Category: WORLD NEWS

Pakistan has claimed that its troops destroyed an Indian Army post in Tatta Pani sector across the Line of Control (LoC) and killed five soldiers. Pakistan Army Spokesman Major General Asif Ghaffor in a tweet late last night also shared a video clip purportedly showing bombing of the Indian Army post and smoke billowing from the site after it was hit by fire. “Indian Army post on LoC targeting innocent citizens destroyed by Pak Army troops in Tatta Pani (Hot Spring) sector. Five Indian soldiers killed, many injured. Indian terrorism…

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South African President Jacob Zuma resigned from the position today, ending an impasse with his ruling African National Congress (ANC), which was planning to side with opposition parties in Parliament to remove him via a motion of no confidence. Zuma’s resignation comes three days after the ANC’s national leadership decided at a marathon meeting in the early hours of Monday to ask him to resign, which he had defiantly refused. “I resign as President of the Republic (of South Africa) with immediate effect,” Zuma said in a nationally-televised broadcast, ending…

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San Francisco, Feb 15 (DIN NEWS) Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is focused on cutting the company’s massive losses and “getting the love back” after a year of damaging revelations about the ride-hailing service’s sometimes heartless treatment of its employees, drivers, regulators and rivals. “We strive to be and should be a brand that is as beloved as Amazon and Google,” Khosrowshahi said late Wednesday during an appearance at a Goldman Sachs technology conference. “We have a long way to go, but we have to re-earn our consumer and driver trust. Just…

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Washington, Feb 15 (DIN NEWS) Two Indians have been sentenced to nearly two years of imprisonment by a federal court in Florida on charges of conspiring to smuggle counterfeit cigarettes into the United States. Besides Abhishek Shukla and Harish Shabhai Panchal, the two Indians, Jubilee Tobacco Industries Corp – an India-based company – was found guilty in the case. The company has been ordered to forfeit USD 300,000 to the US, the Department of Justice said today. The three have pleaded guilty to the charges. According to the guilty plea, they…

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Johannesburg, Feb 15 (DIN NEWS) South African President Jacob Zuma resigned from the position today, ending an impasse with his ruling African National Congress (ANC), which was planning to side with opposition parties in Parliament to remove him via a motion of no confidence. Zuma’s resignation comes three days after the ANC’s national leadership decided at a marathon meeting in the early hours of Monday to ask him to resign, which he had defiantly refused. “I resign as President of the Republic (of South Africa) with immediate effect,” Zuma said in…

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Washington, Feb 15 (DIN NEWS) A former student armed with an assault-style rifle went on a shooting spree at a high school in Florida, killing at least 17 people and injuring more than a dozen others, including an Indian-American student, in one of the deadliest mass shootings in the US. The 19 year-old suspect identified as Nikolas Cruz, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland who was expelled for disciplinary reasons, was arrested after the deadly rampage yesterday. The school has a large number of Indian-American students…

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Iraq, the second largest oil producer in the OPEC cartel, plans to sharply increase its output capacity to seven million barrels a day by 2022, its oil minister said today. Iraq now has an oil production capacity of five million barrels per day (bpd) but is pumping just over 4.7 million under an OPEC output cut agreement. “Our target is to reach seven million bpd by 2022,” Jabbar al-Luaybi said, while presenting oil and gas projects available for private foreign investors. Luaybi said Iraq sits on proven crude reserves of…

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France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visited Iraq today to discuss the war-torn country’s reconstruction with Iraqi officials after Baghdad declared victory against the Islamic State jihadist group. “I have come to tell you of France’s support and to accompany you. We will always be there. We were there to participate in the coalition. We will also be there in the reconstruction phase,” Le Drian said. France has been a key member of the US-led military coalition fighting IS after the jihadist group seized large swathes of Iraq and neighbouring…

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