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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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MILITARY & INTELLIGENCE
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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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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
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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...
22 January 2018
Iraq has issued a death sentence to a German woman after finding her guilty of belonging to the ISIS terrorist group.
She was sentenced to death by hanging for providing “logistical support and helping the terrorist group to carry out crimes,” said court spokesman Abdel Settar Bayraqdar.
“The accused admitted during interrogations that she left Germany for Syria then...
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TECH
16:16 20.01.2018(updated 16:17 20.01.2018)Get short URL
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The French company Zapata, which first brought hydroflight to the world, has tested its new machine, named Zapata Ezfly. Sputnik has taken a look at the craziest flying vehicles that are poised to replace self-driving cars as the hottest trend.
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Zapata tested a jet-powered aerial “Segway,” which looks like a small platform equipped...
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VIRAL
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Genie would be laughing.
Four men in India, one of them a police driver, landed behind bars Thursday after they attempted to sell a "genie in a bottle" to an unsuspecting man in West Bengal's Burdwan city.
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According to NDTV, the con began after Tapas Roy Choudhury, the victim, was informed by a friend that there was a merchant in Burdwan selling a $15,000 "ghost" that would grant...
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MIDDLE EAST
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Pulling over to the side of the road to pray is not uncommon among bus drivers and other motorists in the United Arab Emirates. Now, however, they will most likely think twice before doing so in the nation's capital.
Abu Dhabi Police have announced that drivers who stop their vehicles in undesignated...
