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9 killed & 40 injured in gun and suicide attack in northwest Pakistan

Peshawar, Jul 21: At least seven persons, including four policemen, were killed and around 40 others injured in northwest Pakistan on Sunday in a terror strike on a checkpost and a subsequent suicide blast by a burqa-clad woman at a hospital where the victims of the first attack were shifted....

Hindu priest attacked by ‘nationalist’ near temple in US

New York, Jul 21: A Hindu priest was attacked by a 52-year-old self-proclaimed nationalist while he was walking down the street in his religious garb near a temple in Floral Park, New York, according to a US media report.

Swami Harish Chander Puri said that around 11 a.m. (local...

Mere window dressing, made no difference: US on Hafiz Saeed’s previous arrest

Washington, Jul 20: The Trump Administration Friday expressed doubts over Pakistan’s intentions in arresting terrorist Hafiz Muhammed Saeed, the mastermind of the 2001 Parliament attack and the 2008 Mumbai attack, saying his previous arrests made no difference either to his activities or that of his outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba.

“We’ve seen...

24 Feared Dead In Suspected Arson Attack at Japan Animation Company

Tokyo, Jul 18: A suspected arson attack on an animation production company in Japan killed 24 people and injured dozens more on Thursday, with flames gutting the building in the city of Kyoto.

Police said the fierce blaze appeared to have been started deliberately but there was no immediate...

JuD chief Hafiz Saeed arrested, sent to judicial custody

Lahore, Jul 17: Mumbai terror attack mastermind and chief of the banned Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) Hafiz Saeed was arrested on Wednesday by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Pakistan's Punjab Province and sent to jail on judicial remand, officials said.

Saeed, who has several cases pending against...

U.S. House condemns Trump’s ‘racist’ tweets in extraordinary rebuke

Washington, Jul 17: In a remarkable political repudiation, the Democratic-led U.S. House voted on Tuesday night to condemn President Donald Trump’s “racist comments” against four Democratic Congresswomen of colour, despite protestations by Mr. Trump’s Republican congressional allies and his own insistence he hasn’t “a racist bone in my body.”...

Second man on moon recalls 'magnificent desolation'

Los Angeles, Jul 17: Fifty years after their history-making voyage to the moon, Buzz Aldrin recalls the first moments of the Apollo 11 launch being so smooth that he and his two crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins, were unsure precisely when they left the ground.

He remembers the...