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| Four Pakistani soldiers dead, eight missing after checkpoint attack |
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| By Saud Mehsud and Hafiz Wazir DERA ISMAIL KHAN/WANA Pakistan (Reuters) - Four Pakistani soldiers were killed and at least eight were missing after insurgents using rockets and grenades stormed a checkpoint overnight in the remote border region of North Waziristan, security sources said on Sunday. The Pakistani military launched an operation to push the Taliban out of North Waziristan, their key stronghold, in June. Bases there were used by a variety of insurgent groups to stage deadly attacks in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. ... |
| Company denies rat poison in pills linked to Chhattisgarh sterilisation deaths |
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 By Aditi Shah RAIPUR India (Reuters) - The company at the centre of a probe into why more than a dozen women died after being sterilised in Chhattisgarh has denied that the antibiotic tablets it manufactured were contaminated with a chemical compound commonly found in rat poison. Preliminary tests of ciprocin tablets made by Mahawar Pharmaceuticals, a small firm based in the state, were found to contain zinc phosphide, two senior officials in the state said on Saturday. Samples have been sent to Kolkata and Delhi to verify that they were contaminated. ...
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| Cosby declines to answer questions about sex assault accusations |
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 By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - Comedian Bill Cosby, in an interview that aired on Saturday, declined to answer questions by a National Public Radio journalist about accusations of sexual assault that resurfaced in recent weeks. Cosby, 77, responded by shaking his head to signal "No" at least twice when NPR's Scott Simon asked him to respond to the sexual assault accusations, including those made by former aspiring actress Barbara Bowman in an op-ed in the Washington Post earlier in the week. ...
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| Scion of Pakistan's dynasty struggles to shake off father's legacy |
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 By Mehreen Zahra-Malik NAUDERO Pakistan (Reuters) - He was a 19-year-old Oxford undergraduate when his family named him chairman of Pakistan's oldest dynastic party. In the years that followed, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, now 26, has been groomed to take over the dynasty and bring his family's political party back to power. The young Bhutto officially launched his political career last month, telling hundreds of thousands of supporters at a rally in the city of Karachi he would fight for the revival of the Pakistan People's Party. ...
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| UK looking into reports IS beheading suspect wounded |
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| LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Saturday it was investigating reports that a man believed to be a British national suspected of carrying out beheadings in videos released by Islamic State (IS) had been wounded in a U.S.-led air strike last week. The man, dubbed "Jihadi John" by the British media, was believed to have been injured in an air attack on a summit of IS leaders in an Iraqi town close to the Syrian border last Saturday, Britain's Mail on Sunday newspaper reported. The group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was also said to have been wounded in the attack, the paper added. ... |
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