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Florida, Nov 3: A gunman has killed two people and wounded five others at a yoga studio in Florida's capital before killing himself, officials said. Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo told reporters Friday night that the man shot six people and pistol-whipped another after walking into the studio, which is part of a small Tallahassee shopping centre. The suspect then fatally shot himself

Kabul, Nov 3: At least 18 militants from Taliban and three from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) were killed as deadly clashes erupted in the Easter Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on Saturday. The 201 Silab Corps of the Afghan Military have said in a statement that the latest clashes were erupted in Zawa area of Khogyani district, khama press reported. Nangarhar has been among the

Colombo, Nov 3: A Sri Lankan court on Friday ordered the arrest of the country’s top military officer over the abduction and murder of 11 people during the Tamil civil war. Colombo Fort magistrate Ranga Dissanayake reprimanded police investigators for failing to act on a previous order to detain Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne. “The court ordered that the Admiral be arrested before November 9,” a

Tallahassee, Nov 3: A gunman killed two people and injured several others at a yoga studio in Florida's state capital Tallahassee Friday before apparently taking his own life, the local police chief said. "About 5:47 pm the Tallahassee Police Department responded...in reference to a shooting," police chief Michael DeLeo said at a press conference. "Upon arriving on scene, the officers found

Nov 3: US President Donald Trump has suggested he was open to a new comprehensive deal with Iran, saying that till then the toughest-ever sanctions on the Middle-East country that kicks off on Monday would continue. "The United States remains open to reaching a new, more comprehensive deal with Iran that forever blocks its path to a nuclear weapon, addresses the entire range of its malign actions

Jakarta, Nov 2: The pilot of a Lion Air flight from Indonesia's Bali island on Sunday made a radio alert minutes after take-off due to technical problems, but they were overcome and he pushed on to Jakarta. The same jet crashed on another flight hours later, killing all 189 people on board. Herson, chief of the airport authority for the Bali-Nusa Tenggara area, told Reuters that after the alert

Beijing, Nov 2: Imran Khan arrived in Beijing on Friday in what is termed as the most significant visit to China by a Pakistani Prime Minister in recent years as the all-weather allies grapple to iron out differences over the multi-billion CPEC and Islamabad approaching 'friendly nations' to avoid a tough IMF bailout package. Khan arrived in the early hours for his four-day visit, official sources

Washington DC, Oct 31: US defence secretary James Mattis, has called for ceasefire in Yemen while attending an event on Tuesday. "We have go to move toward a peace effort here, and we can't say we are going to do it some time in the future," Mattis said while speaking at the United States Institute of Peace. "We need to be doing this in the next 30 days", Sputnik International reported. Yemen's

Islamabad, Oct 31: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a Christian woman sentenced to death by hanging for blasphemy against Islam, a ruling likely to set off mass street protests by hardline Islamists. Asia Bibi, a mother of four, has been living on death row since 2010 when she became the first woman to be sentenced to death under Pakistan’s draconian blasphemy

Cambridge, Oct 31: Nobel Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai is being honoured by Harvard University for her work promoting girls' education. Harvard's Kennedy School says Yousafzai will be awarded the 2018 Gleitsman Award at a December 6 ceremony. Yousafzai became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 when she was recognized for her global work supporting schooling for all children