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Islamabad, Aug 11: The Trump administration has suspended more than a decade-long military training programme of Pakistani personnel at the US institutions, a media report said today, days after Islamabad and Moscow signed an agreement to allow Pakistani troops to receive training at the Russian defence centres. Pakistan and Russia signed an agreement on Tuesady at their first Joint Military

New Brunswick, Aug 10: Four people, including two police officers, were killed in a shooting in eastern Canada on Friday. Police said a suspect was taken into custody just three weeks after a gunman walked down a busy Toronto street, killing two people and wounding 13 others before taking his own life. Police in Fredericton, a city of about 56,000 that is the capital of the province of New

San Francisco, Aug 11: An airline employee "conducted an unauthorized takeoff" of an airplane without passengers at the Seattle-Tacoma airport in the northwestern US state of Washington late Friday, airport officials said on Twitter. An airline employee conducted an unauthorized takeoff without passengers at Sea-Tac; aircraft has crashed in south Puget Sound. Normal operations at Sea-Tac Airport

Islamabad, Aug 10: Pakistan Prime Minister-in-waiting Imran Khan on Friday submitted a written apology and an affidavit to the election commission for violating the electoral code of conduct while casting his vote in the general election on July 25, media reports said. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has reserved its verdict in the case, Geo News reported. The ECP had sought a signed

Beijing, Aug 10: Chinese officials have delayed the plan to demolish a newly-built mosque in the country's northwest after hundreds of ethnic Hui Muslims held sit-in protests in what is said to be the largest standoff in Beijing's efforts to clampdown on Islamisation, a media report said on Friday. A huge crowd of ethnic Hui Muslims, the second largest Muslim group after Uygurs of Xinjiang

Oslo, Aug 9: A Muslim man, who was fired from his job for refusing to greet women with a handshake, has now filed a case alleging discrimination by the school authorities. The teacher was employed as a substitute teacher at the Ekeberg elementary school in Oslo. In his complaint, the teacher had accused the school of alleged discrimination against a practicing Muslim over his refusal to shake

New York, Aug 9: The son of a police chief in a Californian city is among two teenagers arrested and charged with attempted robbery and abuse of a 71-year-old Sikh man on Monday, the second attack on a minority community member in the US state within a week, authorities said. The investigators are trying to determine if the attack was a hate crime. Police arrested 18-year-old Tyrone McAllister and

Ottawa/Canada, Aug 9: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday refused to apologize for calling out Saudi Arabia on its human rights record, after Riyadh said it was considering further punitive measures against Ottawa over its criticisms of the kingdom. Tensions have been high between the two countries since Monday, when Riyadh expelled Canada's ambassador, recalled its own envoy and

Bangkok, Aug 9: In a major diplomatic victory for India over Pakistan, a criminal court in Thailand has ruled that a henchman of Dawood Ibrahim's criminal syndicate is not a Pakistani, but an Indian citizen. Sayyed Muzakkir Muddassar Hussain, who is also known by aliases Mohammad Saleem and Munna Jhingra, is a senior D-Company operative and is a close associate of India's most wanted underworld

New York, Aug 9: The Trump administration said today it would impose new sanctions against Russia to punish Moscow for the use of a nerve agent in the attempted killing of a former spy and his daughter in Britain. The State Department said in a brief statement that the sanctions were in response to “the use of a ‘Novichok’ nerve agent in an attempt to assassinate UK citizen Sergei Skripal and his