UN special envoy Angelina Jolie visits Iraq's Mosul
Updated : 8 months ago IST
Mosul [Iraq], June 17 (ANI): Prominent Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, who is the Special Envoy of the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR, visited Mosul in northern Iraq on Saturday less than a year after the city's liberation from three years of Islamic State (IS).
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13 dead in Indonesia boat capsize
Updated : 8 months, 1 week ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], June 13 (ANI): At least 13 people died on Wednesday when a passenger boat, packed with holidaymakers, heading to home to celebrate the end of Ramadan, capsized off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
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Kabul suicide blasts: Death toll rises to 13
Updated : 8 months, 1 week ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 11 (ANI): The death toll in the suicide bombing incident on Monday at the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) in Darulaman, Kabul has risen to 13, as confirmed by Kabul officials.
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Taliban announces 3-day Eid ceasefire
Updated : 8 months, 1 week ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Jun 9 (ANI): The Afghan Taliban has announced a three-day ceasefire over the Eid holiday, two days after the government-announced ceasefire here.
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PM Modi, Widodo together fly kites in Jakarta
Updated : 8 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], May 30 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a five-day, three-nation visit, flew kites along with Indonesian President Joko Widodo at a Kite exhibition in Jakarta on Wednesday.
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Explosions rock Afghanistan's Jalalabad
Updated : 8 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] May 27(ANI): At least two back to back explosions were reported in Afghanistan's Jalalabad city on Sunday.
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Will carry out more attacks during Ramadan, says Taliban
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 19 (ANI): Despite Afghan President Ashraf Ghani appealing to terrorists to not plot suicide attacks during Ramadan, the Taliban has vowed to carry out more such attacks during the period.
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Afghan President Ghani condemns deadly Jalalabad blasts
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 19 (ANI): Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday strongly condemned the deadly suicide blasts at the Jalalabad cricket stadium, which claimed eight lives.
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8 dead, 45 wounded in Jalalabad blasts
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Jalalabad [Afghanistan], May 19 (ANI): At least eight persons were killed and 45 others were wounded in three back to back explosions at a cricket stadium in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad of Nangarhar province, confirmed the Afghan officials on Saturday.
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Afghan President appeals militants to refrain from violence during
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 17 (ANI): Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has appealed the Taliban group and other militants to refrain from violence in the wake of the holy month of Ramadan.
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Malaysian PM announces parliament dissolution
Updated : 10 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], April 6 (ANI): Malaysia's scandal-tainted prime minister Najib Razak on Friday announced the dissolution of the parliament, making the country officially brace the election season.
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Islamic Scholar charged with rape
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Paris [France] Feb 3 (ANI): A Swiss-born scholar of Islam, Tariq Ramadan, has been charged with rape based on allegations made against him by two women in France.
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