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February 8, 2017 8:34 PM

Pakistan's Punjab govt imposes 'complete ban' on Basant festival

Pakistan's Punjab province Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has imposed a complete ban on Basant, a seasonal festival celebrated by Punjabis of all faiths to mark the commencement of the spring season. <br/><br/>In a message posted on his official Twitter account last night, he said th...

February 8, 2017 7:38 PM

South African's Jacob Zuma deploys troops to state address

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has ordered the deployment of about 440 troops to maintain law and order in parliament for his annual state of the nation address today. <br/><br/>Opposition parties have condemned the decision as a declaration of war. Previous addresses by Mr Zum...

February 8, 2017 6:47 PM

Brexit trigger bill set for final vote in Parliament

The UK Parliament is set to discuss and vote on a crucial bill which will give Prime Minister Theresa May the authority to officially trigger Brexit and start negotiations for leaving the 28-member European Union.<br/><br/>The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill will have it...

February 8, 2017 3:45 PM

Somalia's al-Shabaab kill four in hotel attack in Puntland region

In Somalia, four guards of a hotel killed when the militants stormed the International Village Hotel in the port city of Bosasso yesterday. The Governor of Bari region,Yusuf Mohamed, said three al-Shabab fighters stormed the hotel in the capital of the semi-autonomous Puntland region and killed four...

February 8, 2017 3:43 PM

Sri Lanka is on right path of reconciliation with minority ethnic groups

Sri Lanka has said that it is on right path of reconciliation with minority ethnic groups and addressing of war crimes, after being hounded by three decades of LTTE conflict. <br/><br/>Foreign minister Mangala Samarweera told a group of foreign journalists last evening that his country w...

February 8, 2017 1:51 PM

China says both sides will lose from conflict with US

China has played down the prospects of conflict with the United States over the South China Sea in the wake of aggressive rhetoric by Donald Trump's administration. Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on a visit to Australia that war would benefit no one and both sides cannot afford it. <br/>&l...

February 8, 2017 1:38 PM

Saudi Arabia deports 39000 Pakistanis in 4 months

Saudi Arabia says, more than 39,000 Pakistanis have been deported from the Kingdom in the past four months. Quoting Security sources, the Saudi newspaper 'Saudi Gazette' said that the the deportations were made due to involvement of several Pakistani nationals in some terrorist actions orc...

February 8, 2017 11:21 AM

Syria conflict: Rebel-held Idlib hit by deadly air strikes

In Syria, at least 23 people, many of them civilians, have been killed in air strikes on a rebel-held city in north-western part of the country. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group said that several multi-storey buildings in Idlib were levelled in the attacks includi...

February 8, 2017 8:58 AM

Bill introduced in US senate to cut legal immigration by half

In United States, two top Senators have introduced a legislation in the Senate, proposing to cut the level of immigrants to the country by half. The RAISE Act, introduced by Republican senator Tom Cotton and Democrat David Perdue has proposed to reduce the number of green card or Legal Permanent Res...

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