16 Pak migrants feared dead in Libya boat capsize
AP : As many as 16 Pakistanis are believed to be among the 65 illegal migrants who died after a boat capsized off the coast of Zawiya in northwestern Libya over the weekend. Prime...
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Afghanistan bomb blast, kills 5
Agency : A bomb blast has killed at least five people and wounded seven in northeastern Afghanistan, local police report.The blast took place at 8:35am (04:05 GMT) on Tuesday near a Kabul Bank branch...
Hamas tells Trump: Israel must respect ceasefire to get captives home
Al Jazeera : A Hamas official has said Israeli captives can only be brought home from Gaza if Israel respects a fragile ceasefire, dismissing the “language of threats” after US President Donald Trump said...
Trump serious about Canada becoming 51st state
Agency : President Donald Trump said he is serious about wanting Canada to become the 51st state in an interview that aired Sunday during the Super Bowl preshow.“Yeah it is,” Trump told Fox News...
Over 600 arrested for working illegally in UK
AFP : UK immigration enforcement teams made over 600 arrests in January, a 73 percent increase on the same period a year ago, as part of the new Labour government’s plan to tackle undocumented...
China’s tit-for-tat tariffs on US take effect
Agency : China’s tit-for-tat import taxes on some American goods came into effect on Monday, as the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies escalates and US President Donald Trump threatens to hit...
‘No-one has the power’ to remove Palestinians from Gaza: Erdogan
AFP : Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday no one had the power to remove Gazans from their war-devastated homeland, dismissing Donald Trump’s plan to expel the Palestinians and let the US take...
Saudi rejects of Israeli comments on displacement of Palestinians
Arab News : Saudi Arabia on Sunday reiterated its categorical rejection of statements regarding the displacement of the Palestinian people from their land, particularly those made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.The Kingdom’s Foreign...
Kim slams US-S.Korea-Japan partnership
AP : North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said an elevated U.S. security partnership with South Korea and Japan poses a grave threat to his country and vowed to further bolster his nuclear weapons...