KATHMANDU, July 6, (APP/AFP) – An Indian couple falsified photographs of themselves at the top of Mount Everest to get their feat certified by Kathmandu, Nepal said Wednesday, after earlier saying the climb was valid. Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod, both police constables, said they reached the top of the world’s highest mountain on May 23 […]
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Nepal says Indian police couple faked Everest photos
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Obama says ready to ‘pass the baton’ to Clinton
CHARLOTTE, July 6, (APP/AFP) – Barack Obama delivered a forceful plea Tuesday for Hillary Clinton to succeed him as president, praising the character of his former secretary of state whose horizon brightened after the FBI recommended no charges be filed over her email scandal. Obama, returning to a swing state that helped elect him in […]
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Dhaka attack neighbourhood falls silent ahead of Eid
DHAKA, July 6, (APP/AFP) – An eerie silence pervades the restaurants and shopping malls in Dhaka’s diplomatic quarter, usually teeming with well-heeled urbanites, now standing empty since the killing of 20 hostages at a popular cafe. Five days after the brutal siege at the Holey Artisan Bakery in the Bangladeshi capital, many establishments remain closed, […]
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Syria’s Assad makes rare appearance outside capital for Eid
DAMASCUS, July 6, (APP/AFP) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad joined Eid ul-Fitr prayers at a mosque in third city Homs on Wednesday in a rare public appearance outside the capital for the end-of-Ramadan holiday. Large parts of Homs were once under the control of rebels fighting to overthrow Assad’s regime but since May 2014 they […]
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Suspected militants seize airport army HQ in Yemen’s Aden
ADEN, July 6, (APP/AFP) – Suspected militants seized the headquarters of the military garrison at Aden airport on Wednesday after killing at least seven soldiers at the base in Yemen’s second city, military sources said. Troops surrounded the headquarters building where between 15 and 20 of the attackers were believed to be holed up, triggering […]
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Six killed, 28 hurt in Taiwan nursing home fire
TAIPEI, July 6, (APP/AFP) – A fire that tore through a nursing home killed six people and injured another 28 in Taiwan on Wednesday. Television footage showed elderly people being evacuated from the facility, some in clothes blackened by smoke. Bodies were found in the private nursing facility on the eighth floor of a ten-storey […]