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Washington, Dec 10: The CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House, and not just to undermine confidence in the US electoral system, the Washington Post reported on Friday. Citing US officials briefed on the matter, the Post said intelligence agencies had identified individuals with connections to the Russian government

Dec 9: John Glenn, who became one of the 20th century's greatest explorers as the first American to orbit Earth and later as the world's oldest astronaut, and also had a long career as a US senator, died in Ohio on Thursday at age 95. Glenn, the last surviving member of the original seven American "Right Stuff" Mercury astronauts, died at the James Cancer Hospital at Ohio State University in

Lahore, Dec 8: Pakistan has lifted an "undeclared" ban on import of ginned cotton from India, days after rejecting a consignment of 10,000 bales of cotton from India citing violation of plant quarantine rules by importers. Earlier, the Department of Plant Protection (DPP) of the Ministry of National Food Security and Research put cotton imports from India on hold through Wagah and Karachi port

Port Blair, Dec 8: Around 1,400 tourists are stranded at Havelock and Neil islands in the Andamans after heavy rain and "cyclonic weather conditions", which are a challenge to evacuation efforts. Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday that everyone is safe and appealed to families of the tourists not to panic. "The government will launch the rescue operations immediately after the intensity

New Delhi, Dec 8: Sartaj Aziz, the Foreign Advisor to Pakistani's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, today told a full Senate chamber that the dossier on alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav contained just statements, and that additional evidence had to be collected, Pakistani media reports said. "So far, we have just statements about the involvement of the Indian spy in terror activities in Pakistan,"

Saddha Batolni/Pakistan, Dec 8: A Pakistani plane carrying 48 people crashed Wednesday in the country's mountainous north and burst into flames killing everyone on board, authorities said, in one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the nation's history. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Flight PK661 came down after one of its two turboprop engines failed while travelling from the city of

New York, Dec 7: US President-elect Donald Trump was today named by Time magazine as its Person of the Year 2016 for his stunning upset victory in the presidential election. "It's a great honour. It means a lot. I have grown up reading Time magazine, it's a very important magazine. It is a tremendous honor, I am lucky to be on the cover of Time in the past," Trump told NBC's news program Today

London, Dec 7: Britain's longest serving Indian- origin MP Virendra Sharma has called the Indian government to end the uncertainty surrounding demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for NRIs and PIOs. The 69-year-old Labour party MP has received several calls and letters on the issue from his constituents in the heavily Indian-origin area of Ealing, Southall, in south-west London. "Still a

Meureudu, Dec 7: The death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck western Indonesia on Wednesday has nearly doubled to 97, the military said, as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of scores of shattered buildings. The shallow 6.5-magnitude quake struck Pidie Jaya district in Aceh province at dawn as many in the mainly Muslim region on Sumatra island were preparing for morning prayers

Colombo/Kuala Lumpur, Dec 6: Leaders from countries that have a significant Tamil population like Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore, including Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, today condoled J Jayalalithaa's demise with the diaspora grieving the loss of their beloved leader. "Chief Minister (Tamil Nadu) Jayalalithaa was a leader dearly loved by her people. I express my condolences to her