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Washington, Nov 13: A 24-year-old Muslim school teacher in the US was told to hang herself with her headscarf in a handwritten anonymous note which said the scarf "isn't allowed anymore". Mairah Teli, a teacher at Dacula High School in Gwinnett County, located outside Atlanta in Georgia, posted a picture of the note on her Facebook page last week. "Mrs Teli, your head scarf isn't allowed anymore

Washington, Nov 13: Hillary Clinton has blamed the FBI for her loss at the hands of her Republican challenger Donald Trump, claiming the decision to revive the probe into her email accounts stopped her momentum towards a historic win. "There are lots of reasons why an election like this is not successful. Our analysis is that Comey's letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to

Karachi, Nov 13: At least 52 people, including women and children, were killed and more than 100 others injured today in a suicide bombing at a popular sufi shrine in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, an attack claimed by the Islamic State terror group. The blast occurred in the remote Hub region in Khuzdar district of the province while devotees were participating in a Sufi dance called

Beijing, Nov 12: India will not become a "pawn" for Japan to contain China, a Chinese state-run media today said, accusing Japan of exploiting Sino-India disputes for its own interests. "Japan wants to use the disputes between China and India to court India to help contain China. Japan seeks to urge India to meddle in the South China Sea issue, even at the cost of changing its long-held position

Washington, Nov 12: Indian-origin California Attorney General Kamala Harris has potential to become the first woman president of the United States, a media report has said, days after Hillary Clinton was unable to break the highest glass ceiling. 51-year-old Harris, whose mother was from Chennai and father from Jamaica, won the US Senate Seat from California in a landslide election this Tuesday

Washington, Nov 12: Donald Trump has indicated that he will consider retaining an "amended" version of the Affordable Care Act, a marked shift in stance on his major campaign promise of repealing President Barack Obama's flagship healthcare law. The President-elect made the apparent U-turn after his meeting with Obama at the White House this week, according to the Wall Street Journal. In an

Tokyo, Nov 11: Making an exception, Japan today signed a historic civil nuclear cooperation deal with India, opening the door for collaboration between their industries in the field even as the countries signed nine other agreements in various areas to bolster bilateral ties. The agreements, including the one for cooperation in peaceful uses of nuclear energy, marks a historic step in their

New York, Nov 11: Hillary and Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea Clinton is being groomed to run for a US House of Representatives seat held by a 79-year-old veteran Democrat who has decided to retire, a media report said today. The 36-year-old daughter could run for the seat in New York City's 17th Congressional District to replace Nita Lowey. Lowey, a respected career politician with nearly 30

Mazar-i-Sharif, Nov 11: A powerful Taliban truck bomb struck the German consulate in Afghanistan's northern Mazar-i-Sharif city, killing at least two people and wounding more than 100 in a major militant assault in the war-torn country. The Taliban called it a "revenge attack" for US airstrikes in the volatile province of Kunduz earlier this month that left up to 32 civilians dead. The huge

Washington, Nov 10: Islamic State and al-Qaeda jihadists have 'hailed' Donald Trump's win in presidential polls as the beginning of "dark times" for the US with some extremists predicting America's "demise" at the hands of the billionaire businessman, according to media reports. Shortly after Trump was declared the victor, a number of prominent ideologues linked to jihadist outfits in the Middle