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26 January 2018
On Thursday morning, Donald Trump is expected to make his debut at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Ahead of Trump’s arrival, world leaders have essentially used their speeches to take turns shading the 45th president’s “America First” approach.
On Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that, as a country that wants to help “solve the problems of the world,”...
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Laura Plummer was sentenced to three years in prison for taking Tramadol tablets into Egypt CREDIT:TWITTER
Telegraph Reporters
26 JANUARY 2018 • 8:51AM
ABritish woman jailed in Egypt over painkillers is reportedly preparing to be freed within the next two days.
Laura Plummer, 33, from Hull, was sentenced to three years in prisonfor taking 290 Tramadol tablets into the country.
But, according to The Sun, her family...
Missing Japanese mafia boss arrested after tattoos go viral
The 74-year-old accused of a gang murder in Japan 15 years ago was arrested in Thailand CREDIT: REUTERS
Nicola Smith
11 JANUARY 2018 • 6:11PM
Thai police have arrested a retired Japanese crime boss who was on the run for 15 years, after his elaborate tattoos went viral on Facebook.
Shigeharu Shirai, 72, a leading figure...
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The legend of Padmaavati simply doesn’t suit the zeitgeist.
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It seemed futile to weigh in on the violent bellicose protest against the cinematic version of the legend of Padmaavati or Rani Padmini.
It was the same old, same old debate of freedom of expression vs people’s sentiments vs historical fact vs creative licence. All of it being manipulated towards some...
A Madhya Pradesh police team came across illegal mining operations in Sindh River and immediately started seizing the digging machines when the goons reached the spot and outnumbered the few policemen.
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Bhopal: Members of the sand mafia made a daring murder attempt on an inspector in Bhind district in Madhya Pradesh by trying to run him over with a sand-digging machine...
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Thirty-three people have been arrested in Italy on suspicion of being members of the Chinese mafia, police say.
The early morning raids targeted a group accused of controlling the transport across Europe of products made in China and by Chinese in Italy.
The "China Truck" operation was part of an...
People gather at the site of twin car bombs in Benghazi, Libya, Jan. 23, 2018.
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Twin car bombings in Benghazi, Libya, killed at least 33 people and wounded dozens more Tuesday.
The first car blew up outside a mosque in the al-Salmani neighborhood. A second bomb went off at the same spot about 30 minutes later with the apparent intention of...
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The US has redeployed a squadron of A-10s to Afghanistan to boost joint efforts against the Taliban, particularly targeting the group’s drug facilities.
The deployment comes as the anti-Daesh campaign in Syria and Iraq scales down and as demand for precision strikes and close air support increases in Afghanistan under US President Donald Trump's South Asia strategy.
The...
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TECH
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In the last 10 years, hackers have stolen $1.2 billion worth of the cryptocurrencies bitcoin and ether, according to Lex Sokolin, global director of fintech strategy at Autonomous Research LLP.
"It looks like crypto-hacking is a $200 million annual revenue industry," Sokolin said, adding that cybercriminals have stolen more than 14 percent of the bitcoin and ether supply over the...
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EUROPE
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In Sweden, war crimes are handled by a special police commission, which saw a drastic surge in suspected war criminals, the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported. In 2014, it received 12 notifications from the Swedish Migration Board; this number jumped to 52 in 2017. By contrast,...
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On Tuesday, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) held a session aimed at assessing the progress Israel made during its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a UN-backed process designed to assess the human rights record of a state and make recommendations for improvement.
In the course of the struggle between the Israelis and...
Oil majors line up for new Qatari gas projects
24 Jan 2018 - 10:15
FILE PHOTO: Qatar's Minister of Energy H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada gestures as he speaks to the media in Doha, Qatar February 8, 2017. REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon/File Photo
By Dmitry Zhdannikov | Reuters
DAVOS, Switzerland: US and European oil majors are piling in with offers to help Qatar develop new...
22 January 2018
The Indian government announced the abolition of the military deal with Tel Aviv. Reports indicate that India is afraid of Israel stealing Delhi’s military secrets.
Israeli intelligence spy controversy on Pentagon, which occurred over the past decades, faced with the American pressure resulting in the collapse of Israeli Ministry of Defence’s Scientific Information Office.
The office recently co-signed with...
22 January 2018
It seems that the United States has now started to take gradual measures against Pakistan and freezing security-related funds to Islamabad is the last step taken in this respect until now.
State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert lately announced at a press briefing that the Trump administration was suspending all security assistance to Pakistan because the country was not...
