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Fayetteville (US), Nov 5: US President Barack Obama defended a supporter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as the crowd at a Democratic rally here began yelling at him when he stood up with a pro-Trump sign. Obama repeatedly told the crowd to "hold up" as Hillary Clinton's supporters started booing a man who stood up with the sign supporting the Republican presidential nominee. The

Dhaka, Nov 5: Four days after Hindu temples and houses were attacked in Bangladesh's Brahmanbaria district, extremists targeted the minority community again on Friday. Police said several houses were set on fire at Madhyaparha and Dakhshinparha in the Upazila town at dawn on Friday. “The attackers fled after torching seven houses. Locals put out the flames,” said Additional Superintendent of

London, Nov 4: Islamic State's reclusive chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has escaped from the terrorist group's stronghold of Mosul as the Iraqi Army advanced for a final assault, British foreign secretary Boris Johnson said today. He said western intelligence sources believe Baghdadi is no longer in Mosul, The Guardian reported. Baghdadi yesterday broke his year-long silence and issued an audio

London, Nov 4: In a crackdown to curb its soaring immigration figures, the UK government has announced changes to its visa policy for non-EU nationals, which will affect a large number of Indians especially IT professionals. Under the new visa rules announced last evening by the UK Home Office, anyone applying after November 24 under the Tier 2 intra-company transfer (ICT) category would be

Washington, Nov 3: Sewage treatment plants may soon turn human waste into fuel, thanks to a new technology that mimics the conditions the Earth uses to create crude oil - achieving in minutes something that takes Mother Nature millions of years. The technology, hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL), creates a material similar to petroleum pumped out of the ground, with a small amount of water and oxygen

North Carolina, Nov 3: President Barack Obama pressed Democrats black and white to vote in droves for Hillary Clinton Wednesday, warning Donald Trump was a threat to hard-earned civil rights, the country and the world. Painting the choice next Tuesday in the starkest terms yet, America`s first black president trashed Trump as "uniquely unqualified" to be president. Clinton remains the firm

Beijing, Nov 2: All 33 miners missing after a colliery explosion in China earlier this week have been confirmed dead, state media reported Wednesday, in the country's latest mining accident. The bodies of the last 15 were retrieved from the Jinshangou mine in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing in the early hours, the official Xinhua news agency said. Only two workers escaped Monday's blast

Islamabad, Nov 2: In a jolt to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a probe into the Panama Papers scandal involving corruption allegations against the family of the beleaguered premier. The Supreme Court heard several identical petitions by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan and others to investigate charges of corruption against Sharif and his

Washington, Oct 31: Hillary Clinton holds a slim lead over Donald Trump, a new national poll shows just over a week before the epic US presidential election. An ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll released yesterday showed the Democratic presidential nominee Clinton ahead 46 per cent to 45 per cent -- narrower than Saturday's 2-point Clinton edge. In CNN's Poll of Polls, which averages results

Washington, Oct 31: US President Barack Obama has celebrated Diwali by lighting the first-ever diya in the Oval Office of the White House and hoped that his successors would continue the tradition. Obama, who was the first president to celebrate Diwali personally at the White House in 2009, talked about this momentous occasion in a Facebook post soon after he kindled the diya in his Oval Office