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In familiar ritual, Obama visits and consoles families of Oregon shooting victims

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President Barack Obama, in a ritual that has become both familiar and frustrating to him, travelled to Oregon on Friday to console families of the victims of a community college shooting that once again sparked a push for US gun reform. The president, a Democrat who tried but failed to tighten firearms laws after previous […]

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China Completes Construction of Lighthouses in Disputed South China Sea

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China has completed the construction of two lighthouses in the disputed South China Sea, the official Xinhua news agency reported, as tensions in the region mount over Beijing’s maritime ambitions. A completion ceremony was held for the lighthouses on Huayang Reef and Chigua Reef in the Spratly islands, Xinhua said late on Friday. The United

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Saudi diplomat, wife and daughter booked for raping, torturing domestic helps

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A diplomat at the Saudi Arabia embassy in New Delhi has been booked for rape while his wife and daughter have been booked for torturing domestic helps in this Millennium City, Haryana Police said Tuesday. But the Saudi embassy, dismissing the charges as “completely false” and “contrary to facts in our possession”, said they would

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Singh Is Bliing box office collection: Here’s how much Akshay Kumar’s film has earned in a week

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Akshay Kumar’s latest Bollywood outing, Singh Is Bliing, has been going quite strong at the box office ever since it was released. The film opened to a fabulous response at the ticket windows, with the first day pouring in Rs 20.67 crore. The second and third days saw a business of Rs 14.5 crore and

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Nitish Katara murder: SC rejects death sentence plea, says it wasn’t honour killing

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The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea by Neelam Katara seeking enhancement of sentence to death for Vishal and Vikas Yadav who have been convicted for murdering her son Nitish Katara in February 2002. An apex court bench of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice R Banumati said that while it was a murder

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Russia hits 60 Islamic State targets, kills 300 terrorists in airstrike on Syria

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Russia’s air force hit 60 Islamic State targets in Syria over the past 24 hours and killed around 300 militants, the Defence Ministry said on Friday, in Moscow’s most intense raids yet since it first launched strikes on Syria 10 days ago. In the previous updates, the Moscow had been reporting hitting about 10 targets

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Minor Earthquake Hits Delhi-NCR Region, No Damage Reported

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Minor tremors were felt in parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region areas on Saturday after an earthquake of magnitude 3.0 on the Richter Scale struck. The tremors were felt around 1:40am and remained for a few seconds. According to the Indian Meteorological Department website the intensity was slight and the epicenter was Delhi-NCR

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After Dadri, mob beats up four over alleged cow slaughter in UP’s Mainpuri

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As tensions over Dadri lynching incident refuse to subside, a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri on Friday almost lynched four men accused of killing and skinning a cow. Violence broke out in the area after some people were allegedly caught slaughtering a cow. People in Nagaria village set police jeeps on fire and damaged several

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Jazbaa review: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is sincere, but needs a better director than Sanjay Gupta

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Writer/director Sanjay Gupta needs to give a whole box of throat lozenges to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Apparently he is convinced and in turn has convinced the actress that that a tormented mother has to scream her guts out to show her distress over the kidnapping of her little daughter. If that’s not pathetic enough, she

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Sania-Hingis battle past Goerges-Pliskova to enter China Open semi-final

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The Indo-Swiss tennis combine of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis were tested but eventually made their way through to enter the women’s doubles semifinals of the $5.7 million China Open here on Thursday. The top seeds took an hour and 20 minutes to beat the German-Czech pairing of Julia Goerges and Karolina Pliskova 7-6(5), 6-4

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Shiva Thapa and Vikas Krishan enter quarters of Boxing World Championships

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Shiva Thapa came from behind to notch up a stunning knockout victory, while Vikas Krishan out-witted his more fancied rival in an exhausting triumph to enter the quarterfinals on an all-win day for Indian boxers at the World Championships today. Asian silver-medallist Vikas (75kg) got the better of European silver winner and fourth seeded Pole

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ISL 2015: Delhi Dynamos edge Chennaiyin FC to register first win in entertaining encounter

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Delhi Dynamos shrugged off the disappointment of their opening round defeat as they beat Chennaiyin FC by a solitary goal to record their first win in a closely contested match of the second season of Indian Super League football tournament. Brazilian Anderson Sebastio Cardoso’s goal from the spot in the 8th minute turned out to

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India v South Africa, 3rd T20I as it happened: Match called off; SA clinch series 2-0

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The third and final T20 international between India and South Africa was abandoned on Thursday without a ball being bowled because of a wet outfield, allowing the visitors to clinch the three-match series by 2-0 margin. The abandonment of the game after just a passing evening shower again showed the poor drainage system of the

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Russia testing modern weapons and deploying military in Syria, says Nato

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Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg warned that Russia is testing “some of their most modern weapons” in Syria, while carrying out a great military deployment. “What is going on in Syria of course is of importance for Nato because we see that Russia is testing some of their most modern weapons,” Stoltenberg said on Thursday

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India, China hold border mechanism talks to review measures for avoiding stand-offs

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Indian and Chinese officials have held talks in Beijing to review measures to avoid stand-offs between their troops along the disputed border amid allegations by the PLA that removal of a surveillance hut by Indian soldiers last month was a violation of consensus to maintain peace. The Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China

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