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Washington, May 3: An ageing US military cargo plane carrying nine troops was destroyed in a fiery crash Wednesday as it made its final scheduled flight before being mothballed, officials said. The C-130 “Hercules” cargo plane from the Puerto Rico Air National Guard crashed around 11:30 am (1530 GMT) near the Savannah airport. Footage of the crash showed it falling from the sky then exploding in a

United Nations, May 3: Pakistan has raked up the issue of alleged human rights violation in Kashmir at the UN's Committee on Information to which India raised a strong objection, saying it was irrelevant to the work of the panel. Pakistan’s delegate Masood Anwar, addressing a session of Committee on Information yesterday, raised the issue of Kashmir alleging that human rights violations are taking

Washington, May 3: In a startling revelation, President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that Trumprepaid his personal attorney $130,000 in a deal made just before the 2016 election to keep porn star Stormy Danielsquiet about her tryst with the president, directly contradicting Trump's statements about the hush money. During an appearance on Fox News Channel's "Hannity," the

London, May 3: Cambridge Analytica, the firm embroiled in a controversy over its handling of Facebook user data, and its British parent SCL Elections, are shutting down immediately after suffering a sharp drop in business, the company said on Wednesday. The company will begin bankruptcy proceedings, it said, after losing clients and facing mounting legal fees resulting from the scandal over

May 2: President Donald Trump has never been a model of medical disclosure. Both of his most recent personal doctors have offered unbelievably rosy reviews of his health, omitting or spinning key facts, and both have had their credibility called into question. We may be finding out why they did what they did. NBC News just reported on what might be the craziest White House story you'll read this

Washington, May 2: An Indian-American owned IT company in California was on Wednesday asked to pay USD 173,044 in wages to 12 of its foreign employees, most of them from India, in violations of the H-1B visa program salary requirements. Investigations carried out by US Department of Labour's Wage and Hour Division revealed that some of the H-1B employees that information technology provider

San Francisco, May 1: The co-founder of WhatsApp, a messaging service owned by Facebook Inc with more than 1 billion daily users, said on Monday he was leaving the company, in a loss of one of the strongest advocates for privacy inside Facebook. Jan Koum`s plan to exit comes after clashing with the parent company over WhatApp`s strategy and Facebook`s attempts to use its personal data and weaken

London, Apr 30: Pakistani-origin MP Sajid Javid was on Monday appointed U.K.’s new Home Secretary to replace Amber Rudd who resigned after admitting that she had “inadvertently misled” Parliament over the existence of deportation targets for immigrants. Mr. Javid, the son of a Pakistani bus driver whose family migrated to Britain in the 1960s, was promoted from his Cabinet post of Communities

Wuhan, Apr 28: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have decided to issue "strategic guidance" to their militaries to strengthen communications and to build trust and understanding, a move aimed at avoiding a Dokalam-like situation in the future. Modi said his talks with President Xi focussed on diverse areas of India-China cooperation. "We discussed ways to give impetus

Beijing, Apr 28: The death toll has risen to nine in Friday’s stabbing attack outside a middle school in northwestern China allegedly carried out by a former pupil seeking revenge for having been bullied. The Mizhi county government in Shaanxi province reported that another 10 people have been hospitalized with injuries resulting from the rampage outside the No. 3 Middle School in the rural area