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London, Jun 14: Fire swept through a high-rise apartment building in west London early Wednesday, killing an six people and sending more than 50 people to area hospitals. Flames shot from windows all the way up the 24-story Grenfell Tower in North Kensington as more than 200 firefighters battled the blaze. A plume of smoke stretched for miles (kilometers) over the capital. “This is an

New York, Jun 13: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "vision for a new India" will also help create jobs in the US, President Donald Trump's Press Secretary Sean Spicer said while announcing Modi's White House visit scheduled for June 26. Addressing the common interests of the two countries in an environment where Trump's promotion of a policy of "Buy American, hire American" is stoking apprehensions

Dhaka, Jun 13: Landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 42 people in Bangladesh, authorities said today. A depression in the Bay of Bengal influenced the weather all over the country yesterday, bringing about incessant rainfall which inundated Dhaka and Chittagong cities. Twenty five people were killed in Rangamati, 11 in Rangunia and Chandanaish upazilas of Chittagong and six in

Washington, Jun 13: The visa ban is about national security and not against any religion, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has said after a US appeals court upheld a decision blocking President Donald Trump's revised executive order imposing a travel ban on six Muslim-majority nations. "President Trump knows that the country he has been elected to lead is threatened daily by terrorists who

Moscow, Jun 13: Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was found guilty of repeatedly calling for unlawful protests and sentenced to 30 days of detention, following a day of nationwide anti-corruption demonstrations, the media reported. Navalny, in court in Moscow, on Monday night accused the judge of helping the police write the justification for his arrest, reports CNN. His wife, Yulia

Delhi, Jun 13: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in the United States on 25th and 26th of June this year on the invitation on President Donald Trump. He will be holding talks with US President on June 26. This will be the first meeting between the two leaders. However, they have spoken to each other over phone three times since Trump's inauguration in January this year. PM Modi last visited US

Lahore, Jun 12: A Pakistani counter-terrorism court has sentenced to death a man who allegedly committed blasphemy on Facebook, a government prosecutor said on Sunday, the first time someone has been handed the death penalty for blaspheming on social media. The conviction of Taimoor Raza, 30, follows a high-profile crackdown against blasphemy on social media by the government of Prime Minister

Paris, June 12: French President Emmanuel Macron’s party is on course for an overwhelming parliamentary majority after Sunday’s first round of voting for the National Assembly that left traditional parties in disarray. Forecasts based on partial results showed Macron continuing his centrist revolution, with his Republique en Marche party (Republic on the Move, REM) and its ally MoDem tipped to win

New Delhi, Jun 11: Chinese President Xi Jinping has reportedly skipped a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during the just concluded SCO summit in Astana after the murder of two Chinese teachers in Balochistan. Though Sharif had met the presidents of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Russia, a customary meeting with Xi was 'conspicuously absent'. Chinese state-run media

Beijing/New Delhi, Jun 10: Amid strife in bilateral ties with China, PM Narendra Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday with the Indian side describing the discussions as "cordial and positive" and noting that the two leaders agreed on the importance of working together. Modi is understood to have thanked Xi for India's accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. "Both leaders