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Afridi Announces International Retirement

Legendary Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi on Sunday announced his retirement from international cricket, ending an...

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Afridi Run Blitz Lifts PSL Gloom

Shahid Afridi lifted the gloom enveloping the Pakistan Super League with a whirlwind half century on Sunday but even...

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India, Pakistan Target Elusive Women’s World Cup Breakthrough

India downed Pakistan by seven wickets in qualifying for the 2017 Women's World Cup on Sunday but both made it to the...

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Pakistan T20 Final Must Be In Lahore, Says ICC Task Force Chief

A top international cricket official insisted Sunday that the final of Pakistan's Twenty20 league must be held in...

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Pope Calls For Quick Accord To End DR Congo Violence

Pope Francis on Sunday urged leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo to act quickly to resolve its political crisis...

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Man Taking Selfie Among Seven Dead In Iran Storms

A man taking a selfie after an Iranian dam burst was among at least seven people killed as floods, avalanches and dust...

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Timeline of Deadliest Insurgent Attacks In Pakistan

At least 70 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in Pakistan Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up...

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Security Crackdown As Pakistan Mourns Sufi Shrine Victims

Pakistan launched a nationwide security crackdown Friday, officials said, after a bomb ripped through a crowded Sufi...

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Islamic State-Claimed Bomb Kills 70 At Pakistan Shrine

At least 70 people were killed and hundreds wounded Thursday when a bomb ripped through a revered Sufi shrine in...

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Islamic State-Claimed Bomb Kills 70 At Pakistani Shrine

At least 70 people died Thursday when a bomb ripped through a crowded Sufi shrine in Pakistan, police said, in the...

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Deadly IS Attack On Sufi Shrine In Sindh

A suicide attack in a popular shrine in southern Pakistan has killed at least 50 people, reports say. The bomber blew...

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Pakistan Sufi Shrine Bombing Kills Up To 35

A bomb ripped through a crowded Sufi shrine in Pakistan Thursday, killing up to 35 people and wounding 60, officials...

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Court Acquits Three Over 2005 Delhi Bomb Blasts

An Indian court Thursday cleared three defendants over a series of bomb blasts in New Delhi in 2005 that killed 62...

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IED Kills Three Pakistani Soldiers

An improvised explosive device hit an army convoy on Thursday in the restive southwestern Pakistani province of...

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30 Killed In Suicide Attack At Pakistani Shrine

A suicide attack Thursday at Pakistan's Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in the southern city of Shewan in Sindh province...

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Pakistan Vow To Host PSL Final Despite Lahore Blast

Pakistani cricket officials have vowed to stage the final of their Twenty20 league in Lahore next month, despite a...

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Gambian President ‘appoints New Chief Justice’

President Adama Barrow has appointed a Gambian lawyer and former UN prosecutor as chief justice of the country's...

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Taliban Suicide Bombers Kill Five In NW Pakistan

Five people were killed Wednesday when two suicide bombers attacked a government compound in Pakistan's restive tribal...

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Sub-Saharan Africa Lags In Sustainable Energy Policies

Sub-Saharan Africa, where more than a half billion people live without electricity, trails the world in government...