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Bondi hero cop Scott Dyson's ordeal...

Bondi hero cop Scott Dyson's ordeal before Christmas miracle as he wak...

Bondi hero cop Scott Dyson's ordeal before Christmas miracle as he wakes from coma ## Bondi Officer Recovers After Beachfront Attack; Investigation Continues Bondi Beach, NSW – Senior Constable Scott Dyson of the New South Wales Police Force has emerged from a medically induced coma, a... read more »

Russia strikes Ukraine in deadly Christm...

Russia strikes Ukraine in deadly Christmas attack as hundreds of missiles l...

Russia strikes Ukraine in deadly Christmas attack as hundreds of missiles launched ## Escalation in Ukraine: Civilian Areas Targeted in Renewed Russian Offensive Kyiv – A significant escalation in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine has been reported, with a barrage of Russian missile strikes... read more »

Flight attendant's chilling revelat...

Flight attendant's chilling revelation after 'dead gran' whe...

Flight attendant's chilling revelation after 'dead gran' wheeled onto easyJet plane ## Emergency Landing Highlights Complexities of Passenger Wellbeing in Air Travel **Gatwick, UK –** A recent incident involving an easyJet flight from an undisclosed Spanish airport to Gatwick has... read more »

Colombian held for plotting to kill Venezuelan president
Trump warns Maduro not to play tough as ...

Trump warns Maduro not to play tough as Russia, China back Venezuela

Trump warns Maduro not to play tough as Russia, China back Venezuela **U.S. Escalates Pressure on Venezuela Amidst International Tensions** Washington D.C. – The United States has intensified its stance against the Venezuelan government led by President Nicolás Maduro, issuing a stern warning as... read more »

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1,30,000 Syrian refugees reach Turkey fleeing IS

ANKARA, Turkey: The number of Syrian refugees who have reached Turkey in the past four days after fleeing the advance of Islamic State militants now totals 1,30,000, Turkey’s deputy prime... read more »

Two killed in explosions in China’s Muslim-d...

Beijing: At least two persons were killed and several others injured in a series of explosions in China’s restive Muslim-dominated Xinjiang... read more »

Al-Qaida affiliate in Syria kills captive Lebanese sold...

9:53 P.M. The Nusra Front, al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, has killed one of the Lebanese soldiers it had been holding in captivity, Lebanese security... read more »

France conducts first airstrike in Iraq, destroys logis...

PARIS: France says it has conducted its first airstrike in Iraq and has destroyed a logistics depot held by the Islamic State group. The office of President... read more »

Libya’s Zawiya refinery, El Sharara oil field shu...

TRIPOLI: Libya’s 120,000 barrels-a-day Zawiya refinery has been shut down due to damaged storage, an oil ministry official said on Thursday. The El... read more »

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Israel passes bill to annex part of Jordan Valley

Israel approves new settlements in West Bank

Israeli authorities have green-lighted the construction of 800 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank. Israel’s Defence Ministry said on Monday it had approved a planning stage for the... read more »

Syrians fleeing war face hardship in Balkans

Syrians fleeing war face hardship in Balkans

Thousands of Syrian and other refugees from the West Asia and Africa, who make a dangerous journey from their war-ravaged countries, often end up in... read more »

Six Syrian Islamist factions unite in bid to oust Assad

Six Syrian Islamist factions unite in bid to oust Assad

Johannesburg – Six Islamist rebel factions in Syria have united and declared a new Islamic Front with an aim to oust President Bashar al-Assad and... read more »

Afghanistan wants to delay US security deal

Afghanistan wants to delay US security deal

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told his countrymen that a vital security pact with the US should not come into effect until after next year’s election... read more »

No legal Indian worker affected by Nitaqat policy: Saud...

Saudi petrochem giant opens tech centre in Bangalore

New Delhi – Saudi Arabia Thursday clarified that its Nitaqat work policy was directed at illegal expatriates and no legal worker had been affected. The... read more »

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50 percent of Pakistanis support government: Survey

Islamabad – Fifty percent of Pakistan’s population supports the present government, with 49 percent favouring the opposition, a survey has found. An opinion poll conducted Aug 1-26 by the... read more »

Tajikistan's Imomali Rakhmon re-elected president

Tajikistan’s Imomali Rakhmon re-elected pres...

Tajikistan’s President Imomali Rakhmon has won a new seven-year term in Wednesday’s election, receiving 83.1 percent of the vote after... read more »

Maldives president hopes for credible poll

Maldives president hopes for credible poll

Male – Maldives President Mohamed Waheed Wednesday expressed the hope for a credible and successful presidential election later this week. He said this... read more »

Graft case filed against former Pak PM Ashraf

Graft case filed against former Pak PM Ashraf

Pakistan’s anti-graft watchdog on Wednesday filed a case against former premier Raja Pervez Ashraf over a Rs 22-billion scam in setting up power... read more »

Court orders Musharraf’s release

Court orders Musharraf's release

Islamabad – A Pakistan court Wednesday ordered the release of ex-president Pervez Musharraf from house arrest, two days after he was granted bail in... read more »

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