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Eight dead, including two children, in a...

Eight dead, including two children, in apartment fire in Paris

A fire broke out in an apartment building in the north of Paris early on Wednesday morning killing eight people, including two children, said police. The fire in the eighteenth arrondissement, the cause of which is unknown, broke out at around 4:30 am (0230 GMT) and took more than 100 firefighters... read more »

Hungary railway station remains closed t...

Hungary railway station remains closed to migrants

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Thousands of migrants remain stranded at Budapest’s main international railway station as Hungarian authorities are sticking to European Union rules and preventing them from leaving for Germany and other countries west. Around 3,000 migrants were at the Keleti station in the... read more »

Four killed, 56 injured in suicide bomb ...

Four killed, 56 injured in suicide bomb attack in Pakistan

Peshawar: At least four persons were killed and 56 others injured today when a suicide bomber targeted a vehicle of a line officer in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal region, officials said. An earlier blast in Peshawar. Image courtesy: ReutersAn earlier blast in Peshawar. Image... read more »

Second Ukrainian policeman dies from inj...

Second Ukrainian policeman dies from injuries after clashes in Kiev

Kiev: A second Ukrainian policeman died Tuesday from injuries suffered in street battles with protesters in Kiev, and more than 140 people were being treated in hospital, officials said. The clashes flared outside parliament on Monday as demonstrators protested at legislation approved on first... read more »

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PESHAWAR – At least seven suspected militants have been killed while four others injured in a US drone strike near the Pak-Afghan border in South Waziristan Agency. Two of the dead... read more »

Six labourers killed, 10 injured in coalmine blast

KALAYA: Six labourers were killed and seven others sustained injuries in a coalmine explosion in the Doli area in Orakzai Agency where the Mines and Minerals Department has declared several... read more »

Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram may be ineligible to vote in upcoming election

Nigerians fleeing a wave of killings by the Islamist group Boko Haram have already lost loved ones, livelihoods and most of their possessions. Now they seem likely to lose their vote. A... read more »

Charlie Hebdo: Why Pope Francis’s friendly ‘punch’ needs a counter

Pope Francis, widely acknowledged as one of the most progressive popes in recent times, appears to have joined the “condemn, but” brigade in the context of the Charlie Hebdo... read more »

Belgium terror arrests: Cops launch more overnight raids in hunt ...

The operations come after two suspected Islamists were killed and a third arrested during a gun battle with cops in the Belgian town of Verviers yesterday Cops in Belgium have launched further raids... read more »