5.5 earthquake struck the mountainous region of Tibet on Wednesday, injuring 60 people, collapsing houses and...
Tired of waiting, Greece’s migrants turn to business to survive
Reuters, Idomeni :Within sight of a razor wire fence guarded by Macedonian police, 35-year-old Iraqi migrant Saima Hodep rolls dough with an old steel water...
Panama Papers affair widens as database goes online
The Panama Papers affair has widened, with a huge database of documents relating to more than 200,000 offshore accounts posted online.The database became accessible from...
259 Pakistanis named
Dawn.com, KARACHI:Names of 259 Pakistanis with links to offshore companies have surfaced in one of the world’s biggest ever data leaks through an online searchable...
Israel’s blockade keeps Gaza in the dark
Al Jazeera News :The electricity crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip affects every facet of daily life, from making bread, to obtaining medical treatment, to...