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October 5, 2017 8:48 PM

Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel prize in literature

British author Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. <br/><br/>The novelist was praised by the Swedish Academy as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world". <br/&g...

October 5, 2017 8:14 PM

12 killed in suicide attack at Sufi shrine in Pakistan

In Pakistan, a suicide attacker today blew himself up at a Sufi shrine packed with devotees in troubled Balochistan province, killing at least 12 people and injuring eight others. <br/><br/>Police officials said the attacker tried to enter the Dargah Fatehpur in the Jhal Magsi district o...

October 5, 2017 5:07 PM

Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel prize in literature

British author Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. <br/><br/>The novelist was praised by the Swedish Academy as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world". <br/&g...

October 5, 2017 4:09 PM

US, India working to turn big words into pragmatic realities: Jim Mattis

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis today said India is a force for stability in South Asia and India-US political ties can be tightened together. During a Congressional hearing on Afghanistan, Mattis told members of House Armed Services that India is a nation coming into their own, economically, as a g...

October 5, 2017 2:00 PM

Catalonia moves to declare independence from Spain on Monday

Catalonia will move on Monday to declare independence from Spain after holding a banned referendum. Mireia Boya, a Catalan lawmaker from the pro-independence Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) party, said a declaration of independence would follow a parliamentary session on Monday to evaluate the results...

October 5, 2017 1:59 PM

Trump ready for any steps if Pak doesn't mend its ways: Mattis

US says, Pakistan has a last chance to give up using terrorism to further its goals before Washington initiates action against it. Responding to questions by members of the House Armed Services Committee, during a Congressional testimony on South Asia and Afghanistan, yesterday, Defence Secretary Ja...

October 5, 2017 1:58 PM

Iraqi forces retake centre of IS bastion Hawija

Iraqi forces today said , they had retaken the centre of Islamic State group stronghold Hawija and are pushing forward in their assault on one of the last IS enclaves in the country. The Operation's commander, Lieutenant General, Abdel Amir Yarallah, said troops, police and paramilitaries liber...

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