KATHMANDU, (APP/AFP): An Indian mountaineer has died on Mount Everest and two of his teammates are missing, expedition organisers said Monday, as the death toll from the Himalayan climbing season rose to five. Subhash Pal reached the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) summit on Saturday but collapsed while descending the Hillary Step ice wall and died the following […]
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Indian climber dies on Everest, two others missing
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Thai police shoot dead Rohingya migrant
BANGKOK, (APP/AFP): Thai police shot dead a Rohingya man who escaped from an immigration detention centre Monday in a mass breakout in the country’s south where scores of migrants are being held. The man was killed as he threw rocks down a hill at officers scrambling to catch up with him and 20 other men […]
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Putin to visit Greece in first EU trip in a year
MOSCOW,(APP/AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Greece this week, the Kremlin said on Monday, his first official trip to an EU member state in almost a year. He will meet Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on the May 27-28 visit to discuss economic ties and energy projects, the Kremlin said […]
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Turkey’s incoming PM working on new cabinet
ANKARA, (APP/AFP) – Turkey’s incoming premier Binali Yildirim said Monday he was working on a new cabinet after being handed the task by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, without saying when the new lineup would be announced. “It is not the first time a government is formed in Turkey. A list of the cabinet is being […]
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Iran denies killed Taliban leader was in the country
TEHRAN, (APP/AFP) – Iran on Monday denied reports that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour entered Pakistan from the Islamic republic before being killed in a US drone strike, state media reported. US President Barack Obama on Monday confirmed that Mansour had been killed in a US air strike, hailing his death as an “important […]
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Iraq forces launch assault on IS bastion Fallujah
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq, (APP/AFP) – Iraqi forces have launched a major assault to retake Fallujah, the scene of deadly battles during the US occupation and one of the toughest targets yet in Baghdad’s war on the Islamic State group. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, made the announcement early Monday and then […]