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US seeks to prepare Africa for shifting terror threatWorld
US seeks to prepare Africa for shifting terror threat

African forces began a US-led counter-terrorism training programme in Senegal on Monday amid what a US commander said...

10 Feb 2016 6:00 AM IST

Syrian border camps overflowWorld
Syrian border camps overflow

Riyadh open to sending special forces into Syria

10 Feb 2016 5:58 AM IST

NHCR chief Zeid Raad Al Hussein (left) shakes hands with Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe ahead. — AFPWorld
‘Climate change damage to extend for 10,000 years’

The damaging climate consequences of carbon emissions will grow and persist for millennia without a dramatic new global...

10 Feb 2016 5:56 AM IST

‘Lanka must face demons of past’World
‘Lanka must face demons of past’

Sri Lanka must “confront and defeat the demons of its past”, the UN human rights chief said Tuesday at the...

10 Feb 2016 5:55 AM IST

Peshawar school: Exceution of 2 attackersWorld
Peshawar school: Exceution of 2 attackers

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the execution of four men convicted by military courts for their...

10 Feb 2016 5:52 AM IST

Pakistan clears Hindu Marriage BillWorld
Pakistan clears Hindu Marriage Bill

After decades of delay and inaction, the Hindu minority community in Pakistan will soon have a marriage law as a...

10 Feb 2016 5:51 AM IST

Top Taliban leader dies in QuettaWorld
Top Taliban leader dies in Quetta

A senior Afghan Taliban member has died in Pakistan after an illness, militant sources said Tuesday.

10 Feb 2016 5:49 AM IST

North Korea restarts plutonium plant for nukes: US spyWorld
North Korea restarts plutonium plant for nukes: US spy

Obama, Abe, Park support UN resolution on Pyongyang

10 Feb 2016 5:49 AM IST

The body of Nepali Congress Party president Sushil Koirala is covered in flowers in Kathmandu on Tuesday. -AFPWorld
Former Nepali Prime Minister Sushil Koirala’s death poses...

Ex-PM’s death also presents succession problems in his Nepali Congress party as he never married

10 Feb 2016 5:46 AM IST

Maulana Masood Azhar clean chit puts Indo-Pak ties to testWorld
Maulana Masood Azhar clean chit puts Indo-Pak ties to test

Pakistan and India’s fragile ties were once again put to the test as New Delhi refused to accept Islamabad’s...

10 Feb 2016 5:24 AM IST

WHO in critical need of healing itselfWorld
WHO in critical need of healing itself

Health workers carry a body of a person that they suspected died form the Ebola virus at a new graveyard on the...

10 Feb 2016 2:14 AM IST

Pakistan military seeks to protect Chinese investmentWorld
Pakistan military seeks to protect Chinese investment

A heavy police presence, guarded convoys, new checkpoints and troop reinforcements have turned parts of the southern...

10 Feb 2016 2:12 AM IST

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