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Taliban has not cut ties with Al-Qaeda: Afghan Army Chief Zia

Kabul [Afghanistan], October 27 (ANI): Taliban is yet to cut ties with al-Qaeda and other terrorist organisations, said the Afghan ...

US Calls Death of al-Qaida Official a Major Setback for Terror Group

WASHINGTON - The United States has confirmed the death of a high-ranking al-Qaida official in Afghanistan, describing it as a ...

US Officials Say Dead al-Qaida Leader Not Group's Number 2

WASHINGTON - The United States is confirming the death of a high-ranking al-Qaida official in Afghanistan - only it appears ...

Karabakh troops down two Azerbaijani drones

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army downed two Azerbaijani drones on Monday, October 26, Karabakh presidential spokesman Vahram Poghosyan said ...

Trump says Karabakh ceasefire 'is holding'

PanARMENIAN.Net - U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday, October 26 that the ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone is holding.Azerbaijan, ...

Karabakh shoots down one more Harop drone

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Defense Army destroyed another Israeli reconnaissance and combat drone IAI Harop of the Azerbaijani Armed ...

Armenia PM's wife enlisting to defend Karabakh

PanARMENIAN.Net - Anna Hakobyan, the wife of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, has revealed that a 13-strong female squad, including ...

Heavy fighting reported in Karabakh's south-east

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Defense Ministry representative Artsrun Hovhannisyan reported heavy fighting in the south-east of the Nagorno-Karabakh frontline on Monday, ...

UFC Khabib's last outing too hot for Tajikistan

Mixed Martial Arts champion Khabib Nurmagomedov bowed out of top-level fighting undefeated last week, but his diehard fans in Tajikistan ...

US Airstrike Kills 5 Taliban Fighters in Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD - The United States said Monday it had conducted an airstrike in central Afghanistan, killing at least five Taliban ...

SA tennis star Lloyd Harris jumps 10 spots in ATP rankings

South African tennis ace Lloyd Harris has jumped 10 spots to No 80 in the latest ATP rankings released on ...

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27% of passengers on Mideast flight to Dublin diagnosed with Covid-19

An outbreak of coronavirus in Ireland has been attributed to a flight from a country in the Middle East into ...

NASA says water on moon far more widespread that previously thought

The U.S. space agency, NASA, reported Monday it has confirmed water can be found in sunlit areas of the moon, ...

America, damaged and divided, prepares to go to the polls

US President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden are battling for the presidency of a deeply divided country, ...

20 year prison term for Californian man convicted of terrorism

RIVERSIDE, California - A U.S. man has been sentenced to twenty years in federal prison for conspiring to commit terrorist ...

U.S. vice president's chief of staff diagnosed with coronavirus

WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's Chief of Staff Marc Short is the latest White House official to ...

Parallels: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar & America's Political System

The proceedings by the U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearings of President Trump's nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace ...

Business

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Stocks in Asia flat to lower, U.S. dollar steadies

SYDNEY, NSW, Australia - Stocks in Asia were relatively quiet on Tuesday compared to the volatility and substantive sell-offs on ...

State of Victoria in Australia relaxes coronavirus restrictions

CANBERRA, Australia, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has welcomed the easing of strict coronavirus restrictions in ...

U.S. stocks shatter as Covid-19 deaths in America top 225,000

NEW YORK, New York, Oct. 26 (Xinhua/Big News Network) -- Wall Street's major averages closed sharply lower on Monday as ...

UK needs to decide between bargaining power and negotiation strategy

LONDON, UK - Reaching an agreement in trade deals is, in the best of times, a long process. There are ...

Hong Kong's Hang Seng only glimmer of light on Asian markets

SYDNEY, NSW, Australia - Stocks in Asia were limp on Monday, although the Hong Kong market showed some life.In Tokyo, ...

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