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February 20, 2017 8:18 PM
India today discussed several issues, including proposed restrictions on American work visa and intellectual property rights (IPRs), with the visiting US lawmakers.<br/><br/>These issues were deliberated upon during a 45-minute long meeting between Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala&...
February 20, 2017 8:00 PM
Turkish warplanes launched air strikes against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq today, killing 34 militants in two separate bombardments. <br/><br/>The strikes targeted the militants in Iraq's Zap region. PKK militants, who have fought a three-decade insur...
February 20, 2017 7:51 PM
Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar today met Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo today and discussed bilateral relations and other issues of mutual interest. <br/><br/>Sources said, both sides discussed growing economic ties between the t...
February 20, 2017 7:47 PM
Kaci Kullmann Five, the Chairwoman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee which selects the Peace Prize laureates, has died after a long illness. She was 65. Kullmann was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014 and underwent treatment. But her condition worsened and she was forced to cancel several appearanc...
February 20, 2017 5:01 PM
A famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan, the first to be announced in any part of the world in six years. The government and the United Nations report that some one lakh people are facing starvation, with a million more on the brink of famine. A combination of civil war and an economic co...
February 20, 2017 2:54 PM
In Somalia, at least 39 people have been killed and about 27 injured in a car bomb blast in the capital, Mogadishu. The car blew up in the city's southern Madina district ripping through shops and food stalls yesterday. <br/><br/>This is the first major attack in the capital since t...
February 20, 2017 2:25 PM
In Somalia, at least 39 people have been killed and about 27 injured in a car bomb blast in the capital, Mogadishu. The car blew up in the city's southern Madina district ripping through shops and food stalls yesterday. <br/><br/>This is the first major attack in the capital since t...
February 20, 2017 2:13 PM
Cambodian Parliament today amended a law to stop anyone convicted of an offense from running for office. Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party voted to change the 1998 election law to ban parties that engage in activities that include incitement, promoting secession or a...
February 20, 2017 2:03 PM
China says India has done a better job than China in promoting satellite launch technology. Zhang Yonghe, Director of the New Technology Department of the Shanghai Engineering Centre for Microsatellites, said in Beijing that the launch indicated that India can send commercial satellites into space a...
February 20, 2017 2:03 PM
New Zealand's High Court has ruled that Kim Dotcom is eligible for extradition to the United States over online piracy allegations. In its decision, the High Court upheld an earlier District Court ruling that there is overwhelming evidence to extradite Dotcom and his three co-accused. The decis...
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