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US rescinds $5m reward for Al Shabaab leader

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US rescinds $5m reward for Al Shabaab leader

WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has quietly rescinded a reward of up to $5 million for information about a top member of the Al Qaeda-allied extremist group Al Shabaab in Somalia amid reports he may be in talks with the Somali government to leave the organization. Mukhtar Robow was removed from the “most wanted list” of […]

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Danish foreign minister rules out action on alleged Turkish surveillance

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Danish foreign minister rules out action on alleged Turkish surveillance

Conflicting information from the Turkish embassy represents a lack of cause for tougher measures on alleged Turkish surveillance of individuals within Denmark’s borders, says Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen. Turkey denies having carried out surveillance on individuals in Denmark critical of the Ankara government, says Samuelsen. Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen. Photo: Ólafur Steinar Gestsson/Scanpix The foreign […]

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Over 120 killed, 100 injured in Bahawalpur oil tanker fire

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Over 120 killed, 100 injured in Bahawalpur oil tanker fire

An oil tanker exploded minutes after it overturned near Bahawalpur in Punjab, leaving at least 125 people dead on Sunday morning, according to Express News. Over 100 people, including 20 children, were injuries when they reportedly gathered to collect leaking oil from the lorry in Ahmed Pur Sharqia area. Forty people sustained severe burn wounds […]

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‘No THAAD, No Trump’: 1st anti-US rally under Moon presidency staged in Seoul By Park Si-soo

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‘No THAAD, No Trump’: 1st anti-US rally under Moon presidency staged in Seoul By Park Si-soo

Thousands of protesters marched near the U.S. embassy in Seoul on Saturday, accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of “forcing” South Korea to deploy the controversial American missile defense system China opposes. The protest came as South Korea’s new president Moon Jae-In heads to Washington next week for his first summit with Trump amid soaring tensions […]

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Islamic State K-P chief’ among two killed in Peshawar raid, major attack on Eid averted

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Islamic State K-P chief’ among two killed in Peshawar raid, major attack on Eid averted

PESHAWAR: Two suspected Islamic State (Daesh) terrorists including its Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) chief Arif alias Khalil alias Abuzar were killed and five security personnel injured in an exchange of fire in Shahpur village, Peshawar on Saturday. Law-enforcement agencies raided the hideout of the terrorists at a flour mill on Dalazak Road in the morning and the gun battle […]

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British parliament hit by cyber security attack (Reuters)

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British parliament hit by cyber security attack (Reuters)

Britain’s parliament was hit by a cyber attack on Saturday in which hackers tried to access email accounts, just over a month after a ransomware worm crippled parts of the country’s health service. Chris Rennard, a member of the Liberal Democrat party in the upper House of Lords, was the first to draw attention to […]

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Japan files protest against Chinese coast guard patrols near disputed islands

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Japan files protest against Chinese coast guard patrols near disputed islands

Tokyo has lodged a protest over four Chinese coast guard vessels it says violated its waters near disputed East China Sea islands. The complaint comes a week after the Japanese Navy sent its flagship helicopter carrier close to waters claimed by Beijing. Four China Coast Guard ships sailed into the disputed territorial waters in the […]

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Amnesty declared for 83 ISIL members in Syria’s Raqqa

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Amnesty declared for 83 ISIL members in Syria’s Raqqa

Low-ranking fighters are pardoned as they do not have blood on their hands, the Raqqa Civil Council says. A civil council in Syria’s Raqqa has pardoned 83 captured ISIL fighters, in what it said was a goodwill gesture designed to promote stability as the fighting to recapture the city from the armed group intensifies. The […]

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Iraqi forces free hundreds of civilians in Mosul Old City battles as death toll mounts

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Iraqi forces free hundreds of civilians in Mosul Old City battles as death toll mounts

(Reuters) Iraqi forces opened exit routes for hundreds of civilians to flee the Old City of Mosul on Saturday as they battled to retake the ancient quarter from Islamic State militants mounting a last stand in what was the de facto capital of their “caliphate”. U.S.-trained urban warfare units were channeling their onslaught along two […]

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North Korea calls itself biggest victim in death of US student

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North Korea calls itself biggest victim in death of US student

North Korea on Friday called itself the “biggest victim” in the death of an American student who was detained for more than a year and died days after being released in a coma. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency denied that North Korea cruelly treated or tortured Otto Warmbier and accused the United States […]

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