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Landslide buries Nepal villages; 21 dead

Landslide buries Nepal villages; 21 dead

AFP, KATHMANDU: Landslides triggered by heavy rains have left at least 21 dead and dozens missing in northeastern Nepal, prompting officials to evacuate…

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Gunmen kill 4 cops in Baluchistan AFP, QUETTA: Gunmen on motorcycles shot dead four policemen in Pakistan's separatist-insurgency wracked southwestern Baluchistan province yesterday, officials said. The shootings took place in the Pashtunabad neighbourhood of the provincial capital Quetta as the…

Obama approves 450 trainers for Iraq army

AFP, WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday approved the deployment of 450 more US military trainers to Iraq, a cautious bid to reverse gains by the Islamic State group. The White House said the forces will join an already 3,100-strong mission to "train, advise and assist" the…

China's president  meets  Myanmar’s Suu Kyi  

AFP, BEIJING: Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing yesterday, state media said, during her closely watched first visit that China hopes will establish a line of communication with the influential opposition leader. Suu Kyi met Xi at Beijing's Great Hall of the…

Australia hosts anti-jihadist summit

AFP, SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott yesterday urged Asia-Pacific nations to help fight jihadist groups as he opened a regional summit on the issue with a warning that Islamic State has global ambitions. Abbott told the conference -- attended by ministers and representatives of 30 nations…

Nigeria holds talks on Boko Haram  

AFP, ABUJA: Nigeria's new President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday held talks with regional leaders on Boko Haram, with hopes a new fighting force will help crush the Islamists after six years of violence. Heads of state and government from Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Benin jet in to Nigeria's capital,…

Pope asks Putin for  peace in Ukraine

AFP, ROME , Italy: Russian President Vladimir Putin used a trip to Italy on Wednesday to press his case against international sanctions and was urged by Pope Francis to make a "sincere effort" for peace in Ukraine. After telling Italian premier Matteo Renzi that Western sanctions imposed over…

Thai palace official held for treason

AFP, BANGKOK: A senior Thai palace aide who served the now disgraced ex-wife of the Crown Prince was arrested yesterday under the country's controversial lese majeste law, part of an ongoing probe that has decimated the former princess's family. Montri Sotangkul, 53, was a member of the household…

UK schoolboy on work experience discovers new planet

A teenager on work experience discovered a new planet 1,000 light years away, The Telegraph reports. Tom Wagg was 15 when he spotted a tiny dip in the light of a distant star during his week-long placement at Keele University, Staffordshire, UK. But it has taken astonomers two years of further research…

Al-Qaeda kills 20 Druze in Syria

AFP, BEIRUT: At least 20 members of Syria's Druze minority have been killed in an unprecedented shoot-out with Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front in northwestern Syria, a monitor said yesterday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the deaths came Wednesday in the village of Qalb Lawzah in…
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