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North Carolina, Nov 3: President Barack Obama pressed Democrats black and white to vote in droves for Hillary Clinton Wednesday, warning Donald Trump was a threat to hard-earned civil rights, the country and the world. Painting the choice next Tuesday in the starkest terms yet, America`s first black president trashed Trump as "uniquely unqualified" to be president. Clinton remains the firm

Beijing, Nov 2: All 33 miners missing after a colliery explosion in China earlier this week have been confirmed dead, state media reported Wednesday, in the country's latest mining accident. The bodies of the last 15 were retrieved from the Jinshangou mine in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing in the early hours, the official Xinhua news agency said. Only two workers escaped Monday's blast

Islamabad, Nov 2: In a jolt to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a probe into the Panama Papers scandal involving corruption allegations against the family of the beleaguered premier. The Supreme Court heard several identical petitions by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan and others to investigate charges of corruption against Sharif and his

Washington, Oct 31: Hillary Clinton holds a slim lead over Donald Trump, a new national poll shows just over a week before the epic US presidential election. An ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll released yesterday showed the Democratic presidential nominee Clinton ahead 46 per cent to 45 per cent -- narrower than Saturday's 2-point Clinton edge. In CNN's Poll of Polls, which averages results

Washington, Oct 31: US President Barack Obama has celebrated Diwali by lighting the first-ever diya in the Oval Office of the White House and hoped that his successors would continue the tradition. Obama, who was the first president to celebrate Diwali personally at the White House in 2009, talked about this momentous occasion in a Facebook post soon after he kindled the diya in his Oval Office

Washington, Oct 31: Over 650,000 emails have been found on a laptop shared by Hillary Clinton's close aide and her husband as the Democratic presidential nominee's woes escalated just over a week before the election with the FBI set to review the newly-discovered data. The FBI received the necessary search warrant yesterday to look into the emails belonging to Clinton's aide Huma Abedin as part of

Daytona Beach (US), Oct 30: Hillary Clinton today called "unprecedented" and "deeply troubling" the FBI's decision to re-open its investigation into the Democratic presidential nominee's use of private email server while secretary of state, with just over a week to go for the election. Clinton and her campaign pressed America's top cop, FBI Director James Comey, to put out the "full and complete

Washington, Oct 29: Stunned by FBI's decision to re-open its investigation into Hillary Clinton's email scandal, her campaign has raised serious doubt over the agency's move just days before the presidential elections and sought more information about the probe. "It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election. The Director owes it to the

London, Oct 29: Bob Dylan has finally accepted his Nobel prize for literature, the Swedish Academy that awards it has said, breaking his silence on the win that he said left him "speechless". Asked "if I accept the prize? Of course", the US singer-songwriter said in a call to the academy this week, around a fortnight after he was named laureate on October 13. "The news about the Nobel Prize left

Washington, Oct 28: Hillary Clinton is "absolutely ready" to be the US' commander-in-chief on day one as the Democratic presidential nominee and former secretary of state has more experience and exposure than any candidate "in our lifetime", First Lady Michelle Obama has said. During a rare joint appearance with Clinton at a North Carolinaelection rally on Thursday, Michelle contrasted Clinton's