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Sports-loving sultan picked as Malaysian king after shock abdication
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia’s royal families on Thursday picked a sports-loving sultan as the country’s new king after the last monarch abdicated in a historic first following his reported marriage to a Russian ex-beauty queen.The…
Kim expresses ‘great satisfaction’ over Trump’s letter
Kim made the remark after top aide Kim Yong-chol briefed him on the results of his visit to Washington last week that included meetings with Trump and other top officials for talks about a second summit between the two countries,…
Gunman kills five at US bank: police
Miami: A gunman killed at least five people Thursday at a bank in Sebring, Florida in the southern United States, police said.“We have at least five victims, people who were senselessly murdered,” Police Chief Karl Hoglund told a…
Thousands hit Mizoram streets against Citizenship Bill
Aizawl: Thousands of people, including students, hit the streets across different places in Mizoram on Wednesday to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.Effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister…
Trump should resign: US former Secretary of State
Trump was supposed to attend the World Economic Forum here to deliver an address, but he pulled out because of the partial government shutdown that has become the longest in US history.US former Secretary of State John Kerry has said if…
Pak court temporarily halts Mumbai attack case hearing
Islamabad: A Pakistani has temporarily halted the hearing of the 2008 Mumbai attack case to let the prosecutor produce more witnesses.Ten Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists had sailed into Mumbai from Karachi and carried out…
US confirms Taliban talks in Qatar
Zalmay Khalilzad, the US special representative on Afghan reconciliation, met Tuesday in the Qatari capital Doha with Taliban representatives, the State Department said.The United States confirmed Wednesday that its envoy is meeting in…
Nigeria’s new outbreak of Lassa fever kills 16
Lagos: Nigerian health authorities on Tuesday declared a new outbreak of Lassa fever that has killed 16 people since early January, despite successfully containing the disease last year.“Since the onset of the 2019 outbreak, there…
Four held in New York state for ‘plotting’ against Muslims
The suspects have been accused of possessing homemade bombs and firearms, and planning to attack Islamberg, founded by a Pakistani cleric in the 1980s.Three men and a teenage boy have been arrested and charged for an alleged plot…
Pak authorities sack chief of Punjab’s anti-terror deptt in fake encounter case
Lahore: Pakistani authorities on Tuesday sacked the head of the Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) after a probe into a weekend shootout revealed that three members of a family were killed in a fake encounter on a highway.…