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Protests continue in Pakistan over 'blasphemous caricatures', 4 cops kille
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Lahore/Karachi [Pakistan], April 15 (ANI): At least four policemen were killed during the clashes as violence erupted across Pakistan over demand of the expulsion of a French envoy over the publication of alleged blasphemous caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, according to media reports.
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China uses surveillance devices, national security procedures to impose cr
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 15 (ANI): The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses the standard operating procedures of "national security investigations" and surveillance systems to track and impose crackdowns on foreign journalists and they were subject to intimidation and harassment.
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Russia registers 8,944 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], April 15 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia registered 8,944 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, up from 8,326 the day before, taking the overall tally to 4,675,153, the coronavirus response center said on Thursday.
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Former world leaders call on Biden to waive COVID vaccine patents
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 15 (ANI): More than 170 former world leaders and Nobel laureates are calling on United States President Joe Biden to make COVID-19 vaccines more readily available by waiving US intellectual property rules.
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Ahmadis residing in Germany fear deportation to Pak
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], April 15 (ANI): As the persecution against the minority community of Ahmadis continues to mount in Pakistan and overseas, Ahmadi Muslims are threatened with deportation from Germany.
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Cancelling Tokyo Olympics 'an option' says Japan's ruling party official
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], April 15 (ANI): Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Toshihiro Nikai said on Thursday that cancelling this summer's Tokyo Olympics may be an option if the spread of coronavirus infections forces organisers to think it would be difficult to hold the even
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Biden spoke to Bush, Obama about Afghanistan troop withdrawal
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 15 (ANI): US President Joe Biden spoke to former President George W. Bush on Tuesday ahead of his announcement that he intended to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan.
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Number of people injured by train derailment in Egypt rises to 15
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Cario [Egypt], April 15 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of people, who have been injured as a result of a passenger train's derailment in the northern Egyptian province of Sharqia, has risen to 15, the national Ministry of Health said.
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FBI opens investigation into China every 10 hours, says director
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 15 (ANI): Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray told US Senate Intelligence Committee members on Wednesday (local time) that the agency is opening an investigation into various Chinese government actions every 10 hours.
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Ex-US police officer charged with 2nd-degree manslaughter in Daunte Wright
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Minneapolis [US], April 15 (ANI): An ex-police officer who shot and killed an African American man Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb after a traffic stop has been arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter, authorities said on Wednesday.
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Hong Kong court extends Joshua Wong's jail time for 2019 pro-democracy pro
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 14 (ANI): Joshua Wong, one of Hong Kong's democracy activists and among 47 people charged under the draconian national security law, was sentenced to four months in jail on Tuesday for unauthorized assembly and violating an anti-mask law.
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US Intel assessment warns of increasing threats from China
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 14 (ANI): China's effort to expand its influence represents one of the largest threats to the United States, according to a major annual intelligence reportwhich also warned of the broad national security challenges posed by Moscow and Beijing.
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