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The MI-8 helicopter fell apart and caught fire on Saturday. (Representational)

Moscow: 

Moscow on Saturday said 18 people were killed when a helicopter crashed on its way to an oil station in northern Siberia in the early hours of the morning. 

The Russian Transport Ministry said the Mi-8 helicopter carrying three crew members and 15 passengers

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Trade differences between India and the US have been rising since Donald Trump took office.

India said on Saturday that delayed higher tariffs against some goods imported from the United States will go into force on September 18.

New Delhi, incensed by Washington's refusal to exempt it from new tariffs, decided in June to raise import tax from

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Demonstration on the first day of the Danish face veil ban in Denmark August 1, 2018 (Reuters)

Stockholm, Sweden: 

A 28-year-old woman wearing a niqab on Friday became the first person in Denmark to be fined for violating a new controversial law banning full-face Islamic veils in public places, media reported.

Police were called to a shopping centre

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China's finance ministry unveiled new sets of additional tariffs on 5,207 goods imported from the US

Beijing/Singapore: 

China proposed retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S. goods ranging from liquefied natural gas (LNG) to some aircraft on Friday, as a senior Chinese diplomat cast doubt on prospects of talks with Washington to solve

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The country that Imran Khan inherits as prime minister is run on scare tactics, journo opines.

Islamabad: 

As cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan is all set to take over as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, a fear creeps across the country.

Islamabad-based journalist, Mehreen Zahra-Malik, in an op-ed in The Washington Post, writes, "..it is expected

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North Korea "has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs," said the report sent to the council.

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North Korea has resorted to a "massive increase" of illegal ship-to-ship transfers of oil products at sea to evade UN sanctions and enlisted a Syrian arms broker to sell weapons to Yemen and Libya, a UN report said

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