At least 19 Lashkar-e-Taiba militants were killed and eight others wounded in the airstrikes in Dangam district of eastern Kunar province, bordering Pakistan, Afghan government said on Sunday, signalling a major crackdown on the terror group operating from across the border. The airstrikes in Airogoi village in Dangam district last evening also destroyed one BM—1 rocket launcher and one machine […]
» Read moreMariano Rajoy was re-elected as Prime Minister of Spain after his investiture was ratified by the Congress. “With courage, strength and determination we managed to overcome many of the challenges we had to face in the last four years, and I’m sure we can do the same again,” he said after the result was announced on Saturday, Efe news reported. […]
» Read moreWashington: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who is still trailing his opponent Hillary Clinton two weeks from Election Day, said he’d like to “cancel the election” and be declared the winner, media reports said. “Just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump,” CNN quoted Trump as saying during a rally […]
» Read moreThe U.S. on Thursday arrested 20 people, at least 16 of them of Indian origin, on charges of defrauding hundreds of Americans through a scheme operated from a network of call centres in Ahmedabad. Five companies and 32 individuals in India have also been charged. The names of the companies or the individuals were not immediately known. The case comes close […]
» Read moreMilitants linked to the Islamic State group killed around 30 civilians, including children, in the central Afghan province of Ghor, the local government said on Wednesday. The incident occurred late on Tuesday in north of the provincial capital Firoz Koh, with the government calling it a revenge attack after a local IS commander was killed. “Our security forces with the […]
» Read morePaul Beatty has became the first US author to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel “The Sellout”, which the novelist said should not be read as a “mono-directional” take on race. The jury behind the world’s most prestigious English-language literary award said the novel was a “shocking and unexpectedly funny” portrayal of Beatty’s native Los Angeles, using satire […]
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