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Lahore, Aug 17: A Pakistani court on Saturday ordered framing of murder charges against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his brother and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz and 19 others over violence in June near Canada-based cleric Tahirul Qadri's headquarters here, which killed 14 of his supporters. The Lahore Sessions Court hearing the case related to the Model Town clashes ordered the police to

New Delhi, Aug 13: Four Indian doctors, who claim they are being forced to treat Ebola patients against their will in Nigeria, want to return home and appealed to the Indian government to facilitate this. The Abuja-based Indian private hospital Primus where they are working, meanwhile, appealed to them not to abandon their duties. The Indian High Commission in Nigeria is also in touch with the

Geneva, Aug 12: The UN has named three experts to an international commission of inquiry into possible human rights violations and war crimes committed by both sides during Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip. William Schabas, a Canadian professor of international law, will head the panel whose other members are Doudou Diene, a veteran UN human rights expert from Senegal, and Amal

Washington, Aug 8: The United States has conducted its first airstrikes against ISIL terrorists in northern Iraq, the Pentagon has announced. The Pentagon said two FA-18 fighter jets dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on the militants near the Kurdish city of Irbil on Friday. Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said the terrorists were using artillery to shell Kurdish Peshmerga forces

Perth /Australia, Aug 7: Dozens of Australians tilted a train on Wednesday to free a commuter whose leg was trapped between a carriage and a platform, with authorities praising their efforts as an example of "people power". The man was boarding in the western Australia city of Perth when he slipped and became jammed in the five-centimetre (two-inch) gap between the carriage and the station

Washington, Aug 6: Reports outlining the excesses of the U.S.' surveillance programmes this week noted that the country's terrorist tracking system, called the Terrorist Screening Database, was monitoring 280,000 people, nearly 40 per cent of all those included, despite them being categorised as “no recognised terrorist group affiliation.” This group was closely tracked by U.S. law enforcement as

Longtoushan/China, Aug 5: More than 400 people have died in an earthquake that devastated a Chinese village, state media said on Tuesday, as relatives faced the stark probability that rescuers would only find the remains of their loved ones. The death toll in the southwestern province of Yunnan had risen to 407, state broadcaster CCTV said on a verified Twitter account, as concerns mounted over a

Kathmandu, Aug 3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday personally handed over a Nepalese youth to his parents here having nurtured him for 16 years. 26-year-old Jeet Bahadur, who is currently pursuing BBA in Ahmedabad, had come to India in 1998 along with his brother looking for work . Bahadur came in contact with Mr. Modi in Ahmedabad over a decade back and was since looked after by him. He

Jerusalem, Jul 28: Thousands of people took part in the funeral of a 27-year-old Indian-origin Israeli soldier killed after being hit by a mortar shell near the Gaza Strip border while Israel was holding fire under a UN-brokered humanitarian truce. Barak Refael Degorker, killed on Saturday night, was laid to rest yesterday in a military cemetery in his hometown of Gan Yavne. The bereaved family

Ouagadougo/Burkina Faso, Jul 25: French officials dispatched a military unit to secure the site in restive northern Mali where an Air Algerie plane crashed with the loss of 116 people. France's interior minister said Friday that terrorism cannot be excluded as a cause for the tragedy, though it was likely due to bad weather. French president Francois Hollande announced Friday that there were no