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US police arrest four for plotting to bomb Muslims

NEW YORK, Jan 23 (Al Jazeera): Three men and a high-school student have been arrested for allegedly planning to bomb a Muslim community in upstate New York, authorities said on Tuesday.The Rochester-area residents are accused of plotting to attack the small Muslim enclave of Islamberg, a rural settlement about 150...

Rahul names Priyanka to senior party post

NEW DELHI, Jan 23 (Reuters): Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi appointed his charismatic sister to a senior party position on Wednesday that officials say will energize the campaign to oust Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national election expected in a few months.Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, 47, has campaigned for the...

Pak police face music for killing innocent people

ISLAMABAD, Jan 23 (BBC): Hours after he lost his parents and a sibling in a bloody shooting on Saturday, a nine-year-old Pakistani boy exposed a blatant cover-up by police.Highly-trained counter terror forces had claimed to have killed four "terrorists" linked to the Islamic State group in an "intelligence-based operation" south-west...

Russians’ trust in Putin falls to all-time low

MOSCOW, Jan 23 (Al Jazeera): Russia's trust in its President Vladimir Putin has fallen to its lowest level since 2006, falling more than 33 per cent, according to a recent poll conducted by the Russian-state Public Opinion Research Center.Confidence in Putin's government fell 33.4 per cent last week amid sluggish...

Two drowned Saudi sisters in US killed themselves

NEW YORK, Jan 23 (AFP): Two Saudi sisters whose bodies were found taped together on the banks of a New York river committed suicide, the city's medical examiner said on Tuesday.Rotana Farea, 22, and her sister Tala, 16, were found beside the Hudson River in late October with no visible...

Australia seeks info about dual citizen reported missing in China

SYDNEY, Jan 23 (AP): The Australian government said on Wednesday it is seeking information about a Chinese-Australian writer who has been reported missing in China in what a friend suspects is part of a Chinese backlash against Canada's arrest of a top Chinese telecommunications executive.Novelist and influential online commentator Yang...

Thailand sets election date for March 24

BANGKOK, Jan 23 (AP): Thailand's Election Commission on Wednesday announced that the nation's first general election since the military seized power in a 2014 coup will be held on March 24.The long-awaited announcement came just hours after Thailand's royal palace issued a decree authorizing the polls.The decree published Wednesday in...

Landslides, flood kill eight people in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Jan 23 (AP): Torrential rains overwhelmed a dam and caused landslides that killed at least eight people and displaced more than 2,000 in central Indonesia, officials said on Wednesday.The dead included two infants who drowned and a man who was electrocuted after the floods began late Tuesday, said Adnan...

News in Brief -(24-1-2019)

Aid group warns of CAR 'catastrophe'LONDON, Jan 23: The leader of an international aid group says Central African Republic (CAR) "is steering toward a catastrophe" unless a new round of peace talks in Sudan this week succeed. Jan Egeland, the Norwegian Refugee Council's secretary general, says repeated cycles of violence...