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Pakistan airline workers end strike
Islamabad, Feb 10: Workers of the Pakistan's state-owned airlines announced that they have called off strike against a government privatisation plan after they were invited for talks to listen to their demands.
The nearly one-week strike…
Obama announces action plan to boost US cybersecurity
Washington, Feb 10: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday rolled out a national action plan aimed at taking near-term actions and putting in place a long-term strategy to strengthen the country's cybersecurity.
Under Obama's plan, a…
Israel plans to encircle itself with security fences
Jerusalem, Feb 10: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he has plans to encircle Israel with fences because the Mideast is filled with "wild beasts" that imperil the Jewish country.
"We are preparing a multi-year…
Medicinal marijuana scheme to go before Australian Parliament
Melbourne, Feb 10: A piece of legislation which would make the cultivation of medicinal marijuana legal throughout Australia will go before Federal parliament on Wednesday.
The establishment of a nationwide cannabis cultivation scheme…
Four People killed in German train collision
Munich, Feb 9: At least four people were killed and scores injured in a train collision in southern German state of Bavaria on Tuesday, police said.
Traffic on the railway line, near the city of Rosenheim, was suspended following the…
Sikh American actor barred from flight in Mexico
Washington, Feb 9: Sikh American actor and designer Waris Ahluwalia says he was barred from boarding a flight home to New York from Mexico because he refused to remove his turban during a security check.
Ahluwalia, according to the New…
Cameron expects stronger ties with China in 2016
London, Feb 9: The Britain-China relationship will be "greater" this year after a "golden" year of 2015, Prime Minister David Cameron said here on Monday.
Cameron said this at a reception in his office attended by about 100…
40,000 S. Sudanese on brink of catastrophe: UN
Khartoum, Feb 9: At least 40,000 South Sudanese citizens are threatened to starve to death due to escalating food insecurity in the new-born state, UN agencies said Monday.
"South Sudan is facing unprecedented levels of food insecurity,…
75 IS men killed, as forces regain areas in Iraq’s Ramadi
Ramadi (Iraq), Feb 9: At least 75 Islamic State militants were killed on Monday as the Iraqi security forces recaptured two areas from the extremist militants in eastern and east of the flashpoint city of Ramadi, the capital city of Iraq's…
Former Nepali PM Sushil Koirala dies at 80
Kathmandu, Feb 9: Former prime minister and president of the Nepali Congress (NC), Sushil Koirala died here of Pneumonia early on Tuesday. He was 80 years old.
Koirala died at his residence in Kathmandu's Maharajgunj area. Doctors told…