 | As many as 79 Pakistani Hindus from Bhaeel community have converted to Islam, Online news agency reported.
The religious conversions took place near Khapro. The group included 20 men, 25 women and 34 children.
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 | In a bid to crack down on forced marriages, the British government has raised the minimum age - from 18 to 21 - at which foreign nationals, mainly women from India, can get marriage visas to enter the country.
The new move came after a long... More |
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 | The US wants to open its doors even wider to students from India for the benefit of the next generation of Indians and Americans, a US official said ahead of a trip to India.
US and India are "engaging more actively and constructively than ever... More |
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 | The war between Mexico's drug cartels and the state has intensified, with a death toll of nine police officers and others this week.
Prosecutors, lawyers and investigators have been targeted in the violence, and in a new twist, corpses are being... More |
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 | The UN mission in Afghanistan received a new one-year mandate to continue assisting the government in Kabul and promote "a more coherent international engagement" with that nation.
The mission was told Friday by the UN Security Council, which... More |
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 | The British government demanded the immediate and safe return of 15 Royal Navy sailors seized at gunpoint by Iranian warships in Iraqi territorial waters.
"We are urgently pursuing this matter with the Iranian authorities at the highest... More |
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 | The UN Security Council is to meet Saturday to consider action on a draft resolution aimed at Iran's nuclear defiance, but a planned attendance by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been cancelled.
Ahmadinejad had planned to appear... More |
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 | A powerful storm swept over two coastal towns in southern Bangladesh, killing at least 11 people, mostly women and children and injuring over 200 others.
The storm, the first ahead of the summer in the country, damaged hundreds of thatched... More |
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 | US and Chinese military officials are discussing the possibility of opening a hotline that would help the two sides avoid "miscalculation and misunderstanding," a top US military leader said Friday.
Marine General Peter Pace, Chairman of the... More |
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 | Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Salam al-Zubaie survived a double bomb attack after Friday prayers, but the attack killed at least three people and wounded 10, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.
A suicide bomber and a car bomb when al-Zubaie,... More |
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