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India refuses to grant Pakistani pilgrims visas
India continues to violate the 1974 Pakistan-India Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines
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African Mona Lisa' smashes estimates at London auction
The portrait of Tutu is a national icon in Nigeria, and of huge cultural significance
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Civilians stay put despite 'pause' in Syria Ghouta bloodshed
Bombardment quietened since the Kremlin ordered a daily "humanitarian pause" but no residents left home
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Pakistani student scores gold at international math competition
A total of 180 teams belonging to 17 countries from around the world competed at the event
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US warns law enforcement partners of spreading Islamic State threat
US State Department designated 7 Islamic State linked groups
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Sridevi's death in Dubai highlights delays in repatriating deceased migrant workers
'Thousands of migrant workers die in the Gulf yearly; this is the first time the wait for bodies is being discussed'
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Senators to force vote against US involvement in Yemen war
Lawmakers urge US withdrawal from the conflict
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Thai tourism body says it opposes 'sex tourism'
Although prostitution is illegal in Thailand, it is tolerated along with brothels
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Singapore's planned terror response stokes concerns over press freedom
Proposed law prohibits anyone from taking videos or photographs of area of a terror attack
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Astronomers detect 'cosmic dawn' signal from earliest stars in the universe
Revolutionary observations suggest first stars appeared 180m years after big bang, may hold information on dark matter
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US Senate passes bill promoting ties with Taiwan
In 2016, similar move from US sparked protest from China as it saw US-Taiwan relations breaking One China policy
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Indonesia brings together former militants and attack survivors
Gathering part of a broader deradicalisation push by authorities in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country
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The real reason to worry about Italy’s election
Sunday’s vote more likely to result in a hung parliament than rather than a disruptive new government
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New York to pay Muslim women forced to remove hijabs
women offered $180,000 to take off headscarves by law department
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Hamburg Islamist knife attacker gets life in prison
He surprised the court in a recent hearing appearing with his beard shaved off, showing remorse
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China's top paper says reform does not mean life-long presidency
New amendment will likely be approved at this month’s annual meeting of China’s largely rubber stamp parliament
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German 'military advisor' to Taliban arrested in Afghanistan
Gereshk police chief Ismail Khplwak says the man is the 'military adviser of Taliban leader Mullah Nasir'
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Sex abuse scandal widens to Britain's foreign aid agency
DFID has sharply criticised the aid sector and threatened to cut funding to charities tangled in the sex scandal
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'Bittersweet victory' for Moroccan women facing domestic violence, activists say
Newly passed law criminalises ill-treatment of women but fails to define domestic violence, outlaw marital rape
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World's first hand-painted film vies for an Oscar
Working in Poland's Baltic port city of Gdansk, artists based their oil paintings on scenes shot on film with actors
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Aid convoy blocked in Syria despite UN ceasefire order: official
Top UN officials for humanitarian aid and political affairs lash out at Security Council members over 'inaction'
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Antarctica: a laboratory for climate change
Presence in Antarctica of plants proving resistant to extreme conditions has sparked hope for a warming planet
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Pakistan, India need to sit and talk on border tensions: US State dept spokesperson
Spokesperson reiterated there is no military solution in Afghanistan, ultimately has to be a political solution
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Saudi-led airstrikes kill 9 Yemeni civilians
Coalition also impose air and sea blockade to prevent weapons from reaching Houthis
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US detention of Pakistani at Guantanamo Bay has no legal basis, says UN body
UN Working Group report says prisoner should be released immediately, given a right to compensation
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Trump asks Congress for broad bill on guns, schools after shooting
Trump cautiously considers changing gun laws due to pressure by a wave of student activism
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Driving not 'be all' of Saudi women's rights: princess
King Salman announced in September that Saudi women would be allowed to drive from June
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Vatican sexual abuse envoy completes Chile visit
Priest Karadima accused of abusing children in 2010 and convicted by Vatican to life of penitence
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In Syria's Ghouta, rescuers keep finding bodies
600 civilians have been killed in 10 days of air strikes
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US deports 121 Pakistanis, 33 Indians in crackdown on illegal immigrants
Indian authorities say a flight full of deportees proceeded to Islamabad from New Delhi to drop off Pakistanis
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Russian hacker group breached German ministries, took data
Germany's federal cyber protection agency had no immediate comment on the reports
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India cabinet clears first anti-human trafficking bill
The new bill made a clear distinction between the trafficker and the trafficked
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Bride refuses to marry groom for being bald on wedding day
The groom chose a different woman from the same village to tie the knot
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Facebook censors 30,000 years old statue of ‘Venus of Willendorf’
The 4 inch figurine from the early stone age is the most popular and best-known prehistoric representation of a woman
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Nobel committee file police case after Trump is nominated for peace prize
The name of the 2018 winner will be announced in early October.
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Century old French murder still a mystery after 'animal' bone discovery
The investigators had determined two bone fragments found during a private excavation
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Rwanda to shut 700 churches, one mosque over safety, hygiene
Most of the churches that will be closed are small, with congregations of hundreds of worshippers
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Opposite sex marriages rate in Britain at lowest level since 1862
It was the first full calendar year during which same sex marriage was allowed
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Egypt train collision kills at least 12
The cause of the accident not immediately clear
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Saudi Crown Prince expected to visit U.S. March 19-22: source
Reports emerge amid US lawmaker's concern over Trump administration's efforts to sign nuclear accord with Saudi Arabia
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Mandatory exercise at the office, Sweden's latest craze
Bunge says "If you don't want to exercise or be a part of the company culture, you have to go,"
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How the blind use clicks to 'see': study
At zero, 45 and 90 degree angles, the participants were correct 100 percent of the time, the researchers found
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Indonesia calls off deadly landslide search, 18 believed dead
An avalanche of mud and rock cascaded down a steep slope burying victims as they worked their rice fields
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Czech man pretending to be militant faces terror charges: report
Accused allegedly caused train crashes while pretending he was a militant in bids to provoke backlash against Muslims
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'Beast from the East' sends Siberian cold blast across Europe
British Airways cancelled roughly 60 flights in and out of London Heathrow airport
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Saudi crown prince says reforms aimed at 'cancer' of corruption
You have a body that has cancer everywhere, the cancer of corruption. You need to have chemo
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Barbra Streisand says she cloned her dog twice
She collected cells from the mouth and stomach of her dying dog
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Fresh violence mars first day of Syria enclave 'truce'
the first day of a five-hour daily was marred by violence that saw seven people killed
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Xi confidant set to become China's new spy master - sources
The country looks to clean up its security apparatus and plug intelligence gaps
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UN chief plans new initiative to boost global disarmament agenda
According to UN, there are still some 150,000 nuclear weapons in the world