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Air emergency in Delhi: smog halts life, schools closed
By AgenciesSouth Asia
India’s capital New Delhi switched schools to online classes on Monday until further notice as worsening toxic smog surged past 60 times the World Health Organisation’s recommended daily maximum.

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Scientists Find ‘Future Earth’ Around A Dying Star
By Trans Asia NewsScience
What happens at the end of our world? Scientists have found an Earth-like planet orbiting a star 4,000 light years away from the solar system that may reveal our planet’s ultimate fate.
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Scientists Baffled As Earth Spins Faster Than Usual, Making Days Shorter
By Trans Asia NewsScience
Scientists have been left baffled after discovering the Earth is spinning faster than normal – making days shorter than usual. New measurements by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory have shown.
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Mount Everest's Highest Glacier Rapidly Losing Ice: Study
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Ice on a glacier near the summit of Mount Everest that took millennia to form has shrunk dramatically in the last three decades due to climate change, a new study has shown.
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'If India fails to offer new evidence on JeM Chief,China will not change its position'
By TANSSouth Asia
On the listing of JeM Chief Masood Azhar, China believes that if India cannot provide new evidence, it will not change its stance on the matter, read an editorial in the state run.

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3,000 Daesh Fighters Surrender In Last Bastion

Around 3,000 members of the militant Islamic State have surrendered from the group's last holdout in Syria, Kurdish-led forces said on Tuesday, as air raids and shelling resumed after a brief lull.

West Asia

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Mar 13, 2019
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Rouhani’s Iraq Visit Undercuts U.S. Iran Policy

This week, President Hassan Rouhani’s three-day Iraqi visit marks an important turning point in Iran-Iraq relations. Rouhani aims to boost bilateral ties and, simultaneously, circumvent suffocating.

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Kaveh L. Afrasiabi

Mar 12, 2019
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Samjhota Express departs from Lahore for India

The train runs between the two neighboring countries on Mondays and Thursdays and the service was halted last week due to escalating Pakistan-India tensions.

South Asia

TANS

Mar 04, 2019
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Attack on paramilitary base as Iran holds revolution anniversary

Mohammad Hadi Marashi, provincial deputy governor for security affairs, told the IRNA state news agency that the attack targeted a base of the Basij, a paramilitary force affiliated with the powerful Revolutionary Guards

West Asia

TANS

Feb 02, 2019
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Demonstrations in Yemen Signals Unbowed Resistance To Saudi War

Today we march to announce our readiness to confront the Saudi alliance more than ever before,” said Abdulrahman Al-Hamran, a demonstrator in al Sabeen, Yemen. Al-Hamran.

West Asia

TANS

Nov 22, 2018
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US senator claims Britain's MI6 is planning a fake chemical weapons attack on Syria

Virginia state senator Richard Black claims that UK's MI6 intelligence service was planning a chemical weapons attack on the Syrian people, which it would then blame on government of Bashar al Assad.

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Laura Vozzella

Sep 15, 2018
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Iraq sentences 19 Russian women to life for joining Islamic State

Iraq on Sunday sentenced 19 Russian women to life in prison for joining the Islamic State group, the latest in a series of heavy verdicts against foreign women linked to the militants.

West Asia

TANS

Apr 30, 2018
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Aid workers struggle as South Asia floods affect over 16m

More than 16 million people have been affected by floods in South Asia, aid workers and officials said, with heavy rains and damaged roads hampering relief efforts amid severe food shortages and a growing risk.

South Asia

TANS

Aug 19, 2017
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US-led coalition killed 744 Iraqis and Syrians in June

In its report, Airwars – a London-based collective of journalists and researchers that use social media, eyewitness reports, and other sources to compile its data – said that the concurrent assaults on Mosul in Iraq.

West Asia

TANS

Jul 13, 2017
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Yemen forces kill 6 of Saudi's mercenaries

Yemeni army soldiers, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees loyal to the Houthi Ansarullah movement, have killed half a dozen of Saudi Arabia's mercenaries in Yemen's Jawf and Ta'izz provinces.

West Asia

TANS

Jul 01, 2017
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U.S. looks to bolster Saudis in Yemen

The United States is considering ways to boost military support for the Saudi-led fight against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen, believing military pressure is needed to prod the militants into a negotiated end.

West Asia

TANS

Apr 20, 2017
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US plan against Daesh includes Pak-Afghan region

US Defence Secretary James Mattis has delivered to the White House a new plan for combating the militant Islamic State group (Daesh), which calls for using both military and non-military means for defeating.

South Asia

TANS

Mar 03, 2017

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Eleven Afghan police killed in insider attack

An Afghan policeman linked to the Taliban shot dead 11 of his colleagues at a checkpoint in the southern province of Helmand, officials said Tuesday, in the latest so-called “insider attack”.

Central Asia

TANS

Feb 28, 2017

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