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February 18, 2017 8:49 AM

India regrets that UN has not been able to define terrorism

India has lamented that the UN has been unable to define terrorism at a time when radical terror factories like Islamic State and their surrogates like Lashkar-e-Taiba are challenging the nation state and asked the national governments to make policies for sustaining peace.<br/><br/>Addr...

February 18, 2017 8:02 AM

Powerful Pacific storm enters into Southern & Central California

In the United States, a powerful Pacific storm blew into Southern and Central California with wind-driven heavy rains, triggering rescues, calls for evacuations, toppling trees and power lines and disrupting travel and outdoor events.<br/><br/>With the storm feeding on an atmospheric riv...

February 18, 2017 7:53 AM

Leaders of IS terror group fleeing their Syrian stronghold of Raqa: US

The US has said that leaders of the Islamic State terror group are fleeing their Syrian stronghold of Raqa, in the face of the Arab-Kurd offensive backed by the international coalition. Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told reporters that a lot of their administrators and bureaucrats now are be...

February 18, 2017 5:02 AM

Pakistan army claims to kill 100 terrorists after shrine bombing

Pakistan Army claims to have killed more than 100 suspected terrorists in retaliation to an Islamic State terror group's suicide bombing at a crowded Sufi shrine in Sindh province that claimed 88 lives. <br/><br/>The media wing of the army said in Islamabad that a sizeable number of...

February 18, 2017 1:01 AM

Malaysia rejects North Korean demand to hand over body of Kim Jong-Nam

<br/><br/>Malaysia today rejected Pyongyang's demand that it hand over the body of Kim Jong-Nam, the assassinated half-brother of North Korea's leader, saying it would only be released when his family provide DNA samples. Selangor state police Chief Abdul Samah Mat said so far ...

February 18, 2017 12:57 AM

Thousands of Iraqis turn out for silent protest

<br/>Thousands of Iraqis, mostly supporters of cleric Moqtada Sadr, held a silent protest in central Baghdad today, a week after a rally demanding electoral reform turned violent.<br/><br/>They gathered on Tahrir Square where on February 11 the security forces used rubber-coated bu...

February 18, 2017 12:52 AM

Pakistan army claims to kill 100 terrorists after shrine bombing

Pakistan Army today claimed to have killed more than 100 suspected terrorists in retaliation to an Islamic State suicide bombing at a crowded Sufi shrine in Sindh province that claimed 88 lives.<br/><br/>The media wing of the army said in Islamabad that a "sizeable" number of s...

February 18, 2017 12:46 AM

Kazakhstan avalanche kills 7 soldiers during military exercise

<br/>In Kazakhstan, seven soldiers have died after being hit by an avalanche during a military exercise in southern region today.<br/><br/><br/>Ruslan Imankulov, spokesman for Kazakhstan's emergency situations committee, told AFP that the soldiers were participating in a...

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