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12 protesters die as troops open fire in Nigeria

LAGOS, Oct 21 (BBC): A number of people taking part in a protest against police brutality have reportedly been shot dead or wounded in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos.Witnesses said up to 12 people were killed and others wounded when soldiers opened fire. Amnesty International said it had "credible reports" of...

2,000 inmates break out of Nigeria jails

LAGOS, Oct 21 (AP): Nearly 2,000 inmates broke out of jail in Nigeria after crowds attacked two prisons amid protests against police brutality, the authorities said Tuesday.Anti-riot police were deployed across Africa's most populous nation and the police chief ordered forces to strengthen security around correctional facilities."The force will henceforth...

France shuts Paris mosque after beheading

PARIS, Oct 21 (Reuters): France ordered the temporary closure of a mosque outside Paris on Tuesday, part of a crackdown on Muslims who incite hatred after the decapitation of a teacher who showed his class caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad.The Grand Mosque of Pantin, a low-income suburb on the capital's...

Khashoggi's fiancée, HR group sue Saudi crown prince

NEW YORK, Oct 21 (Reuters): The fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and a human rights group that he founded filed a lawsuit in a US court on Tuesday with allegations that Saudi Arabia's crown prince ordered him killed.The civil lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages against Crown Prince Mohammed...

Trump maintains bank account in China

NEW YORK, Oct 21 (BBC): US President Donald Trump has a Chinese bank account and spent years pursuing business projects in the country, the New York Times has reported.The account is controlled by Trump International Hotels Management and paid local taxes between 2013 and 2015.It was set up "to explore...

Washington to host talks on Nagorno-Karabakh

NEW YORK, Oct 21 (Reuters): Armenia and Azerbaijan said on Tuesday their foreign ministers would meet US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington on Friday in efforts to end the heaviest fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh since the 1990s.The State Department did not immediately comment. But the planned meetings suggest that,...

Russia, US ready for deal to extend N pact

MOSCOW, Oct 21 (AP): Russia said Tuesday it's ready to accept a US proposal to freeze the number of nuclear warheads and extend the two nations' last arms control pact for one year and Washington responded that it's prepared to make a quick deal.US State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus welcomed...

15 perish in stampede as Afghans jostle for visas

KABUL, Oct 21 (Reuters): At least 15 people were killed in stampede among thousands of Afghans gathered outside Pakistan's consulate on Tuesday as jostling broke out between people applying for visas, officials in the eastern city of Jalalabad said.An estimated 3,000 Afghans had congregated on the open ground outside the...

Explosion claims 5 lives in Karachi

ISLAMABAD, Oct 21 (Xinhua): At least five people were killed and 20 others injured in an explosion inside a multi-storey building in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Wednesday morning, rescue workers said.The injured including women have been shifted to different hospitals and five to seven out of them...

India's federal agency steps in to probe fake TV ratings scam

NEW DELHI, Oct 21 (UNB): India's Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday stepped in to probe the television rating points or TRP scam, a case that has reignited the debate on unfair means being adopted by a few media houses in this country for gaining advertisement revenues."The federal agency has...