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A UN official in Syria says aid groups need 150 million to provide urgent relief to a quarter-million people recently displaced by separate offensives by the Syrian government outside Damascus and by Turkish-led forces in the north. UN coordinator Ali al-Za’atari says at least 80,000 people have fled the government’s offensive in the eastern Ghouta suburbs, where shelling and airstrikes ...

India has welcomed the launch of an ambitious decade for action on water, expressing hope that concerted action by the international community will help in meeting the challenges of ensuring sustainable solutions to the requirement of clean water. “We welcome (the) initiative to launch the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development on the World Water Day,” India’s ...

Vladimir Putin cruised to victory in Russia`s presidential election on Sunday, giving him at least another six years in power as Moscow`s relations with the West become increasingly strained. Putin, who has ruled Russia for almost two decades, recorded his best ever election performance with more than 76 percent of the vote, but the opposition cried foul. Monitors reported ballot ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Stephen Hawking, the British physicist and black-hole theorist who brought science to a mass audience with the best-selling book “A Brief History of Time,” has died. He was 76. Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in England in the early hours of Wednesday morning, a spokesman for his family said in an emailed statement. “We ...

At least 49 people were killed when the Bangladeshi plane crashed and burst into flames near Kathmandu airport in the worst aviation disaster to hit Nepal in nearly three decades. Officials said there were 71 people on board the US-Bangla Airlines turboprop plane from Dhaka when it crashed just east of the runway and skidded into a nearby football field. ...

China’s one-party political landscape yesterday changed as the country’s rubber-stamp parliament ratified a historic constitutional amendment abolishing the two-term limit for President Xi Jinping, paving the way for his continuation in power perhaps for life. Set for his second five-year term as President this month, 64-year-old Xi, the most powerful leader in recent decades heading the ruling Communist Party of ...

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who have been trading insults and threats of nuclear annihilation for months, have agreed to meet to negotiate an end to Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program, South Korean and US officials said Thursday. No sitting American president has ever met with a North Korea leader. The meeting, to be held in ...

An emergency has been imposed for ten days after continuous violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Sri Lanka. It is being told that due to the tension between Buddhists and Muslim communities over the past, conditions of Sri Lanka has worsened. According to the news, an emergency note has been announced after the cabinet note. The Indian cricket is in ...

Stocks in Europe and Asia fell sharply Friday while gold and the yen jumped amid mounting investor anxiety over trade protectionism. U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday announced to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, prompting threats of retaliation across Asia, Europe and North America. The Stoxx Europe 600 dropped 1.3% in morning trading with every sector in negative ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A Pakistani parliamentarian has revealed that Chinese prisoners are working on development projects of the over USD 60 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in the country. Member of the National Assembly Nawab Mohammad Yousuf Talpur of the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) raised security concerns on this issue, and demanded better security arrangements. “I have learnt that ...