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Baghdad, Oct 4: The IS terrorist group ringleader was reportedly seriously ill after having his food poisoned by an assassin, a media report said. Meals prepared for Baghdadi and three other commanders of the terrorist organisation were allegedly poisoned in Nineveh's Be'aaj district, the Daily Mail reported on Monday. It quoted an Iraqi news agency as saying that four militants, including

Kunduz, Oct 3: The Taliban launched an assault on Kunduz, which was the scene of intense fighting today, one year after the Islamist militia briefly took over the northern Afghan city following a lightning offensive. The assault came just a day before President Ashraf Ghani is due to meet world powers at a major donors conference in Brussels. The attack began in the early hours at the southern and

United Nations, Oct 2: India, the world's third largest carbon emitter, today ratified the landmark Paris climate deal, giving a major boost to the deal which appeared tantalisingly close to enter into force by the end of this year. Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin handed over the Instrument of Ratification signed by President Pranab Mukherjee, to Santiago Villalpando

New Delhi, Oct 2: China has again blocked India's bid at the UN to ban JeM chief Masood Azhar, the mastermind of the Pathankot terror attack. According to highly placed sources, just hours before the deadline earlier today, China requested the UN committee, which is considering a ban on the chief of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), to keep on hold the designation. After the

Washington, Oct 1: The army has often played a prominent role in the governance of Pakistan as democracy has not been tailored to its environment, the country's former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf has said. "Army has always had a role since our independence. It has played a very prominent role in the governance of Pakistan, mainly because of misgovernance by all the so-called

Washington, Oct 1: The United States has strongly objected to threats of nuclear warfare made by Pakistan against India and has conveyed its displeasure to that country in this regard. "We made that (American objection on nuclear threat) clear to them (Pakistan). Repeatedly," a senior State Department official said. The official who spoke on condition of anonymity, however, would not reveal the

Paris, Aug 24: The burkini, a body-concealing women's swimsuit that fits an Islamic dress code, has stirred a controversy in France. In one of the recent cases of crackdown, a Muslim woman was forced to remove her burkini at a Nice beach. Photos have emerged showing police confronting the woman in Nice on Tuesday. At least four police officers accosted a woman who was resting on the shore at the

Nice (France), Jul 15: A truck ploughed into a crowd in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 84 people today in what President Francois Hollande called a "terrorist" attack on revellers watching a Bastille Day fireworks display. The driver was shot dead after barrelling the truck two kilometres through the festive crowd on the palm-lined Promenade des Anglais, sending hundreds fleeing in

New Delhi, Jul 3: The death toll in the Baghdad blasts in two crowded commercial areas has now hit 83 with 176 people injured, a government official confirmed. Iraq Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi toured the site of the blast Sunday morning. The bombings came near the end of the holy month of Ramadan, when the streets were filled with young people and families out after sundown. Video footage

Istanbul, Jun 29: Three suicide bombers opened fire then blew themselves up in Istanbul's main international airport on Tuesday, killing 36 people and wounding close to 150 in what Turkey's prime minister said appeared to have been an attack by Islamic State militants. One attacker opened fire in the departures hall with an automatic rifle, sending passengers diving for cover and trying to flee