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A group of ex-servicemen demanding “One Rank One Pension” Fridayresisted eviction from the protest site at Jantar Mantar here by Delhi Police and NDMC which were trying to clear the area in view of security concerns ahead of Independence Day.

Foreign-policy failures have a way of compounding, and that’s what seems to have happened as U.S. officials said Thursday they believe that Islamic State militants used mustard gas this week against Kurdish forces in Iraq.

It said the initial blast then ignited further explosions nearby.

In criticising Washington for not cancelling the plan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov last week went as far as to say that U.S. President Barack Obama “was not telling the truth” in comments he made in 2009, linking the need for a missile shield to what he...

The BSF figures in the Limca Book of Records by planting over 309,000 saplings in 30 minutes previous year.

Around 1 000 protesters had gathered at the mission to push for reparations ahead of Saturday’s 70th anniversary of the end of Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule over the Korean peninsula.

Acclaimed Cuban painter Michael Mirabal, known for his thought-provoking paintings of flags – sometimes made with flowers and barbed wires – will be one of the guests of Secretary of State John Kerry at a reception following the flag raising ceremony at the U.S....

“The ground realities and fear psychosis in Kashmir give ample proof that government of India has miserably failed in J&K and doubts everybody in Kashmir”, MLA Langate said.

Around 37 people have been killed in clashes between Islamic State fighters and an Islamist group that is challenging the grip of the ultra-hardliners on the city of Sirte in central Libya, residents said.

More than a thousand firefighters were sent in, but they were stopped as authorities tried to figure out which chemicals were burning – and their risk. Ca(C2) and TDI react violently with water and reactive chemicals, with risk of explosion. Seventy of them are in critical...

A dozen firefighters were among the dead, state media said, adding that 71 sustained serious injures.

Tracy – who served in the Marines Corps for 30 years – was a master gunnery sergeant entrusted with lowering the flag at the embassy in Havana when the US severed relations with Cuba on January 4, 1961.

“The United States joins you in celebrating the anniversary of Pakistan’s independence, and we renew our commitment to strengthen our partnership to promote greater peace and prosperity for both of our nations, now and for generations to come”.

The remarks were carried by Al-Manar, the television of the powerful Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, which is supported by Iran.

The state had passed a law in 2012 to repeal the death penalty only for future crimes.