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Notorious Israeli mob boss shot dead by assassin at point-blank range in br...

Notorious Israeli mob boss shot dead by assassin at point-blank range in broad daylight **Prominent Israeli Crime Figure Fatally Shot in Public Attack** [City, Country] – A high-profile leader of an Israeli organized crime syndicate, identified as the head of the group known as the... read more »

Airport worker dead as he's run ove...

Airport worker dead as he's run over by plane in front of 'scream...

Airport worker dead as he's run over by plane in front of 'screaming' passengers ## Tragic Incident at Montreal-Trudeau Airport Claims Life of Aviation Professional **Montreal, QC** – A devastating accident at Montreal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL) on [Insert Date of... read more »

Moment passer-by catches two-year-old gi...

Moment passer-by catches two-year-old girl with bare hands after she fell 2...

Moment passer-by catches two-year-old girl with bare hands after she fell 20ft from ledge ## Heroic Intervention Prevents Tragedy as Child Falls from Height **A swift and courageous act by a passerby averted a potential tragedy yesterday when a two-year-old girl fell approximately 20 feet from a... read more »

US Supreme Court allows Trumps mail voti...

US Supreme Court allows Trumps mail voting restrictions to proceed

US Supreme Court allows Trumps mail voting restrictions to proceed **Supreme Court Declines to Block State’s Mail-In Voting Regulations** In a significant development for election law, the United States Supreme Court has opted not to intervene in a dispute concerning new regulations governing... read more »

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Egyptian president to meet Pope Francis on Monday

VATICAN CITY: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will meet Pope Francis on Monday, Holy See spokesman Federico Lombardi said, in the first visit to the Vatican by an Egyptian leader in eight... read more »

Six nurses killed in latest attack on Chinese medi...

BEIJING: Seven people, including six nurses, were stabbed to death at a hospital dormitory in northern China on Thursday, the official Xinhua news... read more »

Egypt making slow progress on genital mutilation

MANSHIET EL-IKHWA, Egypt: Raslan Fadl, the first doctor in Egypt to be put on trial for committing female genital mutilation, is still practicing even though a... read more »

With 14.3 mn enslaved people, India is the slavery capi...

Nearly 14.3 million people, including children, are “trapped” in modern-day slavery in India, which tops a global index of people under bondage across the... read more »

Grenade attack kills 2 policemen in Charsadda

PESHAWAR – A grenade attack killed two policemen and wounded another one in Charsadda on Tuesday. The incident happened in the Shabqadar area of... read more »

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Saudi Mers death toll rises to 126

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s death toll from Mers has risen by five to 126 fatalities since the mystery respiratory virus first appeared in the kingdom in 2012, the health ministry said Friday. Two men,... read more »

High-tech podcars to take to Dubai streets in a fe...

Dubai: Dubai is set to have a new mode of public transport — high-tech podcars — in the next couple of years, a senior official announced at a... read more »

Flash floods kill 75

KABUL: Flash floods after heavy rains in northern Afghanistan killed 75 people and damaged thousands of homes, leaving authorities scrambling to help survivors... read more »

Saudi Arabia jails organiser of women’s protests for si...

Saudi petrochem giant opens tech centre in Bangalore

A Saudi court jailed a man for six years for organizing women’s demonstrations and taking part in protests against the regime, the official Saudi Press... read more »

“no way” he’ll recognize Israel as a Jewish state ̵...

West Bank – The Palestinian President says there’s “no way” he’ll recognize Israel as a Jewish state and accept just a portion of... read more »

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Afghan opium poppy cultivation hits record levels: UN

United Nations – A new survey found that opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan rose to record levels this year, with a 36 percent increase compared to last year, a UN official said... read more »

Rift in ISI-Haqqani network?

Islamabad – The killing of senior Haqqani network leader Naseeruddin Haqqani has fuelled talks of a rift between Pakistan’s spy agency... read more »

Pak court sets Nov 18 for Musharraf’s plea to lea...

Karachi – Pakistan’s Sindh High Court has set November 18 for a decision on former president Pervez Musharraf’s plea against a government ban... read more »

Meeting with Hurriyat counterproductive to India-Pakist...

Gurgaon – In strong disapproval of the meeting between Pakistani prime minister’s foreign affairs advisor Sartaj Aziz with Hurriyat leaders here,... read more »

Pakistani Taliban vows revenge af! ter leader’s k...

Islamabad – Confirming the killing of senior leader of the Haqqani Network, Naseeruddin Haqqani, the Pakistani Taliban has vowed to take revenge of the... read more »

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NSA scoops data from Yahoo, Google data centres

Washington – The US National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links connecting Yahoo and Google data centres around the world, a US daily reported Wednesday. The... read more »

UN communications will not be monitored, says US

Amid growing international anger over the spying activities of the National Security Agency, the U.S. has assured the United Nations that the world... read more »

NSA chief says EU snoop-op allegations `completely fals...

Washington – The National Security Agency head, Gen. Keith Alexander has reportedly said that the allegations about the US snooping on telephone and... read more »

NSA head denies US spying in Europe

Washington – US National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander Tuesday told lawmakers that the recent media reports about the agency’s... read more »

Obama orders ‘review of spy operations’

US President Barack Obama says he has ordered a review of the way US spy agencies gather intelligence. It follows a string of embarrassing revelations which... read more »

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