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Priyanka Chopra to present at Golden Globes 2017

There’s no stopping this Bolly star Priyanka presented the awards at the Emmy’s and Oscar’s last year and it looks like 2017 will be her year too. The 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards just released a list of presenters at the award show and (not surprisingly) PeeCee is on it! She will be presenting alongside Hollywood’s notable personalities like Nicole ...

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Trump hails Putin for declining to retaliate against US move to expel diplomats

President-elect Donald Trump has hailed the Russian President Vladimir Putin for declining retaliation against the latest moves by the Obama administration to expel diplomats. The Russian President declined to respond to Obama administration’s move after the country’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov suggested that several US diplomats should be expelled from Russia. However, Putin said chose not to act and invited ...

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Sweden not to deport 5 Afghan teens after convicting them of gang rape

A Swedish court has ruled out deportation of five Afghan teens after convicting them of gang rape of a fellow minor refugee, it has been reported. The prosecutors have reportedly asked for the deportation of the five teens charged with the rape of their fellow refugee hailing from Afghanistan. The district court in Uppsala, north of Stockholm awarded a one year ...

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China blocks India’s bid at UN to blacklist Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar

China has blocked India’s request to add the head of the Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) to a UN Security Council blacklist of groups linked to al Qaeda, India said on Friday. India has accused JeM and its top leader, Maulana Masood Azhar, of masterminding several attacks, including a deadly assault on an Indian air base in January. Pakistani security ...

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Putin refuses to expel US diplomats, looks to Trump

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he would not expel any Americans in response to Washington turfing out dozens of Russian diplomats over alleged election interference. The Kremlin strongman’s shock decision came after Russia’s foreign ministry asked him to send home 35 US diplomats in a tit-for-tat retaliation for the expulsion of the same number of its staff by ...

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Permanent status for army courts will be govt’s failure on NAP: Maulana Fazlur Rehman

Maulana Fazlur Rehman addressing a press conference in Peshawar on Thursday. — White Star PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Thursday said if military courts were given a permanent status, it would be tantamount to confessing that the government had failed to achieve the targets of the National Action Plan. The JUI-F chief told reporters at the party’s ...

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The Afghanistan jam

Every successive year, for over a decade now, New Delhi is rated in surveys as the most popular country in Afghanistan. This year, it bagged 64 per cent of the vote. Afghan Ambassador to India, Shaida Abdali, calls India a national partner. At this month’s Heart of Asia conference at Amritsar, in the presence of the Pakistan  delegation led by ...

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Three Afghan migrants die in traffic accident fleeing police in Serbia

Three Afghan migrants died and another 10, including six children, were injured in a traffic accident in southern Serbia on December 29, the Interior Ministry has said. The driver, a suspected smuggler, fled the scene after his passenger car crammed with 14 people swerved off the road and hit a safety barrier while fleeing from police. Two migrants were killed ...

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Sherpao for inclusion of Afghanistan in Moscow consultation process

KABUL: Leader of the Qaumi Watan Party (QWP), a political party of neo-nationalists based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, stressed on participation of Afghanistan in Moscow trilateral consultation process on Afghan conflict and peace process. In a statement, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao said that the Moscow trilateral consultation process would not be productive without participation of Afghanistan. Backing reaction of the ...

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Young Afghan refugees turn to prostitution facing an uncertain fate in Greece

Distressing reports have emerged regarding the uncertain fate of the Afghan migrants in Greece amid uncertain fate forcing the young Afghan refugees to turn to prostitution due to an uncertain fate as hundreds are stranded in eastern European countries. According to the reports, minor Afghan migrants find themselves caught up in illegal trades, including drugs, human trafficking and most frequently, ...

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