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At least five people were shot dead by gunmen during evening prayers at a mosque in Quebec City in Canada’s French-speaking province of Quebec on Sunday, said Mohamed Yangui, the president of mosque. “This is deplorable,” Yangui told dpa on the phone. “I just got a call from the morgue …

You heard it time and time again during the presidential election season: If Donald Trump wins, people will move out of the country. Now, it looks like a whole state might up and create a new country. On Thursday, California’s secretary of state gave the go-ahead to Yes California Independence …

AT Monitoring Desk-WASHINGTON: The commander of the US and NATO troops in Afghanistan said Tuesday that Afghan forces were tested in 2016 and they prevailed. “It was an important year for us. We began the year with a peace process. The Taliban and others admitted to joining the quadrilateral peace …

For Jamshed (name changed) and his family members, Waziristan is their home that ceased to be their safe haven. After developing severe blisters on their skin, Jamshed, along with his family members, fled to Bannu, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as IDPs (Internally Displaced People). It was only when the …

AT-KABUL: Asian Development Bank (ADB) operations for Asia and the Pacific reached an all-time high of $31.5 billion in 2016, a 17% increase from $26.9 billion in 2015, ADB said in a preliminary figures released on Sunday. Approval of ADB loans, grants, technical assistance, and co financing have been growing …

AT-KABUL: The number of terrorist attacks is on the rise in Afghanistan, and security situation in Afghanistan remained a challenging, Russian officials said. “We urge the warring parties in Afghanistan, primarily the leaders of the Taliban movement, to renounce violence and to take urgent action to launch intra-Afghan dialogue,” Russian …

Shamim Shahid-PESHAWAR: A large number of youngsters from North Waziristan have demanded of the government to early arrange payment of monthly compensation to Temporary Displaced People (TDP’s) and take notice of increasing corruption and corrupt practices in Federally Administrative Tribal Areas (FATA) Disaster Management Authority (FDMA). On the call of …

AT-PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa civil society, students and political parties workers arranged demonstration to condemn the disappearance of teacher, writer, human right activist Salman Haider and three other bloggers across Pakistan. The demonstrations had placards and banners to that had slogans to recover the writers and human right activists. While addressing …

Five Emiratis were killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan on Tuesday. The men were carrying out humanitarian, educational and development work in Afghanistan. The UAE ambassador to Afghanistan, Juma Al Kaabi, was also injured in the explosion, in Kandahar, as previously reported. The dead were named on Wednesday as …

US President-elect Donald Trump said on Twitter that “having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing” KUWAIT CITY: Improved relations between Russia and the United States will be good for peace and stability in Afghanistan, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said. He added that …