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Just tough Trump tweeting? US ratchets up Iran pressure

Washington, Jul 24 : President Donald Trump’s explosive Twitter threat to Iran’s leader comes as his administration is ratcheting up a pressure campaign on the Islamic republic that many suspect is aimed at regime change. No one is predicting imminent war. But Trump’s bellicose, all-caps challenge addressed to President Hassan Rouhani followed a speech by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ...

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Universal credit IT system ‘broken’, whistleblowers say

Service centre staff say glitches having harmful effect on huge number of claimants Universal credit is so riddled with design flaws and process faults that it is practically guaranteed to generate mistakes and delays that would push vulnerable benefit claimants into hardship, according to whistleblowers. Service centre workers have told the Guardian that glitches and errors in the “cobbled-together” system ...

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Theresa May to take her Brexit roadshow to the north-east

Prime minister sets off on summer tour to gain public support for Chequers plan Theresa May will chair a cabinet meeting in the north-east of England as she starts a summer campaign intended to gain public support for her much-criticised Chequers Brexit plan. The visit on Monday is intended primarily to show the government’s ongoing support for the “northern powerhouse” ...

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Annual Dinner of Conservative Friends of Bangladesh held

  Conservative Friends of Bangladesh organised its annual dinner and award giving ceremony on 17th of July in a hotel in Kensington.  A number of British MPs and senior party leaders took part in the dinner. While addressing the audience, the MPs told that there will be MPs of Bangladeshi origin from Conservative Party in near future. A number of Conservative ...

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22 killed, 12 missing in Vietnam’s floods

Heavy rain, flash floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Son Tinh have left 22 people dead, 12 missing and 26 injured in Vietnam’s central and northern regions, the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said on Monday morning.   Among 22 deaths, 11 were from northern Yen Bai province, four from northern Son La province, three from ...

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Police press charges against eight suspects over Dhaka attack

Police have pressed charges against eight suspects over the bloody militant attack on Gulshan’s Holey Artisan Bakery, which led to the deaths of 20 hostages, mostly foreigners.   The charge sheet has been placed before a local court on Monday morning after all formalities were completed, said Police Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit Chief Monirul Islam, whose unit led ...

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Fire at residential building kills 5 in northern India

New Delhi, Jul 23 : A fire at a residential building early Monday killed five people in northern India, police said. The fire broke out from an apartment building early in the morning in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh, said Dinesh Kumar, a police official. Television channels showed plume of smoke engulfing the area as fire tenders worked to douse ...

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Japan records its highest temperature ever

Tokyo, Jul 23 : Japanese media say a city north of Tokyo has reached the highest temperature ever recorded in the country. The temperature hit 41.1 degrees Celsius (106 degrees Fahrenheit) in Kumagaya on Monday afternoon. Japan and South Korea are in the middle of an extended heat wave. Japan’s Kyodo News agency has tallied more than 40 deaths in ...

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After a week of walkbacks, Trump returns to Russia doubting

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, in Morristown, N.J., Sunday, July 22, 2018, en route to Washington after staying at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. Washington, Jul 23 : Capping a week of drama, back tracking, a double negative and blistering statements from allies about his attitude toward Russian election interference, President Donald ...

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Blast in Afghanistan’s Kabul kills 14, returning VP unharmed

Kabul, July 23 : Afghanistan’s first vice president, a former Uzbek warlord, escaped unharmed from an explosion near the airport as he returned home on Sunday after living in Turkey for over a year, according to security officials. Najib Danish, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said a suicide bomber carried out the attack near Kabul International Airport shortly after ...

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