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Pakistan summons US ambassador after Trump's tweet
Reuters, Published on 02/01/2018
» ISLAMABAD: Pakistan summoned the US ambassador in protest against US President Donald Trump's angry tweet about Pakistan's "lies and deceit", while Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif dismissed the outburst as a political stunt.
Egypt executes 4 Islamic militants over 2015 attack
AP and online reporters, Published on 02/01/2018
» CAIRO: Egypt has executed four Islamic militants following their conviction by a military tribunal of killing three military academy students in a 2015 bomb attack.
Pakistan summons US ambassador over angry Trump tweet
Published on 03/01/2018
» ISLAMABAD: Pakistan civilian and military chiefs on Tuesday rejected "incomprehensible" US comments after President Donald Trump tweeted angrily about Pakistani "lies and deceit", with Islamabad summoning the US ambassador.
Kenya: 5 policemen killed by suspected al-Shabab extremists
Associated Press, Published on 03/01/2018
» NAIROBI, Kenya: A Kenyan official says suspected members of the Somalia-based extremist group al-Shabab have killed five police officers in the northern county of Mandera.
Iran marshals pro-regime rallies, declares protests over
Agencies, Published on 04/01/2018
» TEHRAN: Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard Corps on Wednesday declared an end to the anti-establishment unrest that has roiled the Islamic Republic and left about 20 people dead over the past week.
Suspected Russian jets ‘kill at least 20’ near Syrian capital
Reuters, Published on 04/01/2018
» AMMAN: Suspected Russian jets killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens early on Thursday when they dropped bombs on two residential buildings in a besieged rebel enclave east of the Syrian capital, residents and a war monitor said.
Indonesia shrinks danger zone around grumbling Bali volcano
Reuters, Published on 04/01/2018
» JAKARTA: Indonesia shrank the exclusion zone around a grumbling volcano on the resort island of Bali on Thursday after fears of an imminent eruption, allowing farmers to return to their homes
Trump wishes for better libel laws after book slams him
Associated Press, Published on 07/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: Plainly agitated by a new book portraying him as dysfunctional, President Donald Trump is bemoaning his country’s “very weak” liberal laws and making the case that he’s “like, really smart” and, indeed, a “very stable genius”.
Indonesia struggles with human trafficking networks
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 08/01/2018
» Tyas Weningsih Putri left her village in Kendal, Central Java in August 2016 to try her luck for a second time as a migrant worker in Malaysia.
Syria's death toll in Idlib car bomb rises to at least 25
Associated Press, Published on 08/01/2018
» BEIRUT: A Syrian monitoring group and paramedics in the northwestern city of Idlib say the death toll from a massive car bombing there the previous evening has risen to at least 25. Also, nearly 100 people were wounded.