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Yoshitha Rajapaksa, son of former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa. (Photo: AP)World
Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s son arrested

Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s 27-year-old son was arrested on Saturday along with four other...

31 Jan 2016 3:45 AM IST

Facebook blocks unlicensed gun salesWorld
Facebook blocks unlicensed gun sales

Facebook has banned people using the social network for unlicensed gun sales after pressure from anti-gun violence...

31 Jan 2016 3:43 AM IST

Amazon delivers monks as role of Japan temples fadesWorld
Amazon delivers monks as role of Japan temples fades

In Japan, where communal ties to local Buddhist temples are fading, families have in recent years been able to go online...

31 Jan 2016 3:42 AM IST

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33 Greece-bound migrants drown off Turkish coast

Turkish authorities put the body of a child into a body bag on a beach in Bademli district of Canakkale province on...

31 Jan 2016 2:16 AM IST

Marshalls hope to sue India, Pakistan over nukesWorld
Marshalls hope to sue India, Pakistan over nukes

The tiny Marshall Islands will seek in March to persuade the UN’s highest court to take up a lawsuit against...

31 Jan 2016 2:06 AM IST

US labels 7 Hillary Clinton email chains top secretWorld
US labels 7 Hillary Clinton email chains top secret

“Top secret” material was sent through Hillary Clinton’s private email server during her tenure as...

31 Jan 2016 2:04 AM IST

Main Syria Opposition goes to Geneva for thorny peace talksWorld
Main Syria Opposition goes to Geneva for thorny peace talks

Representatives of Syria’s largest mainstream Opposition umbrella group were set to arrive in Geneva on Saturday...

31 Jan 2016 2:03 AM IST

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif listens during a debate hosted by the Associated Press. (Photo: AP)World
Nawaz Sharif: Pathankot report to be made public

Pakistan Prime Minister admits terrorist attack on Pathankot airbase hurt talks with India

31 Jan 2016 12:23 AM IST

Serena Williams (left) and Angelique Kerber during the awards ceremony in Melbourne on Saturday. (Photo: AFP)World
Out of House, British MPs may have to follow Sharia law

MPs and peers were told this week that they are likely to have to move out of the Palace of Westminster entirely for at...

31 Jan 2016 12:14 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: PTI)World
Pathankot probe: Our responsibility to find if Pak soil was used, says...

Sharif vowed that Pakistan would go to any length to uncover the alleged use of its soil in the January 2 attack.

30 Jan 2016 4:36 PM IST

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UN insists on global aid in Lanka rights probe

Civil society organisations criticised Sirisena as backtracking on the resolution which was also cosponsored by Sri...

30 Jan 2016 4:33 PM IST

Syrians wait for an aid convoy in the besieged town of Madaya in the countryside of Damascus. (Photo: AP)World
16 more starve to death in Syria's Madaya: MSF

Several dozen more residents of the town are in 'danger of death' because of severe malnutrition, the humanitarian group...

30 Jan 2016 2:42 PM IST

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