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Colombo, Dec 2: Thousands took to relief camps in Sri Lanka and southern India on Saturday to escape rising floodwaters after a cyclone killed at least 26 people. Cyclone Ockhi has left 13 people dead in Sri Lanka and killed an equal number in India's Kerala and Tamil Nadu states since Friday as it churns in the Arabian Sea. Eleven people, mostly fishermen, remained missing in the two countries as

Washington, Dec 2: US President Donald Trump spoke over phone with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during which the two leaders expressed satisfaction over the recently concluded Global Entrepreneurship Summit co-hosted by the US and India last month in Hyderabad, the White House said today. President Trump's daughter Ivanka, who is also his senior advisor, had led the US delegation at the three-day

Peshawar, Dec 1: Pakistani Taliban gunmen, using the disguise of all-enveloping burquas, stormed the campus of an agriculture university in Pakistan on Friday, wounding at least five people, police said. The attackers were exchanging fire with security forces at the Directorate of Agriculture Institute of Peshawar, said Tahir Khan, chief of police in the northwestern city. "Police and army

United States, Nov 30: The United States on Wednesday warned that North Korea's leadership will be "utterly destroyed" if war breaks out as it called on countries to cut all diplomatic and trade ties with North Korea -- including Chinese oil shipments to Pyongyang. Washington urged tough action at an emergency meeting of the Security Council called to respond to North Korea's launch of an

Washington DC, Nov 30: The United States administration of President Donald Trump on Thursday hailed Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) which is being held in India's Hyderabad and said that its tremendous success is indicative of the strong bilateral relationship between the two great nations. Calling the GES Summit a "tremendous success", the Spokesperson for the United States Department of

Pakistan’s former president and military chief Pervez Musharraf said that he is the biggest supporter of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) as it is involved in targetting Indian Army in Kashmir region. Musharraf appeared on a TV talk show on a Pakistan-based channel, and revealed that he likes the LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and met him recently. “I’m the biggest supporter of Lashkar-e-Taiba and I know the LeT

Seoul, Nov 29: North Korea has fired a ballistic missile, the first such launch since mid-September, according to officials in South Korea, Japan and the United States. "North Korea launched an unidentified ballistic missile eastward from the vicinity of Pyongsong, South Pyongan Province, at dawn today", South Korean army officials told South Korean news agency Yonhap. There was no immediate

London, Nov 28: Myanmar's State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi has been formally stripped of the Freedom of the City of Oxford award over her response to the Rohingya crisis, the Guardian reported. The council of Oxford city voted unanimously to permanently remove the honour given to the de facto leader of Myanmar in 1997, saying that it did not want to celebrate "those who turn a blind eye to

Yangon, Nov 28: Pope Francis begins his first full day in Myanmar travelling to the country's capital today to meet with the civilian leader, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, a day after hosting the military general in charge of the crackdown on the country's Muslim Rohingya minority. Francis' speech to Suu Kyi, other Myanmar authorities and the diplomatic corps in Naypyitaw is the most

Islamabad, Nov 26: Pakistan's government has called in the army to restore order after clashes between police and protesters belonging to hardline religious groups killed six people and injured more than 200 others in the capital. The police aided by paramilitary Rangers and Frontier Constabulary yesterday launched a massive operation against activists of Tehreek-i-Khatm-i-Nabuwwat, Tehreek-i