Afghan govt protests against US deal to free Taliban prisoners
Reuters, Kabul :Afghanistan’s government protested against a US deal to free five high-ranking Taliban militants in exchange for a US soldier arguing the transfer of...
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Modi greets Telangana people
IANS, New Delhi :Assuring his full support to India’s 29th state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said om Monday Telangana was born due to years of...
Minor girl gang-raped in WB
NDTV.com, Kolkata :A Class 6 student in West Bengal’s Birbhum district was allegedly gang-raped by three students of her school on Thursday.The police have arrested...
3 dead after Scottish car rally collisions
BBC Online :Three people have been killed and several are seriously injured after cars collided with spectators in two incidents at the Jim Clark Rally...
Thai troops deployed to prevent anti-coup protest
BBC Online :Thousands of police and soldiers have been deployed around the Thai capital, Bangkok, to try to prevent anti-coup protesters from gathering.Parts of the...
India arrests 3rd suspect in gang rape of 2 teens
AP, Lucknow, India :Police arrested a third suspect Saturday in the gang rape and slaying of two teenage cousins found hanging from a tree in...
China denounces Japan, US over ‘provocative’ speeches
BBC Online :China has denounced the Japanese PM and US defence secretary for making “provocative” speeches against China at an Asian security forum in Singapore.Chinese...
Assad runs again for president
Reuters, Beirut :It was not so long ago that Bashar al-Assad’s enemies thought he was finished.In the summer of 2012, the rebels were not just...
UK ‘threatens to quit EU over presidency’ : Spiegel
BBC Online :German magazine Der Spiegel says British PM David Cameron warned that the UK could leave the EU if Luxembourg ex-PM Jean-Claude Juncker became...
Iran Guards commander ‘killed in Syria’
AFP, Tehran :A commander from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has been killed in Syria, media said Saturday, a disclosure that runs counter to Tehran’s insistence it...
Egyptians vote for president after years of turmoil
AFP, Cairo :Egyptians voted for a new president Monday, with the ex-army chief who overthrew the country’s first democratically elected leader and crushed his movement...
Six rapes in Delhi every day
TNN, New Delhi :Delhi Police figures yet again show that the city is unsafe for women. Data of the first four months of 2014 show...