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Kuala Lumpur: Beijing on Friday narrowly won an IOC vote for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games that secured its place in sporting history. Now, Beijing will be the first do it – and in the span of just 14 years. “You are taking a lot of assumptions….”

But that has made it harder to stamp his authority on a country enduring war with Islamic State, chronic corruption, Kurdish separatism, personal rivalry among political leaders and a financial crisis caused by collapsing prices for oil exports.

The mother of a teenage soldier killed in Iraq said families are “ready for the truth” as she backed a call for legal action over the publication of the Chilcot Inquiry.

“Pakistan condemns these deadly attacks in Afghanistan in the strongest terms”, the ministry said, adding that Pakistan will continue to support and facilitate an “Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process” with the Taliban.

Nokia is plotting a return to the consumer technology arena as it hires software experts and begins testing new products. This may not get Nokia back on top, but it’s certainly an interesting strategy for when Nokia makes its return to the mobile phone market.

Syrian government airstrikes on rebel-held areas near Damascus killed at least 35 civilians and more than hundreds are injured, on Wednesday.

That line of thinking bodes well for shower head start-up Nebia, which managed to solicit funding from Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook.

“If I am treated fairly that’s the way it’s going to be but I want to keep that door open”.

Guinea-Bissau’s President Jose Mario Vaz has dismissed the government following a rift with Prime Minister Domingos Pereira.

Three unions announced yesterday that they would walk out for four days, potentially crippling the tube network for almost a whole working week – but today sources at Aslef indicated that they would stay out of the industrial action.

Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said that the differences between his country’s firm declaration and France’s less categorical one were “down to a choice of words”.

A Toledo municipal judge asked the Ohio Supreme Court’s Board of Professional Conduct if he could refuse to marry a gay couple because of his religious briefs.

A military court on Thursday awarded death sentences to seven terrorists involved in Army Public School attack and Safoora Chowrangi gun attack, the incidents that left around 150 people dead including 140 school children.

“We’ve obviously seen Prime Minister Milanovic’s statement about the reported murder of a Croatian citizen Tomislav Salopek by ISIL terrorists in Egypt. We understand the government of Croatia is still working to confirm this brutal act”.

With four days left to go for the monsoon session, the Congress continued to paralyse both houses of parliament, forcing finance minister Arun Jaitley on 10 August to go hammer and tongs against the situation prevailing in the Rajya Sabha.