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Nobel laureate Malala gets US Liberty Medal
World | Oct 22, 2014, 10:30 AM ISTWashington: Pakistan's Malala Yousufzai, the youngest ever Nobel laureate, has been awarded the US Liberty Medal, media reports said.The child rights activist has pledged her $100,000 award to education in Pakistan, Geo TV reported.The Liberty
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Indian colts beat Australia, meet Great Britain in final
Hockey | Oct 18, 2014, 06:59 PM ISTJohor Bahru (Malaysia:The Indian junior hockey team continued their winning spree by thrashing Australia 6-2 in their fifth and final league match of the fourth Sultan of Johor Cup at the Taman Daya Hockey Stadium
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Britain to host Indian diaspora convention
India | Oct 14, 2014, 04:57 PM ISTNew Delhi: British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will inaugurate Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention Oct 17 in London, the first ever such event to be held in Britain.A British High
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Britain holds national exercise to test Ebola preparedness
World | Oct 12, 2014, 06:36 AM ISTLondon: British authorities on Saturday held a national exercise to test preparedness for an Ebola outbreak in the country, following recent enhanced screening among arrivals from countries affected by the disease.Senior ministers, government departments and
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Britain to conduct Ebola screening among travelers
World | Oct 10, 2014, 06:20 AM ISTLondon: Britain will conduct enhanced screening for Ebola among people traveling from countries affected by the disease, Downing Street announced on Thursday.Enhanced screening will "involve assessing passengers' recent travel history, who they have been in
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Britain, Ireland inks visa deal to benefit Chinese, Indian travellers
World | Oct 07, 2014, 07:04 AM ISTLondon/Dublin: Britain and Ireland on Monday inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on visa cooperation to allow Chinese and Indian visitors to travel to the two island nations on a single visa.The landmark visa deal
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Britain probes death threat to Maldives ex-president
World | Oct 06, 2014, 08:56 PM ISTColombo: British police have started investigating a death threat sent to Maldives' former president Mohamed Nasheed, a media report said.Nasheed had lodged a complaint with British Metropolitan Police Services - Counter-Terrorism Command regarding a death
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Britain deploys more war planes to strike IS in Iraq
World | Oct 04, 2014, 06:13 AM ISTLondon: Two more British Royal Air Force (RAF) war planes will join the military operation to tackle the Islamic State (IS) threat in Iraq, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Friday.The new deployment of
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Britain conducts first airstrike against IS targets
World | Oct 01, 2014, 06:30 AM ISTLondon: Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) military jets have conducted their first strikes on an Islamic State (IS) heavy weapon position in Iraq, the British ministry of defence said on Tuesday.In the course of an
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Britain joins fight against Islamic State group
World | Sep 27, 2014, 07:32 AM ISTLONDON: Britain, Belgium and Denmark on Friday joined the U.S.-led coalition of nations that are launching airstrikes on the Islamic State group in Iraq, committing warplanes to the struggle against the extremists.The European lawmakers flatly
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Scottish referendum: Beckham backs 'No' vote
World | Sep 15, 2014, 06:02 PM ISTLondon: Former captain of the English football team David Beckham expressed his support Monday for the "No" vote on the independence of Scotland and asked Scots not to leave a link with Britain that is
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Britain verifying video of aid worker's beheading
World | Sep 14, 2014, 06:54 AM ISTLondon: The UK Foreign Office said late Saturday it was "working urgently to verify" a video purporting to show beheading of a British hostage by the Sunni militant group Islamic State (IS) in Syria, media
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Prison suicide rate rises in Britain
World | Sep 12, 2014, 07:55 AM ISTLondon: The number of prisoners who took their own lives in England and Wales from 2013-14 increased by 64 percent, according to an independent investigation released on Thursday.The prisons complaint watchdog Prisons and Probation Ombudsman
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Britain to send arms worth USD 2.6 mn to Iraq
World | Sep 10, 2014, 08:34 AM ISTLondon: The British government will send a consignment of heavy machine guns and ammunition worth 1.6 million pounds (2.6 million dollars) to Iraqi government to help fight the Islamic State (IS), the British defence ministry
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Britain to open medical centre in Sierra Leone
World | Sep 09, 2014, 07:04 AM ISTLondon: British military and humanitarian experts will set up a medical treatment centre for victims of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, a British official announced on Monday.Britain's support follows a direct request from the
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New anti-terror measures to be introduced in Britain: David Cameron
World | Sep 02, 2014, 08:43 AM ISTLondon: British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday said his country will introduce a slew of measures to prevent terror suspects from travelling abroad, imposing tougher constraints on suspected extremists in the country."To confront the
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Iraqi forces break militant siege of Shiite town
World | Aug 31, 2014, 05:23 PM ISTBaghdad: A military spokesman and a lawmaker say Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen have broken a two-month siege imposed by the Islamic State extremist group on the northern Shiite Turkmen town of Amirli.Army spokesman
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Afghan Sikh stowaways were trapped in container for 18 hours
World | Aug 19, 2014, 07:35 AM ISTLondon: Sikh men, women and children found in a shipping container in Britain were fleeing persecution in Afghanistan and had been trapped in the airless compartment without food or water for 18 hours, their translator
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Barack Obama affirms strong ties with Britain
World | Jul 22, 2014, 07:06 AM ISTWashington: US President Barack Obama and Ed Miliband, leader of the British opposition Labour Party, on Monday affirmed the strong ties that bind the US and Britain, the White House said in a statement.The president
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Britain's William Hague steps down as foreign secretary
World | Jul 15, 2014, 08:20 AM ISTLondon: British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Monday he will stand down as foreign secretary after four years to serve as leader of the British House of Commons."I will not stand as an MP