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India defence chief’s body arrives in Delhi after helicopter crash

Posted on December 10, 2021 by News Desk

New Delhi, Dec 9 (AFP/APP):The body of Indian defence chief General Bipin Rawat arrived in New Delhi on Thursday, one day after he and 12 others were killed in a helicopter crash near a military academy. Rawat, 63, was travelling with his wife and other […]

Father, son charged with starting huge California forest fire

Posted on December 9, 2021 by Tuba Zafar

Los Angeles, Dec 9 (AFP/APP):A father and son have been arrested on charges of starting a huge forest fire that burned more than 200,000 acres in northern California this summer, local officials said. David Smith, 66, and Travis Smith, 32, were charged with starting a […]

Australian lawmakers call for inquiry into Murdoch media

Posted on December 9, 2021 by Tuba Zafar

Sydney, Dec 9 (AFP/APP):Australian lawmakers Thursday backed calls for a full judicial inquiry into media ownership, at the end of their own year-long investigation sparked by a record-breaking petition demanding a probe into Rupert Murdoch’s dominance of the sector. The Senate committee recommended the establishment […]

Libya upper house calls for election delay

Posted on December 9, 2021 by News Desk

Tripoli, Dec 8 (AFP/APP):Libya’s upper house on Wednesday proposed delaying December presidential elections by two months, the latest dispute over the vote intended to help end 10 years of violence. A United Nations-led political process targeting December 24 polls has been undermined by bitter divisions […]

Cavendish ‘distressed’ by armed robbery at his home

Posted on December 9, 2021 by News Desk

London, Dec 8 (AFP/APP):Mark Cavendish said his family were “extremely distressed” after a group of armed burglars assaulted the record holder for Tour de France stage wins and threatened his wife in a raid while his children were in the house. Four intruders entered Cavendish’s […]

UNGA adopts four Pakistani resolutions aimed at underpinning regional, world peace

Posted on December 8, 2021 by Tuba Zafar

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 08 (APP):The United Nations General Assembly has approved Pakistan’s four disarmament-related resolutions that are aimed at strengthening regional and international peace and security. The resolutions were recommended by the 193-member Assembly’s First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) where the texts were adopted […]

Elephant kills two Sri Lanka cricket stadium staff

Posted on December 8, 2021 by Tuba Zafar

Colombo, Dec 8 (AFP/APP):Two ground staff at an international cricket stadium in Sri Lanka were killed in an elephant attack, officials said Wednesday. The two workers were heading home on Tuesday evening when they were attacked outside the Suriyawewa Mahinda Rajapaksa international stadium in Hambantota. […]

20 sentenced to death for Bangladesh student killing: prosecutor

Posted on December 8, 2021 by Tuba Zafar

Dhaka, Dec 8 (AFP/APP):Bangladesh sentenced 20 people to death on Wednesday for the brutal 2019 murder of a university student who criticised the government on social media, a prosecutor told AFP. “Twenty people have been sentenced to death and five people were sentenced to life […]

Northern Ireland Protocol stokes EU-UK tensions

Posted on December 8, 2021 by Tuba Zafar

Belfast, Dec 8 (AFP/APP):The Northern Ireland Protocol was signed separately from the Brexit trade deal between the UK and the European Union and aims to avoid a “hard” border on the island of Ireland. Physical infrastructure on the border between the province and EU member […]

UN court tells Armenia and Azerbaijan to cool feud

Posted on December 8, 2021 by News Desk

The Hague, Dec 7 (AFP/APP):The UN’s top court ordered rivals Armenia and Azerbaijan Tuesday to prevent racial hatred and avoid aggravating their feud following last year’s war between the Caucasus arch-foes. Azerbaijan was also told to protect Armenian prisoners from the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and […]

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India defence chief’s body arrives in Delhi after helicopter crash

Father, son charged with starting huge California forest fire

Australian lawmakers call for inquiry into Murdoch media

Libya upper house calls for election delay

Cavendish ‘distressed’ by armed robbery at his home

UNGA adopts four Pakistani resolutions aimed at underpinning regional, world peace

Elephant kills two Sri Lanka cricket stadium staff

20 sentenced to death for Bangladesh student killing: prosecutor

Northern Ireland Protocol stokes EU-UK tensions

UN court tells Armenia and Azerbaijan to cool feud

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