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Putin, Trump may meet first without aides

MOSCOW, July 03 (Agencies): A Kremlin spokesman says that Russian President Vladimir Putin and US president Donald Trump may meet in private during their upcoming summit in Helsinki.Dmitry Peskov told reporters Tuesday that if both sides agree, Putin and Trump could meet tete-a-tete without their aides before the start of...

Rain-triggered incidents leave nine persons dead in Lahore

ISLAMABAD, July 03 (Xinhua): At least nine people were killed and 10 others injured in separate rain-related accidents in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday, local media reported.Local Urdu TV channel Abb Takk, citing rescue officials, said that six people, including two policemen, died of electrocution in different areas...

Four Indian priests face probe for rape, blackmail

NEW DELHI, July 03 (Agencies): Indian police said Tuesday they are investigating four Christian priests for allegedly raping and blackmailing a woman in a cycle of abuse and threats lasting almost 20 years.The woman told police that her ordeal began while still a minor in the 1990s when an Orthodox...

63 migrants go missing in Med shipwreck

TRIPOLI, July 03 (AFP): Sixty-three migrants are missing after the inflatable boat they were on sunk off the coast of Libya, a spokesman for the country's navy told AFP, citing eyewitness accounts from survivors.General Ayoub Kacem said that 41 migrants wearing life jackets were rescued. According to the survivors, there...

12 perish in Indonesia ferry accident

JAKARTA, July 03 (AFP): At least a dozen people, including two children, died Tuesday after a ferry ran aground off the coast of Indonesia, officials said, as rescuers raced to save more than 125 other passengers thought to be aboard the vessel.The deadly incident comes the same day authorities officially...

Fighting forces 270,000 to leave homes in S Syria

AMMAN, July 03 (Reuters): The number of people forced to flee their homes in southwestern Syria as a result of the two week escalation in fighting has climbed to 270,000 people, the UN refugee spokesman in Jordan said.The United Nations said last week 160,000 had been displaced as they fled...

Iraq begins hand recount of May ballots in Kirkuk city

BAGHDAD, July 03 (AP): Iraq's state TV says the country's election commission has begun a hand recount of the ballots from May's parliamentary elections in the northern city of Kirkuk.The TV on Tuesday showed dozens of ballot boxes lined up on ground at a covered sports hall as commission employees...

News in Brief -(04-07-2018

UNICEF chief condemns Yemen for death of 2,200 children GENEVA, July 03: The UN slammed Tuesday the devastating impact of Yemen's three-year conflict on children, with some 2,200 minors killed, and many more going hungry, forced to fight or dying from preventable diseases. "The relentless conflict in Yemen has pushed...