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New York [U.S.], Dec. 21 : Explosions ripped through a fireworks market north of Mexico City on Tuesday, in which at least 29 people were killed as columns of smoke billowws into the sky.According to CNN, Eruviel Avila governor of the State of Mexico s…

London [UK], Dec. 21 : Saudi Arabia has finally admitted that it used UK-manufactured cluster bombs against Houthi rebels in Yemen.The admission came in advance of British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon’s statement that British-made cluster bombs hav…

Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec. 21 : Former Pakistan Supreme Court judge Mr.Justice Javed Iqbal, who headed the Abbottabad Commission set up to conduct a probe after Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was found and eliminated in a covert operation by American …

Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec.21 : Russia has taken serious objection to the ‘leak’ by the Pakistani authorities, in their media, about the visit of Alexander Bortnikov, Head of the Russian External Intelligence service, or the FSB, to Pakistan between No…

New York [United States], Dec.21 : Urging Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani to protect witnesses who are at risk of being victimised by one time warlord Farvadi Sarwar Zardad, Patricia Gossman, one of the witnesses who testified against him 15 year…

Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec.21 : There is a view emerging in Pakistan that the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) could well have the makings of another East India Company, given the kind of control the Chinese are being allowed to have over the 46 …

Kathmandu [Nepal], Dec 20 : Three United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) staff members including two Nepalis who were abducted on November 27 from El Geneina, Sudan, have been safely released.UN refugee agency staffers Sarun Pradhan and …

Berlin [Germany], Dec. 20 : German Interior Minister Thomas De Maiziere said on Tuesday that the authorities are still investigating the suspect of the Christmas market attack in Berlin and his background is not yet fully known.”We are currently interr…

Dhaka [Bangladesh], Dec. 20 : Visiting Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi along with his Bangladeshi counterpart A. H. Mahmood Ali on Tuesday visited the Rohingyas living in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya. The duo visited several blocks in th…

London [UK], Dec. 20 : World leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday expressed their horror at the Berlin Christmas market attack.Putin said, “This crime against peaceful civilians is shocking in its savage cynicism,” reports the…