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  • Libyan PM survives assassination

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    Libya’s internationally-recognised Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni has survived a shooting attack during a demonstration against the government, according to a government source. “A convoy of the prime minister was shot at as he was leaving Tobruk air base, the parliament’s temporary headquarter,” a senior government official told Xinhua news agency. “A bodyguard was injured,” the…

  • British researchers propose new way to measure crowd count

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    Researchers at Warwick University have come up with a new method to estimate the size of a large crowd based on geographical data from mobile phones and the social-networking app Twitter. The researchers studied geo-tagged tweets and mobile phone use over a two-month period in Milan, Italy. In two locations with known visitor numbers —…

  • Scientists discover ‘key’ protein to treat Ebola

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    Scientists have found a protein that acts like a “key” allowing the Ebola virus to infect cells, according to an article published in the journal mBio. A study by a group of scientists from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York and the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious…

  • US storm and flood toll touches 16

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     The toll has risen to 16 after three days of intense storms and floods in the US states of Texas and Oklahoma, Efe news agency reported. Authorities expect the figure to rise, as dozen other people are listed as missing. Authorities reported 10 people dead in Texas, four of them after flooding in Houston on…

  • Israel strikes Gaza

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    Israeli warplanes  launched missile strikes on military training facilities in the Gaza Strip in response to earlier firing of four rockets into Israel, security officials said. Witnesses said that F16 fighter jets had intensively hovered over the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave, while several explosions were heard in southern and central Gaza Strip. Security officials confirmed that…

  • Six Fifa officials arrested on corruption charges

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    Six Fifa officials, including its vice-president Jeffrey Webb, have been arrested on suspicion of corruption in dawn raids at a Zurich hotel ahead the presidential election. The members of the world governing body were held by Swiss police at the US Department of Justice’s request reports BBC. They are suspected of having received bribes totalling…

  • Obama urges NATO to help stabilise Afghanistan

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    US President Barack Obama urged all NATO member countries to play a role in helping stabilise Afghanistan. Emerging from a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House, Obama on Tuesday said not only the US, but also all NATO members should offer training and other support to Afghan forces following the…

  • Prof. Sen Defends Marxism

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    Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen delivered a passionate defence of the importance of free thought, in Hay’s annual lecture in honour of the festival’s former president Eric Hobsbawm. Challenged by a questioner who asked him how he could respect a philosophy whose practitioners had created the Gulag and the Cultural Revolution, Sen said ideas need…

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  • US media see challenges for Modi

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    Reflecting on the completion of one year of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, the US media on Monday underlined various challenges facing his government, saying he “must face the reality that much of his agenda is still only potential”. “After soaring through India’s political stratosphere on the economic promise ‘achche din aa gaye’ or ‘better…

  • Bibi proposes borders with Palestinians

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    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has voiced his willingness to discuss the borders of Jewish settlement blocs in future peace talks with the Palestinians, an Israeli newspaper reported on Tuesday. Haaretz reported that Netanyahu made the proposal during a meeting with European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini who visited the region last week.…

  • War on terror is war of Muslims: Jordan

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    Jordan declared that all Muslims should be engaged in the war against terrorist organisations, which seek to defame the Islamic faith. Islam has nothing to do with terrorism and the violent practices conducted by terrorist groups which seek to tarnish the image of this faith. Therefore, it is the duty of Muslims to fight terrorism,…

  • Sushma chairs meet on overseas Indians

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    Fourth Meeting of the Board of Trustees of India Development Foundation of Overseas Indians (IDF-OI) was held in Delhi The Fourth Meeting of the Board of Trustees of India Development Foundation of Overseas Indians (IDF-OI) was held in New Delhi. The meeting was chaired by Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs, Smt. Sushma Swaraj.  IDF-OI is a…

  • Trevor Bayliss is England’s Head Coach

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     The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has confirmed the appointment of Trevor Bayliss as England’s new Head Coach. Bayliss, who is currently Coach of New South Wales, is due to join the ECB next month, in time to take charge of the team for the start of the Investec Ashes Test series in July.…

  • Trial of US journalist opens in Iran

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    A Washington Post correspondent facing charges, including spying, appeared in an Iranian court on Tuesday, media reports said. Jason Rezaian appeared before Branch 15 of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Court, IRNA news agency reported. The US journalist was accompanied by his wife Yeganeh Salehi and a female press photographer. The charges levelled against Rezaian, a 39-year-old…

  • Palestinians oppose Bibi’s settlements remarks

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    Palestinians opposed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent remarks on the fate of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, a senior official said. Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, told Xinhua news agency over telephone that Netanyahu’s remarks on the settlement issue “are totally rejected and not accepted”. “Netanyahu’s calls on the Palestinians to accept…

  • Teenage obesity double bowel cancer risk

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    Being obese or very overweight during teenage may double the risk of developing bowel cancer by the time one is middle-aged, says a new research. Elizabeth Kantor from Harvard School of Public Health in the US with her colleagues tracked the health of 240,000 Swedish men, who had been conscripted into the military between the…

  • New hope for people with diabetic blindness

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    US researchers said they have found a new way to restore the eyesight in patients who have a blinding eye disease caused by diabetes. The key is to block a second blood vessel growth protein, along with one that is already well-known, when it comes to treating and preventing diabetic retinopathy, the most common diabetic…

  • Rover begins new journey on Mars

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    Unable to reach a comparable geological contact farther south on Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity rover has now approached an alternative site for investigating a geological boundary. Such geological contacts can reveal clues about how environmental conditions that produced one type of rock were related to conditions that produced the other. Two weeks ago, Curiosity was…

  • Modi promises to fulfill promises

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    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote a letter to the nation to mark his one year in office. The Indian leader said his government had rejuvenated a languishing economy, brought a corruption-free rule and restored trust. Here is the full letter:  My dear fellow citizens! Service, in our Indian ethos is the ultimate duty – Seva Parmo…

  • Air France jet escorted by US fighters

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    An Air France passenger jet coming from Paris was escorted by two US F-15 fighter jets to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport after an anonymous telephone threat, authorities said. Local media reported  that the unidentified caller said that the Air France plane had a chemical weapon on board. The FBI said in a…

  • UK ,Russia to resume talks over Syrian conflict

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    British and Russian officials are to resume efforts to find a solution to the crisis in Syria, David Cameron and Vladimir Putin have agreed. The resumption of talks between security advisers was discussed by the leaders in a telephone conversation, Downing Street said. President Putin had phoned Mr Cameron to congratulate him on winning the…

  • Cameron tells EC president Britons ‘unhappy with status quo’

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    David Cameron has made clear to the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that “British people are not happy with the status quo” in Europe. The prime minister hosted Mr Juncker at Chequers ahead of a week of efforts to renegotiate Britain’s EU membership. The EC president “reiterated that he wanted to find a fair deal for…

  • Mosque Killings in S. Arabia condemned

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    The KAICIID Board of Directors, consisting of representatives of five religions – Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism – unanimously condemn the deliberate attack on peaceful worshippers at a mosque in Qatif province in Saudi Arabia on 22 May 2015.  The attack that killed and wounded scores of worshippers was committed deliberately to harm the…

  • Ehud Olmert gets additional eight months in prison

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    Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to an additional eight months in prison following his recent conviction in a Jerusalem court for corruption. The new prison term will be added to another one of six years, which Olmert received in another graft case, and is set to start within 45 days, Xinhua reported.…

  • Muslim police chief warns of radicalisation of Youth

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    Islamist propaganda is so addictive it is influencing children as young as five and should be countered with intensified monitoring to detect the earliest signs of anti-western sentiment, Britain’s most senior Muslim police chief has warned. Scotland Yard commander Mak Chishty said children aged five had voiced opposition to marking Christmas, branding it as “haram” –…

  • ‘Sikh Samaritan’ gets new furniture

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    The Sikh man who captured the hearts across the globe when he took off his sacred turban to cradle a boy’s head who had been hit by a car has been rewarded for his kind act after a generous business owner donated new furniture for his sparse home. Harman Singh, 22, didn’t think twice about…

  • Sajid Javid shuts Lord Dannatt on Iraq

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    British troops will not get back into Iraq despite the country teetering on the verge of collapse to ISIS, a top Cabinet minister revealed this morning. Business Secretary Sajid Javid admitted more troops were needed on the ground – but insisted: ‘This is not a war on the ground for British troops.’ It comes after ISIS…

  • No 10 bars EU citizens to vote on referendum

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    Citizens of Commonwealth and Ireland besides the British voters will decide on UK’s In and Out referendum, No 10 said in a statement Prime Minister David Cameron will meet European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at Chequers today to discuss issues related to UK-EU relations. Legislation for the voting eligibility of the referendum – which the…

  • ISIS kills 400 Syrians in Palmyra

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    Islamic State (IS) militants have killed about 400 people since they stormed the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria, media reported. Most of those killed in the millennia-old oasis city were women and children, Xinhua news agency reported citing the official Syrian TV. Last Wednesday, the IS militants took full control of the ancient…

  • French movie Dheepan wins Palme d`Or

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    French movie Dheepan, directed by Jacques Audiard, won the Palme d`Or for the Best Film at the 68th Festival de Cannes on Sunday, while the Best Director Award was given to Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Dheepan is about the story of a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl pose as a family in order…

  • Malaysia confirms mass graves of migrants

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    Malaysia has confirmed the discovery of graves holding the bodies of migrants and at least 17 hidden detention camps formerly used by human-trafficking groups. Interior Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the camps were found near the northern town of Padang Baesar, on the border with Thailand, the Malaysian Star reported on Sunday. “Each grave has…

  • UN chief praises Ireland referendum

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    Visiting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has praised the result of Ireland’s marriage equality referendum, describing it as “truly historic moment”. “This is a truly historic moment: Ireland has become the first country in the world to approve marriage equality in a nationwide referendum,” Ban said on Sunday after he accepted the Tipperary International Peace…

  • Hindu and Sikh votes helped Cameron sweep power

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    The Conservative strategy to target Hindu and Sikh voters may have helped David Cameron to sweep into power. According to new research, over one million ethnic minority votes were cast for the Tories – the highest share the party has ever enjoyed from an electoral group it has failed to connect with in the past reports…

  • Most EU citizens not eligible for referendum vote

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    Most citizens of  EU countries living in the UK will not get a vote in the referendum on Europe, No 10 has said. Those eligible – the franchise – will be the same as those who can vote in a general election, rather than local or European Parliament elections reports BBC. This means Irish, Maltese and…

  • Morocco unhappy over deportation of terror convict

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    Morocco’s interior Minister has expressed to his British counterpart Rabat’s discontent over Britain’s decision to deport a Moroccan terror convict, the ministry. The individual, deported from Britain where he had served prison for terrorism-related charges, set fire to his family’s house in Rabat, and refused to surrender to police, threatening them with a sharp-edged weapon,…

  • John Nash dies in car crash

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    Mathematician John Nash, who won the Nobel Prize in 1994 and was the inspiration for the film “A Beautiful Mind”, died on the weekend along with his wife in a New Jersey taxi accident, media reported. He was 86. According to reports, the driver of the cab in which Nash and his 82-year-old wife Alicia…

  • India’s Rafale deal draws flak

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    Congress national spokesperson Tom Vadakkan said defence deals during the UPA rule were delayed due to strict adherence to procedure and principles of transparency Stopping short of calling the NDA government’s Rafale deal a scam, the Congress on Saturday said the multi-billion dollar deal to purchase fighter jets from France lacked transparency and non-adherence to…

  • Abbott dismisses same-sex marriage referendum

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    Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has dismissed the idea of a referendum on same-sex marriage in the country after Ireland voted in favour of amending the country’s constitution on the issue. “Questions of marriage are the preserve of the Commonwealth Parliament,” reported ABC on Sunday citing the prime minister. “Referendums are held in this country…

  • NRI Surgeon re-attach British man’s head to spine

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    A team of surgeons has helped a British man survive after his head snapped off from his spine in a car crash. They re-attached his skull to his spine in a rare surgery, a media report said. Neurosurgeon Anant Kamat led the critical surgery, re-attaching Tony Cowan’s skull to his spine with a metal plate…

  • US Senate blocks NSA bill

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    The US Senate has rejected a bill that would curb the country’s National Security Agency (NSA)’s bulk collection of telephone data, leaving it uncertain the fate of the once-secret program ahead of its expiration at the end of the month. The bill, USA Freedom Act, which would have ended the NSA’s bulk collection but preserved…

  • A small ad sparks a big debate

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    When Mumbai-based Harish Iyer’s mother Padma placed a matrimonial advertisement in a Mumbai tabloid for her gay son, she never thought it would generate a debate across and outside the country…reports Preetha Nair for Asian Lite, Britain’s best newspaper for British Asians  When Mumbai-based Harish Iyer’s mother Padma placed a matrimonial advertisement in a Mumbai tabloid for…

  • NEPAL QUAKE: Horror is still alive

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    Pranay Bordoloi, a senior journalist and a veteran mountaineer, was a part of Asom Everest Expedition, shares his experience at Everest Base Camp -A month after quake, horror is still alive It had been snowing heavily from the wee hours. It seemed like it would never end. The whole Everest Base Camp was clad in white. The…

  • Portrait of an engineer as a novelist

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     Vikas Datta profiles Nevil Shute Norway, an aeronautical engineer would be the last person expected to be a successful and long-lasting novelist Immersed in aerodynamics, material science, structural analysis and the like, an aeronautical engineer would be the last person expected to be a successful and long-lasting novelist. But there was one who started writing…

  • Indus Valley script numerical

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    Contrary to the age-old assumption that the Indus script is a language, a veteran science historian has claimed that it is numerical, as evident from numbers and symbols in the seals and artifacts of the Indus Valley Civilisation (3000-1900 BC)…reports Fakir Balaji for Asian Lite, Britain’s best newspaper for British Asians  Contrary to the age-old assumption that…

  • Alexandra Palace to host UN Intl. Yoga Day

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    London’s prestigious Alexandra Palace will host International Day of Yoga on 21st June…reports Ragasudha Vinjamuri for Asian Lite, Britain’s best newspaper for British Asians 21st June 2015 has been declared as International Day of Yoga by the United Nations, thanks to Prime Minister Narendra Modi who initiated and took it up with the UN. The resolution…

  • Its a landslide for gay’s in Ireland

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    With all votes from the country’s 43 constituencies counted, Ireland has approved same-sex marriage with 1.2 million people voting in its favor. At Dublin Castle, Returning Officer Riona Ni Fhlanghaile declared that a total of 1,201,607 people (62.1 percent) voted in favor with 734,300 (37.9 percent) against, giving a majority of 467,307. The total valid…

  • Iraqi forces recapture ISIS held town

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    Iraqi security forces and allied militias retook control of a small town east of Ramadi, capital of Anbar province, after heavy clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants, a provincial security source said. The troops backed by brigades of Shia and Sunni militias, known as Hashd Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation), managed to free the town of Huseibah…

  • ISIS takes responsibility for Saudi Shia mosque attack

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    Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for an apparent suicide bomb attack carried out on Friday at a Shia mosque in the town of Al Qudayh in the eastern Saudi Arabian, Shia-majority province of Al Qatif, in which at least 21 people were killed while 102 others were wounded, according to the Saudi health ministry. The…

  • US ‘much closer’ to opening embassy in Havana

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    The US and Cuba ended  their fourth round of negotiations to restore diplomatic relations, with the message that the opening of embassies is now “much closer” and that the last obstacles will be overcome in the coming weeks, though not necessarily with another high-profile gathering. The meeting that began  in Washington could be the last…