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Police in collaboration with the intelligence agencies launched a search operation in Rachna Town Khan Colony in Sheikhupura district.

Italian Coast Guard with multi-nation naval mission rescued 2900 refugees off the Libyan coast. In a massive humanitarian crisis, around 60, 000 people have been rescued in such actions this year.

China will have majority stake in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank with a stake of 30.34%; followed by India. the AIIB will rival other institutions like WB, ADB.

US Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush will pastors in Charleston next week. Bush was scheduled to campaign in the state but postponed events due the shooting.

At least 10 people were killed in the flash floods - caused due to heavy rains - in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province .

Rape, domestic violence, dowry-related deaths, honour killings and discrimination against women remained serious societal problems as per the report.

CII expressed concern over the 'disruption' that the new immigration regime would cause in the operations of Indian companies in the UK.

With the announcement of $1 billion loan and grant for Nepal's reconstruction, India is the largest donor pledging the support for the post-quake recovery.

The French Parliament has adopted a controversial surveillance law aimed at broadening eavesdropping of terrorism suspects, despite protests from privacy advocates.

In an alleged racially-motivated attack, an Indian-origin Sikh dentist in the UK nearly had his hand severed in a brutal machete attack while he was out shopping at a supermarket in Wales.

10 South Korean women forced into sexual slavery by Japanese forces during the second world war will file a $20 million suit in a US court.

In the lawsuit filed with the Supreme Court of the State of New York against Trinity, Sahara and UBS, JTS has now alleged that Trinity cut it off from the deal for direct negotiations with Sahara.

Britain urged Iran to show more flexibility in talks on its contested nuclear programme as an end-June deadline looms after years of tortuous negotiations with the West.

A Vietnamese official says eight Indonesians apprehended last week have confessed to hijacking a Malaysian oil tanker.

EU Chief Executive's office said that Greece had agreed to 11th-hour concessions although no details were divulged. A default will lead to a Greek exit from the euro zone.

One of the pan-Arab television network Al Jazeera's best known journalists, Ahmed Mansour, was remanded in custody by a German judge after being detained at Egypt's request, the public prosecutor's office said on Sunday.