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Visa decision put on hold: Colombo
COLOMBO: Less than a day after it announced suspension of visa on arrival facility extended to citizens to 79 countries including India with effect from September 30, Sri Lanka on Saturday said the decision had been kept on hold. A ...

Global effort to rescue miners
As 33 miners enter their third week trapped 688 metres underground, the logistics of keeping them alive has been reduced to a single dimension: 12cm. “That's the size of the tube by which we can supply them,” said Chilean ...

Hostage crisis
ISLAMABAD: Security personnel stormed an Army intelligence office in Peshawar on Saturday to free two persons taken hostage by terrorists who had managed to escape from custody in the early hours. The hostage situation — which ...

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China's presence in Gilgit-Baltistan: NYT

Al-Qaeda-linked suspects planned to bomb Canadian Parliament

Ravindra Kelekar cremated

Fighting in Mogadishu

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