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200,000 Afghan refugees return in exodus from Pakistan INTERNATIONAL

200,000 Afghan refugees return in exodus from Pakistan

More than 200,000 Afghan refugees have been repatriated from Pakistan this year, nearly half of them in September alone, UNHCR said Tuesday, the highest number since 2002, after the fall of the Taliban regime.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Minister: 1.1mn Bangladeshis working abroad legalised INTERNATIONAL

Minister: 1.1mn Bangladeshis working abroad legalised

Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Iraq have legalised some 1.1mn undocumented Bangladeshi overseas workers as a result of successful diplomatic efforts of the government.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
UN rights expert plans to probe killings INTERNATIONAL

UN rights expert plans to probe killings

A United Nations rights rapporteur said yesterday she intended to visit the Philippines to investigate President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly war on crime, but was seeking security guarantees for people she planned to speak with.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Ramirez blasts Red Sox past Yankees for series sweep CULTURE

Ramirez blasts Red Sox past Yankees for series sweep

Hanley Ramirez jogged to the top of the dugout steps, flashed a pearly white smile and tipped his cap to an adoring Fenway Park crowd that had called for him.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
World's largest gorillas 'one step from going extinct' INTERNATIONAL

World's largest gorillas 'one step from going extinct'

The world's largest gorillas have been pushed to the brink of extinction by a surge of illegal hunting in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and are now critically endangered, officials said Sunday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Uzbekistan’s leader buried INTERNATIONAL

Uzbekistan’s leader buried

Islam Karimov, president of Uzbekistan for the past quarter of a century, was buried in his home city of Samarkand yesterday, leaving behind a power vacuum in a nation that serves as a bulwark against militant Islam in Central Asia.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Teresa legacy under cloud ahead of her canonisation INTERNATIONAL

Teresa legacy under cloud ahead of her canonisation

As the Vatican prepares to declare Mother Teresa a saint today, in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata where she rose to fame, claims of medical negligence and financial mismanagement at her care homes threaten to cloud her legacy.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Australia pulse crops racing to record to fill Indian plates ECONOMY

Australia pulse crops racing to record to fill Indian plates

Australian farmers are set to churn out record harvests of pulses such as chickpeas and lentils after they rushed to take advantage of surging prices due to shortages in world No 1 producer and consumer India.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
US Soccer slaps Solo with six-month suspension CULTURE

US Soccer slaps Solo with six-month suspension

USA women’s goalkeeper Hope Solo has been slapped with a six-month ban from the national team for her comments in which she called the Swedish players “a bunch of cowards”, US Soccer announced Wednesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
WhatsApp to share user data with Facebook ECONOMY

WhatsApp to share user data with Facebook

Mobile messaging service WhatsApp on Thursday announced it would begin sharing subscriber data with parent Facebook, giving advertisers better access to information on WhatsApp's one billion-strong user base.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
North Korea test-fires sub-launched missile INTERNATIONAL

North Korea test-fires sub-launched missile

North Korea yesterday test-fired a submarine-launched missile 500 kilometres towards Japan, marking what weapons analysts called a clear step forward for its nuclear strike ambitions.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Turkey has shown no evidence of Gulen coup role: US ASIA

Turkey has shown no evidence of Gulen coup role: US

Turkey has submitted four extradition requests for the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen but offered no evidence tying him to last month's failed coup, a senior US official said Wednesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016