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Pakistan's army chief leaves for Kabul 27 Dec 2015 - 09:45 am

Islamabad: Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif Sunday left for Afghanistan on day-long visit to hold talks with top Afghan leadership...

Taliban denies sharing IS intelligence with Russia 27 Dec 2015 - 09:35 am

Taliban denies any negotiations with Russia to eliminate IS Kabul: The Afghan Taliban has officially denied any negotiations or exchange of information with...

Turkey arrests 10 suspected ISIS members 27 Dec 2015 - 09:33 am

Ankara: Turkish security forces have arrested 10 persons, including four foreigners, in Elbeyli town of Kilis, Southern Turkey, while sneaking into Turkey from...

Pakistan not expecting much from January talks: Aziz 27 Dec 2015 - 09:31 am

File photo of Pakistan's foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz said it would...

Odd-even: Vadra says VIP exemption hypocrisy; BJP, AAP slam him 27 Dec 2015 - 09:24 am

File photo of Robert Vadra New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra on Saturday criticised the Delhi government's move to spare...

CPI-M plenum aiming to strengthen organisation begins on Sunday 27 Dec 2015 - 09:19 am

Some of the top CPI-M leaders meet before the five-day plenum Kolkata: Months before the crucial assembly polls in its erstwhile citadels West...

Three missing in Myanmar jade mine landslide: officials 27 Dec 2015 - 09:19 am

Yangon: Rescuers in northern Myanmar Sunday said they were confident only a handful of people are missing in a jade mine landslide, refuting...

Death toll at least 7 in Texas storms that spawned tornadoes 27 Dec 2015 - 09:01 am

DALLAS: Tornadoes swept through the Dallas area after dark on Saturday leaving substantial damage and at least seven people dead either from the...

Myanmar army chief asks Thailand for death sentence review 27 Dec 2015 - 08:34 am

Yangon: Myanmar's army chief has called on Thailand to review the sentencing of two countrymen to death for murdering a pair of British...

Tornado kills four near Dallas, Texas: US media 27 Dec 2015 - 08:32 am

Washington: Four people were killed when a tornado on Saturday ripped through Garland, Texas, near the city of Dallas, US media reported. The...

Czech leader calls migrant wave in Europe an 'organised invasion' 27 Dec 2015 - 08:29 am

Prague: Czech President Milos Zeman on Saturday called the current wave of refugees to Europe "an organised invasion", adding young men from Syria...

Boko Haram kills at least 14 in Christmas Day attack in Nigeria: vigilantes 27 Dec 2015 - 08:24 am

Women and children sit at the army headquaters after being rescued from Boko Haram camps in Maiduguri, Borno State, in northeastern Nigeria, on...

Jetliner evacuated in New York after smoke reported 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Representative image By Kevin Murphy Passengers and crew on a Spirit Airlines jetliner parked at a gate at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in...

IS claims attack on Ahmadi mosque in Bangladesh 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Bangladeshi men carry the body of a man killed in a suicide bomb blast at a Ahmadiyya mosque during Friday prayers in Rajshahi,...

Breakaway Muslim rebels kill nine people in southern Philippines 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

File photo MANILA: A breakaway Muslim rebel group killed nine civilians in the southern Philippines in a series of attacks on Christmas eve,...

Muslim prayer hall attacked in French Corsica island 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Attackers smashed windows and ransacked the Muslim prayer room in Ajaccio. AFP Paris: Demonstrators attacked a Muslim prayer hall and attempted to burn...