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STOCKHOLM, Aug 18 (XINHUA/APP): Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Friday that the government had thwarted several terrorist attacks. “We know that planned acts of terrorism have been hindered,” Kristersson said at a press conference, hours after the Swedish Secret Service’s decision to raise […]

ISLAMABAD Aug 16 (Online): Another incident of desecration of the Holy Quran has taken place outside the Swedish Royal Palace in the capital Stockholm amid a heavy police presence, it emerged on Wednesday. The incident, which took place on Monday, marked the second time in […]

DHAKA Aug 16 (Online): Around 50,000 people attended Tuesday’s funeral Jamaat-e-Islami leader in Bangladesh, police said, after news of his death while he was in prison for war crimes prompted violent anti-government protests. Delwar Hossain Sayedee, 83, was sentenced to death in 2013 for rape, […]

Damascus, Aug 16 (AFP/APP): Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has decreed a 100-percent pay rise for civil servants and pensioners while fuel subsidies were lifted in a country ravaged by 12 years of war. The Syrian economy has been battered by the conflict that has killed […]