WASHINGTON, (APP): The Nuclear Supply Group will decide on India’s application for membership, a US State Department spokesman observed on Friday, saying any country, including Pakistan, could apply for it. At a regular briefing, when asked if the US State Department was confident that it had generated a consensus in NSG in favour of India, […]
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US says NSG to decide on India’s membership
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Sri Lanka says 100 missing in landslides are dead
COLOMBO, (APP/AFP): Around 100 people still missing following landslides in Sri Lanka last week are believed dead, authorities said Saturday after failing to find signs of life under tonnes of mud. The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said 67 bodies had been recovered from the worst hit central district of Kegalle where 99 people were still […]
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World Heritage sites at risk from climate change:UN report
UNITED NATIONS, (APP): Some 31 natural and cultural World Heritage sites in 29 countries across the world are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, a new report released by the United Nations has found. The World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate report documents climate impacts including increasing temperatures, melting glaciers, […]
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Demonstrators face off at Trump rally in California
SAN DIEGO, (APP/AFP): Thousands of pro- and anti-Donald Trump demonstrators faced off Friday outside a rally for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in San Diego. Authorities said 12 people were arrested, including one for trying to climb over a railing, but there was no major violence or mass arrests as at Trump rallies in other […]
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SpaceX makes fourth successful rocket landing
MIAMI, (APP/AFP): SpaceX launched an Asian communications satellite into a distant orbit Friday and for the fourth time managed to recover the rocket that did the work. Under blue skies dotted with clouds, the shiny white Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 5:40 pm (2140 GMT) carrying the Thaicom 8 satellite. […]
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Prayers offered in US for PM Sharif’s successful operation
WASHINGTON, (APP): Prayers were offered in several mosques in the capital Washington and the neighbouring state of Virginia and Maryland for early recovery of Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif who will undergo an open-heart surgery in London next week. At Friday prayers, worshipers prayed for the successful operation and early recovery of the Prime Minister […]