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June 21, 2017 4:15 PM

Flash flood warning as Tropical Storm Cindy heads towards US

In US. weather monitors warned on Wednesday of tornados and potentially deadly flash floods as Tropical Storm Cindy in the Gulf of Mexico headed towards the coasts of Louisiana and Texas. The storm packed winds of 95 kilometers per hour, and was moving towards the northwest at 11 kilometers per hour...

June 21, 2017 2:13 PM

Pak court asks police to produce converted Hindu girl tomorrow

A top court in Pakistan's southern Sindh province has ordered police to produce before it tomorrow a Hindu girl who was abducted, forcibly converted and married off to a Muslim man.<br/><br/>Satram Das Meghwar, through Advocate filed a case in the Sindh High Court against conversion...

June 21, 2017 2:13 PM

Six policemen killed in Afghanistan IED blast

In Afghanistan, at least six policemen have been killed after their vehicle was hit by an IED in the country's southern Helmand province. <br/><br/>TOLO news reported that the policemen from the Helmand highway battalion were killed in Popalzai area of the province on Tuesday. <b...

June 21, 2017 2:12 PM

China failed to rein in North Korea nuclear program: US Prez Trump

US President Donald Trump has said Chinese efforts to persuade North Korea to rein in its nuclear program have failed. <br/><br/>He said this a tweet. Trump has hardened his rhetoric against North Korea following the death of a US student after returning from captivity in North Korea in ...

June 21, 2017 11:50 AM

US jet shoots down Iranian-made drone in Syria

A US jet has shot down an Iranian-made drone operated by forces backing the Syrian government in the south of the country. <br/><br/>The drone was thought to be armed and threatening US-led coalition troops on the ground. But Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the action...

June 21, 2017 11:40 AM

Saudi king names son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince

Saudi King Salman today named his son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince. This completes a gradual removal of powers from the previous prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who has been fired. <br/><br/>According to a royal decree issued by the official Saudi Press Agency, Mohammed bin Salman, was...

June 21, 2017 8:55 AM

Belgium probes Brussels railway station bomber's identity

Belgian counter-terrorism police are probing the identity of a suspected suicide bomber shot dead by troops guarding a Brussels railway station after he set off explosives that failed to injure anyone.<br/><br/>Prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt told reporters that they consider this a terrori...

June 21, 2017 8:51 AM

Pro-IS militants hold students hostage after storming school in Philippines

Pro-Islamic State militants stormed a school in the southern Philippines early today and are holding several students hostage, police said, on the same island where fighting between government troops and Islamists has entered its fifth week.<br/><br/>A police report said about 300 armed ...

June 21, 2017 7:58 AM

Dhaka all set to celebrate 3rd International Yoga Day today

Dhaka is all set to celebrate the 3rd International Yoga Day today in a big way. The main programme conducted by the Indian High Commission will be held at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in which over 3000 people are expected to participate. <br/><br/>Bangladesh Ministry of Sports and ...

June 21, 2017 7:56 AM

Pakistan begins fencing its border with Afghanistan

Pakistan has begun to fence its over 2,400-kilometre-long, porous border with Afghanistan. <br/><br/>Pak Army on Tuesday said the phased fencing of entire Pakistan-Afghanistan border has commenced. <br/><br/>It said in the first phase high infiltration-prone border areas in B...

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