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Saturday, 5 August 2017 :  Pakistan’s new prime minister on Friday called for an investigation into allegations that opposition leader Imran Khan harassed a woman lawmaker, charges Khan dismisses as revenge for his role in last week’s ouster of then-premier Nawaz Sharif. A furious social media backlash threatening violence against …

w Saturday 5 August A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck south Mindanao island in the Philippines on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.  The quake’s epicentre was 14 miles (22.5 km) east of the city of General Santos, which has a population of almost 600,000. Source by Internet

Saturday 5 August A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck south Mindanao island in the Philippines on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.  The quake’s epicentre was 14 miles (22.5 km) east of the city of General Santos, which has a population of almost 600,000. Source by Internet

Friday, 4 August 2017 :  U.S. Senate committee approved a bill on Thursday that would cut off $300 million in annual U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority unless it stops making what lawmakers described as payments that reward violent crimes. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 17-4 for the measure, …

Friday, 4 August 2017 :  Energy-hungry Myanmar is in initial talks to buy electricity from China, according to officials and documents reviewed by Reuters, in the latest sign of warming ties with Beijing under leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Since taking office in April last year, Suu Kyi has sought …

Friday, 4 August 2017 :  Firefighters have extinguished a blaze that swept through one of the world’s tallest residential buildings in Dubai early on Friday, forcing occupants to flee their homes as burning debris showered down the sides of the 79-storey tower. Dubai’s civil defence authorities said firefighting squads put …

Tuesday, 1 August 2017 WASHINGTON: The United States is ready to deploy the remaining parts of an advanced missile defence system to South Korea, the Pentagon said Monday with tensions rising over North Korea’s latest missile test, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. The remark by Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt …

Tuesday, 1 August 2017 BANGKOK: Even in the absence of more rain, it will take at least 10 days for floodwaters to drain from the heavily inundated Sakon Nakhon province into the Mekong River through the neighbouring province of Nakhon Phanom. Authorities estimated that the drainage would take about 11 …

Tuesday, 1 August 2017 BEIJING: China is looking to predict and prevent crime with the help of AI technology. Facial recognition company Cloud Walk is helping police develop a system that tracks individuals’ movements and behaviour to assess their chances of committing a crime. The big-data rating system warns police …

Monday, 31 July 2017 The total solar eclipse that will sweep across the entirety of the continental United States on 21 August has the country’s emergency services officials bracing for impact. The celestial event, the first of its kind in nearly a century, has so many stargazers hyped up that …