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A suspect who forged motorcycle chassis numbers and engine numbers has been arrested by the CID at Kurana in Negombo on Thursday. The suspect was arrested after the Police found that the chassis number and engine number of a motorcycle…
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A special operation conducted by the Navy in seas off Thondamanaru on Thursday led to the seizure of about 168Kg and 750g of Kerala cannabis. The street value of the seized stock of Kerala cannabis is believed to be over Rs.50 million.…
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FLASH BACK: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcoming Crown Prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the Hyderabad House in New…
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AFGHANISTAN: Flag-waving protesters took to the streets of more Afghan cities on August 19 as popular opposition to the Taliban spread, and a witness said several people were killed when the militants fired on a crowd in Asadabad in…
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AFGHANISTAN: China can play a big role in the “rebuilding, rehabilitation, reconstruction of Afghanistan”, Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen told Chinese national broadcaster CGTN late on Thursday in an interview. Shaheen’s…
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UK: The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan will inspire terrorists and trigger an “explosion” of extremism and security challenges for the world, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warned on Thursday. Speaking to the BBC, the Cabinet…
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AFGHANISTAN: U.S. forces in Afghanistan are now racing to evacuate as many people from that country as possible before the end of the month, officials said Thursday, but it remains unclear how many will make it to safety before troops…
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This 2001 file photo shows Shannon Spann, wife of CIA officer Johnny Michael “Mike” Spann, follows her husband’s casket to the grave site, holding her 6-month old son Jake, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington. In November of…
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AFGHANISTAN: As the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital of Kabul on Sunday, a spokesperson for the group uploaded five videos to his official YouTube page. The videos, each between two and three minutes long, showed Taliban…
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AFGHANISTAN: Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have shot and killed a relative of a Deutsche Welle journalist while hunting for him, the German public broadcaster said. The terrorists were conducting a house-to-house search for the…
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