Israel aircraft hit Gaza for first time since August truce
AFP, Gaza City :Israeli aircraft hit Gaza for the first time since an August truce ended 50 days of war after a rocket hit the...
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Russia to boost nuclear strategic forces: Putin
AP, Moscow :Boasting about the Russian military’s capability, President Vladimir Putin vowed Friday to continue an ambitious weapons modernisation programme with a particular emphasis on...
Pakistan massacre survivors vow to defy Taliban
AFP, Islamabad :Students grieving for their classmates massacred by the Pakistani Taliban Thursday vowed to defy the militants and return to school as soon as...
1m wounded, diseases on spread in Syria: WHO
Reuters, Beirut :One million people have been wounded during Syria’s civil war and diseases are spreading as regular supplies of medicine fail to reach patients,...
Sierra Leone’s leading doctor dies of Ebola
Reuters, Freetown :Sierra Leone’s leading doctor died of Ebola on Thursday, hours after the arrival in the country of an experimental drug that could have...
Japan, US extend deadline for new Asian security guidelines
Reuters, Tokyo :Japan and the United States on Friday extended by six months a deadline to revise guidelines for their security cooperation in order to...
Sonia Gandhi hospitalised for infection
AP, New Delhi :India’s opposition Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi was hospitalized Thursday for treatment of lower respiratory tract infection, a party official said.Gandhi was...
EU leaders threaten long confrontation with Russia
Reuters, Brussels :European Union leaders warned Moscow they were ready exercise their combined muscle over the long haul in a confrontation with an economically wounded...
Abbas supports more talks on UN bid
AP, Jerusalem :Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday that he supports further negotiations on a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution that sets a 2017 deadline...
220 journalists in prison worldwide
Dawn.com, Washington :More than 200 journalists are imprisoned for their work for the third consecutive year, reflecting a global surge in authoritarianism, says a report...
Two IS militants killed; more US troops going to Iraq
AP, Washington :Two senior Islamic State group leaders were killed in U.S. and coalition airstrikes in northern Iraq over the last week, U.S. officials said...
US-led Iraqi Kurds siege more areas
AFP, Washington :Kurdish forces backed up by US-led warplanes have recaptured a large area in Iraq near the Syrian border in an offensive this week...