| Pakistan army faces militancy problem: Daily |
Islamabad, Aug 17: The Pakistan Army appears to have a militancy problem that is “hidden from the public because investigations and court martials are often carried out in secret”, a leading Pakistani paper said on Friday, a day after the audacious attack on the key Kamra airbase.
Heavily armed gunmen had stormed the Kamra airbase in Punjab province on Thursday morning. An i... |
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| US keeps Russia on 'national threat' list |
Moscow, Aug 17: US President Barack Obama has extended a legal act that lists Russia, among 16 other States, as a national threat, and allows for the freezing and confiscation of assets in the US.
Russia, alongside Syria, Iran, North Korea, Belarus and other states, has been subjected to International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) since 2000 due to its ability to export weapons-... |
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| Assange granted asylum for fear of US |
Moscow, Aug 17: Ecuador has granted political asylum to Julian Assange over concerns that the WikiLeaks’ founder could be transferred to the US and face death penalty after extradition to Sweden, said the Ecuadorian ambassador to Russia on Friday. “We cannot anticipate the US expectations but we do not rule out even the death penalty,” Ambassador Patricio Alberto Chavez Zavala sa... |
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| Anti-Assad protesters attack Russian embassy in London |
London, Aug 17: Opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad pelted the Russian embassy in London with stones overnight, causing significant damage to the building, the embassy said in a statement on Friday. “On the night of August 16-17, the consulate department of the Russian Embassy in London was attacked by a large group of people who were chanting slogans against the Syrian government ... |
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| Pussy Riot members found guilty in Moscow |
Moscow, Aug 17: Three members of Russian girl punk band Pussy Riot were found guilty of hooliganism by a Moscow district court on Friday. They performed a “punk prayer” calling on the Virgin Mary to “drive Putin out” and were arrested shortly after their performance. They say they were protesting against the Orthodox Church’s support for Putin ahead of the March 4 pre... |
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| Israel preparing to attack Iran |
London, Aug 17: Israel is preparing for a ground attack on Iran before Christmas, after conducting commando dry runs in the Iraq desert, a media report said.
Top military officials in Tel Aviv believe they have until the end of the year to strike at Iran’s nuclear programme.
The main target would be a heavily fortified uranium enrichment plant at Fordo, near the holy city ... |
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| Israel is cancerous tumour: Ahmadinejad |
Tehran, Aug 17: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday said Israel was an “insult to humanity” and compared the country to a “cancerous tumour” that must be stopped before it spreads. Ahmadinejad’s comments were made to worshippers at Tehran University to mark the last day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Iran’s Fars news agency reported. In Iran... |
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| What's your risk of developing kidney failure? |
Toronto, Aug 17: New research has thrown up some startling insights about the likelihood of middle-aged adults developing kidney failure during their lifetime. About one in 40 men and one in 60 women of middle age will develop kidney failure if they live into their 90s, says a study. This translates into a 2.66 per cent risk of kidney failure for men and a 1.76 per cent risk for women. The risk is... |
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| 'India heading for Mars, doesn't need British aid money' |
London, Aug 17: India, which has announced it will send a space probe to Mars, is now a country with more technological prowess than Britain and the “best and most beautiful spoken English in the world” is now heard in India, the Telegraph said on Friday. In an article titled “India is heading for Mars: it doesn’t need British aid money to pay the bills”, columnist Th... |
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| Kids don't want expensive pastime during holidays |
London, Aug 17: British children are not keen on spending their holidays on expensive activities like riding roller-coasters or eating at fast-food stands. They are just happy climbing trees or playing hide and seek, says a study. According to an index compiled by Sainsbury’s, the top three activities in terms of pleasure versus cost were playing in the garden or park, water fights or buildi... |
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| Woman kills self over skin condition |
London, Aug 17: A 31-year-old British woman, who was plagued by a skin condition that caused her face to redden, went into depression that caused her to jump to her death from a bridge. For several months, Vicky Norfolk suffered from rosacea, which looks like a rash. Despite support from her family, the woman descended into depression and resolved to take her own life. She jumped from the Humber B... |
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| Briton gets world's first battery-powered heart pump |
London, Aug 17: A 60-year-old Briton, who suffered heart failure but was too ill to survive a transplant, has become the world’s first to get a heart pump powered by portable batteries. Barry Wade has been allowed to leave hospital and live at home after tiny three-inch titanium heart pump -- HeartMate II -- was fitted in him, The Sun reported. The pump is charged by two portable batteries t... |
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| Man jailed for beating dog to death |
London, Aug 17: A 27-year-old Briton has been jailed for over four months after he hanged his six-month-old puppy by its collar and then beat it to death with a baseball bat because it had urinated on the carpet. Craig Curtis hung his Staffordshire bull terrier Bruno after the pup urinated. He then battered the dog, and put its lifeless body in his freezer before dumping it later in a nearby woodl... |
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| Brothers reunited after 80 years |
London, Aug 17: Two brothers in the US - aged 82 and 84 - who were separated when one was sent to an orphanage aged two have finally been reunited after 80 years. Ed Muir (84) travelled from his home in Naples, Florida to Fargo, North Dakota to see his 82-year-old brother, Kenneth Corcoran, after Corcoran’s family tracked him down using the internet. The boys were split up after their mother... |
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| Man held in Italy for beating wife for removing veil |
Rome, Aug 17: An Egyptian Muslim man was held by the police for allegedly beating his Tunisian wife after she removed her veil in the torrid summer heat on the Italian island of Sicily. The 20-year-old pregnant woman was rushed to hospital in the Sicilian city of Agrigento. Witnesses described it as an “out-of-control violent reaction” by her 19-year-old husband after she removed her h... |
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