Afghanistan explosion: Several killed in blast at hotel in Kabul

Kabul, 19/1:Several people were killed ​in a blast in ‌Afghan capital ⁠Kabul’s Shahr-e-Naw ‌area, the Taliban interior ministry said on Monday. Acording ​to preliminary reports, a number of people ‌were killed ‌and injured,” Interior Ministry ⁠spokesperson Abdul Mateen Qani told Reuters, adding that ⁠details ⁠would be released ‌later.  

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Did not get Nobel prize, no longer feel obligated to ‘think purely of peace’: Donald Trump writes to Norway’s PM

Washington DC, 19/1:President Donald Trump told Norwegian ​Prime Minister Jonas ‌Gahr Stoere ⁠he ‌no longer felt an “obligation to think purely of peace” after ​the Norwegian Nobel Committee did not award him ‌the ‌Nobel Peace Prize, as he ⁠repeated his demand for control of Greenland ⁠in a letter ⁠seen by  Reuters. The ‌Norwegian ‌prime minister’s…

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High-speed train derails, smashes into another in Spain; 21 killed, 100 injured

Spain, 19/1:A high-speed train derailed and smashed into another oncoming train in southern Spain on Sunday, pushing the second train off the tracks in a collision that police sources confirmed to Reuters had killed at least 21 people. The first train was traveling to Madrid from Málaga, on the country’s southern coast, and was privately…

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“If you go with them, you are finished’: Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal warns parties against allying with BJP

New Delhi, 18/1: Rajya Sabha MP and senior lawyer Kapil Sibal on Sunday warned smaller parties against aligning with the BJP saying that the saffron party’s strategy is to join their bandwagon to usurp power and then marginalise them. Sibal said the strategy was successful in Bihar where it first aligned with JD(U) and has…

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6 dead, many trapped after fire breaks out at shopping mall in Pak’s Karachi, probe ordered

Karachi, 18/1: Six people, including a firefighter, were killed, and several others remained trapped more than 12 hours later after a massive fire broke out at a huge shopping mall in Pakistan’s Karachi, officials said Sunday. Sindh Inspector General of Police (IG) Javed Alam Odho told the media on site that the fire at the…

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Verified death toll in Iran protests reaches at least 5,000

Tehran, 18/1:An Iranian official ​in the region said on Sunday the authorities had verified at least 5,000 people had been killed ​in protests in Iran, including about 500 security ‌personnel, blaming “terrorists and armed rioters” ⁠for killing “innocent Iranian” The official, ‌who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue, also told…

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