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Eight including newborn killed in airstrike in Afghanistan's Khost provinc
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Khost [Afghanistan], Dec 01 (Sputnik/ANI): At least eight people, including a newborn, were killed after an airstrike was carried out on a car in Afghanistan's Khost province, a resident of Ali Shir district told Sputnik on Saturday.
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Afghanistan: Army commander killed in bomb blast in Helmand
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Nov 30 (ANI): Brig. Gen. Zahirgul Muqbil, an army commander of Afghan border forces was killed in a roadside bomb explosion in Marjah district of Helmand province, the provincial governor's spokesman Omar Zwak told Tolo News on Saturday morning.
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At least 45 protesters shot dead, 152 others wounded in escalating Iraqi u
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Baghdad (Iraq), Nov 29 (Sputnik/ANI): At least 45 demonstrators have been shot dead by security forces and 152 others have been injured amid increasing protest violence in the south of Iraq and the country's capital of Baghdad, local media reported, citing sources.
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Policeman, suspect killed in grenade blast in southern Philippines
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], Nov 28 (ANI): A police officer was killed and ten people, mostly students, sustained injuries in a grenade blast at a college campus in Philippines' southern province of Misamis Oriental on Thursday, police said.
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47 policemen injured in violence outside Iranian consulate in Iraq
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Najaf [Iraq], Nov 28 (Sputnik/ANI): Forty-seven police personnel were wounded in clashes with demonstrators outside the Iranian consulate building in Iraq's southern city of Najaf, Luay Yasiri, the governor of the Najaf province, told Al Arabiya on Thursday.
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Sri Lankan President 'personally invites' Muralitharan to become governor
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 27 (ANI): Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has "personally invited" legendary spinner Muttiah Muralitharan to accept the post of the Governor of the country's Tamil-dominated Northern Province, Daily Mirror reported on Wednesday.
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US-based advocacy group urges Imran Khan to reopen Khokhrapar border cross
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Nov 27 (ANI): A US-based advocacy group has urged Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to reopen the Khokhrapar-Munabao border with India so as to facilitate the travel of, both, the Muslim pilgrims from Pakistan to Dargah Ajmer Sharif in Rajasthan, and Hindu devotees from
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Germany urges China to allow UN officials to Xinjiang
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], Nov 25 (ANI): Germany on Monday called on China to provide access to the UN human rights commissioner and international experts to Xinjiang province amid surfacing of evidence proving Chinese authorities inflicting atrocities on minorities Muslims community in the region.
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2 killed in IED blast in Pak's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], Nov 25 (ANI): At least two people were killed in an IED blast that took place in Dera Ismail Khan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday.
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Taliban commander among 10 terrorists killed in clashes with security forc
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Nov 25 (ANI): As many as 10 terrorists, including a Taliban commander, were killed in an armed conflict with Afghan security forces in the country's Kunduz province on Sunday, provincial governor's spokesperson said.
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6 killed, 158 wounded in anti-gov't protests in southern Iraq
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Nov 24 (ANI): At least six people were killed and some 158 others sustained injuries in anti-government protests in southern provinces of Basra and Dhi Qar on Sunday, the Iraqi Independent High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) had said.
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Plane with 18 onboard crashes in east DR Congo
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Kinshasa [DR Congo], Nov 24 : A plane carrying at least 18 people crashed in a peripheral area of Goma City, North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) on Sunday.
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