United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “looks forward to” working with US President-elect Joe Biden, according to the UN chief’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric. Guterres “was pleased to speak (over phone) …
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Islamabad; At least 13 people were killed and 15 others injured in a passenger van-bus collision in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Monday. The accident took place when the van hit the …
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New York: Joe Biden, who is to become US President in January, has picked Indian-American Neera Tanden, a controversial close confidante of the Clintons, to head the powerful White House Office …
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Kabul: At least 30 policemen were killed and over 20 others injured in a suicide car bomb blast that hit a military camp in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province on Sunday, top officials …
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Washington: US President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter and called him “lightweight” after the latter questioned the President over the November 3 election outcome which has projected Democrat …
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Shyamhari Chakra Two decades ago, two teenagers – one from India and the other from Sri Lanka – fell in love and got married. Twenty years later, their cross border …
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Kabul: At least seven people were injured on Saturday in two separate magnetic IED blasts in Kabul, police in the Afghan capital said. The first blast occurred at around 7.10 a.m. …
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New York: An unoccupied small utility vehicle (SUV) fell into a giant sinkhole at a residential neighbourhood in New York City’s Queens borough, according to a media report. The incident took …
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Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 61.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.44 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest …
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Caracas: Venezuela’s Supreme Court has convicted six former American oil executives of corruption and sentenced them to prison. The six Americans, who were executives of US-based refining company Citgo, were arrested …
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