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  Train accident kills 19 in Karachi

  Associated Press | Updated at 12:50pm on November 03, 2016

  A passenger train crashed into the back end of another in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Thursday, killing at least 19 people and...

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  Asian MPs urge probe of reported abuses

  Reuters . Sittwe | Updated at 12:58am on November 03, 2016

  Parliamentarians from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) urged Myanmar on Wednesday to probe reports of human rights abuses in Rakhine state as top...

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  Kashmir schools shut down after deadly shelling

  Agence France-Presse . Srinagar | Updated at 12:47am on November 03, 2016

  Hundreds of schools were ordered to close indefinitely in Kashmir Wednesday after shelling by Indian and Pakistani troops in the disputed region killed 14 civilians...

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  Pakistan denies bail to National Geographic's 'Afghan Girl'

  Associated Press | Updated at 08:31pm on November 02, 2016

  A Pakistani prosecutor says a court has dismissed a bail plea from National Geographic's famed green-eyed 'Afghan Girl,' arrested a week ago over allegedly forged...

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  Rahul Gandhi detained, released over ex-soldier suicide

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 06:51pm on November 02, 2016

  Delhi police on Wednesday detained Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi while trying to meet the family of a former army soldier Ram Kishan Grewal who allegedly...

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  Tremors haunt central Italian region

  Associated Press . Norcia | Updated at 12:32am on November 02, 2016

  Earthquake aftershocks gave central Italy no respite on Tuesday, haunting a region where thousands of people were left homeless and frightened by a massive weekend...

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  Imran Khan backs off from threat to shut down capital

  Reuters . Islamabad | Updated at 12:29am on November 02, 2016

  Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan backed down from a threat to paralyse the capital on Wednesday, a move likely to ease tension that has spilled...

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  10 dead in ship-breaking yard blast in Pakistan

  Reuters | Updated at 07:05pm on November 01, 2016

  At least 10 Pakistani workers were killed and more than 50 injured on Tuesday by huge blast in an oil tanker at a ship-breaking yard,...

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  19 killed in latest India-Pakistan border firing

  Reuters | Updated at 05:39pm on November 01, 2016

  India and Pakistan on Tuesday tallied at least 19 deaths in recent firing across their disputed border in Kashmir, where the nuclear-armed neighbours are engaging...

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  Indian police shoot dead eight Islamists after prison escape

  Reuters | Updated at 09:10pm on October 31, 2016

  Indian police shot dead eight Islamist prisoners who had escaped from jail hours earlier on Monday by using knotted bedsheets to scale the walls, officials...