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Sunil Mahajan 11 January 2016
The world is scared of the impact of China’s economic troubles today. It should worry more about future actions of an economically strong and militarily powerful country with the dictatorial governance that has no respect for the liberal-democratic framework of the West    Human...

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IANS 06 January 2016
Seoul : South Korean vowed on Wednesday to forge a united stance with the international community to punish Pyongyang for going ahead with a fourth nuclear test.   Seoul will ensure that North Korea will pay the price for testing a hydrogen bomb, calling it a grave provocation and...

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IANS 05 January 2016
Washington : New green-related technologies developed and refined by NASA’s aeronautics researchers during the past six years can help commercial airlines save more than $250 billion dollars.   These new technologies, developed under the purview of NASA’s Environmentally Responsible...

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Amitava Mukherjee (IANS) 05 January 2016
The scenario in the Middle East is changing fast and at the centre of it is neither the United States or the coalition of countries it leads nor Russia but Saudi Arabia, the Wahabbi country which had so long acted as the source and ultimate prop of many Islamist activities in the Arab world....

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IANS 04 January 2016
Beijing : Trading on China's stock markets were suspended on Monday after shares tumbled seven percent, triggering the new "circuit breaker" mechanism on the first trading day of 2016.   The early end to trading on Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses, the first in the history of China's...

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IANS 04 January 2016
Kabul : Gunshots continued to ring out Monday at the Indian consulate in Afghanistan's Mazar-e-Sharif city that a group of armed men attacked a day before, an official said.   Thw attackers had taken up positions in a residential home located in front of the consulate and were firing...

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IANS 04 January 2016
Mumbai : A Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul was recalled before take-off after an unattended mobile phone found aboard here on Monday morning, officials said.   The mobile was found on a seat following which the flight, which had just been declared 'chocks off' was stopped before...

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IANS 04 January 2016
Kabul : A group of armed men late Sunday attacked the Indian consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, the provincial governor spokesperson told media.   Officials said attackers have taken up positions inside a residential home located in front of the...

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IANS 04 January 2016
Riyadh : Saudi Arabia's foreign minister announced on Saturday to cut diplomatic ties with Iran and asked all Iranian diplomats to leave within 48 hours, local media reported.   Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said he informed the UN Security Council of the attack on the Saudi...

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Olga Pierce  and   Marshall Allen (ProPublica) 04 January 2016
In the US, patients harmed during medical care have few avenues for redress. The Danes chose to forget about fault and focus on what’s fair   COPENHAGEN 2014 It was a distressingly close call. A patient had been sent home from the hospital with instructions to take a common medication...

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IANS 31 December 2015
A US judge has cleared a class-action suit against social networking giant Facebook from investors claiming it failed to fully disclose its risks at the time of its 2012 share offering, a media report said.   Judge Robert Sweet on December 11 certified the class-action suit which...

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IANS 31 December 2015
As the debate over Free Basics and net neutrality entered an interesting phase in India, Egypt has decided to shut down Facebook's controversial free internet service, media reported on Thursday.   Although authorities in Egypt were yet to announce the reason behind it, telecom...

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IANS 29 December 2015
The Israeli Supreme Court on Tuesday partially accepted an appeal by former prime minister Ehud Olmert in a corruption case under which he will serve 18 months in prison instead of the six years handed out to him.   Olmert, 70, will begin serving his sentence on February 15, next...

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IANS 29 December 2015
China's central bank released detailed regulations for online payment services by non-bank institutions in the latest effort to contain possible risks in the booming internet finance industry.   The new rules issued on Monday require real-name registration for all non-bank payment...

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IANS 28 December 2015
 At least eight international sea freight shipping companies were fined 407 million yuan ($62.86 million) for price fixing, Chinese authorities said on Monday.   The companies included Japan's NYK Line and "K" Line and Chile's CSAV, Xinhua cited the National Development and Reform...

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Robert Faturechi (ProPublica) 28 December 2015
ProPublica picks for the year’s most notable in-depth stories on campaign finance, from newsrooms around the US     The millions of dollars being spent on the presidential race by super PACs, secretive nonprofits and the candidates themselves could again make this election cycle...

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IANS 24 December 2015
At least 25 people were killed and 107 injured on Thursday as a horrific fire engulfed parts of a hospital in Saudi Arabia's Jizan city, media reports said.   The Saudi civil defence directorate said the blaze broke out at the Jizan General Hospital at about 2.30 a.m., Al Jazeera...

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IANS 24 December 2015
Shanghai Dragon TV has employed an artificial intelligence (AI) robot as a weather reporter on its live breakfast show.   "I'm happy to start my new work on the winter solstice," said "XiaoIce" during her debut on Tuesday morning.   "XiaoIce" is actually a piece of software...

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Nishant Arora (IANS) 23 December 2015
When it comes to science, exploring the future and digging into the past are equally crucial to enable the human race to learn, survive and thrive. Here, 2015 will be remembered for two path-breaking discoveries - the presence of water on Mars and discovery of a brand new human...

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IANS 23 December 2015
In a setback to future Mars exploration, NASA has decided to suspend the planned March 2016 launch of the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission to Mars.   The decision follows unsuccessful attempts to repair a leak in a section...

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