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Rome, Nov 16: Around 100 people were missing, feared drowned, in the Mediterranean today after a migrant dinghy capsized off Libya, according to rescue teams frantically searching for survivors in darkness and rough seas. German NGO Jugend Rettet, whose boat was at the scene, said 23 survivors had been rescued by an oil tanker which was first to reach the stricken boat. "The crews are searching

Clay, Nov 15: The director of a West Virginia development group and a mayor are under scrutiny after a racist post about first lady Michelle Obama caused a backlash and prompted calls on social media for both women to be fired. Clay County Development Corp director Pamela Ramsey Taylor made the post following Donald Trump's election as president. Her post said, "It will be refreshing to have a

Islamabad, Nov 14: Pakistan today said at least seven of its soldiers were killed in "unprovoked" firing by Indian troops across the LoC following which Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif asserted that the country is "fully capable" of defending its territory against "any aggression". Seven Pakistani soldiers were killed at the LoC in the Bhimber sector in an alleged ceasefire violation by Indian troops

Christchurch, New Zealand, Nov 14: At least two people were killed and more fatalities were feared after a powerful 7.8 earthquake struck New Zealand today, while residents in coastal areas fled following tsunami warnings. As dawn broke there was scant information from many rural villages in the South Island, which were isolated by landslips and fractured telephone communications as strong

Washington, Nov 14: US President-elect Donald Trump has said he would take USD 1 as his salary a year and not the USD 400,000 that comes with the US president's job and will refrain from going on any vacation. Asked whether he was going to the president's salary, 70-year-old Trump said, “No, I'm not gonna take the salary. I'm not taking it,” confirming a promise he made in a campaign video in

Washington, Nov 13: In line with his hardline immigration stance, President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to immediately deport up to three million undocumented immigrants, saying "we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate". "What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people

Washington, Nov 13: A 24-year-old Muslim school teacher in the US was told to hang herself with her headscarf in a handwritten anonymous note which said the scarf "isn't allowed anymore". Mairah Teli, a teacher at Dacula High School in Gwinnett County, located outside Atlanta in Georgia, posted a picture of the note on her Facebook page last week. "Mrs Teli, your head scarf isn't allowed anymore

Washington, Nov 13: Hillary Clinton has blamed the FBI for her loss at the hands of her Republican challenger Donald Trump, claiming the decision to revive the probe into her email accounts stopped her momentum towards a historic win. "There are lots of reasons why an election like this is not successful. Our analysis is that Comey's letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to

Karachi, Nov 13: At least 52 people, including women and children, were killed and more than 100 others injured today in a suicide bombing at a popular sufi shrine in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, an attack claimed by the Islamic State terror group. The blast occurred in the remote Hub region in Khuzdar district of the province while devotees were participating in a Sufi dance called

Beijing, Nov 12: India will not become a "pawn" for Japan to contain China, a Chinese state-run media today said, accusing Japan of exploiting Sino-India disputes for its own interests. "Japan wants to use the disputes between China and India to court India to help contain China. Japan seeks to urge India to meddle in the South China Sea issue, even at the cost of changing its long-held position