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Google is crafting a search engine meeting Chinese censorship rules, said sources (AFP)

Beijing: 

Google is crafting a search engine that would meet China's draconian censorship rules, a company employee told AFP on Thursday, in a move decried by human rights activists.

Google withdrew its search engine from China eight years ago due to censorship

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US Congress passed a bill slashing its defence aid to Pakistan massively. (File Photo of Pak army chief)

Washington: 

Amidst tensions in bilateral ties, the US Congress has passed a defence spending bill capping its security-related aid to Pakistan at $150 million, significantly below the historic level of more than $1 billion per year.

The National

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Imran Khan had said he would take oath as Pakistan's prime minister on August 11.

Karachi: 

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan on Wednesday declared its support for Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to form the Central government.

The declaration was made by the MQM-P convener, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui in an appearance on a Geo TV show,

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Caucher Birkar won the Fields Medal, often called the 'Nobel Prize of mathematics' (AFP)

Rio De Janeiro: 

A winner of the Fields Medal, often called the 'Nobel Prize of mathematics,' had his prize stolen shortly after receiving it during a ceremony in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday.

Caucher Birkar, a Kurdish refugee from Iran teaching at Cambridge

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The Roman Catholic Church is dealing with accusations of sexual abuse in other parts of the US.

A Roman Catholic bishop in Pennsylvania released the names on Wednesday of 71 clergy members and seminarians accused of sexually abusing children since the 1940s, acting in advance of a release of grand jury findings on clergy abuse in the state.

Those on

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Aftab Pureval is seeking to unseat an 11-term incumbent Republican Congressman Steve Chabot

Washington: 

Barack Obama has endorsed Aftab Pureval, an American of Indian-Tibetan descent, for the Congressional elections in November as the former US President released his first endorsement list of over 80 Democratic candidates.

Mr Pureval, 35, who is

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