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26 killed in rain, snow-related incidents in Pakistan

Daily Dispatch January 13, 2020

Heavy rain and snowfall, on Monday continued to wreak havoc by disrupting daily life in different areas of Pakistan, killing at least 26 people in the last 24 hours, local media and officials said. According to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), Balochistan Pakistan’s

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Death toll in Niger terrorists attack rises to 89

Daily Dispatch January 13, 2020

Niger on Monday began three days of national mourning after suspected terrorists killed 89 people in an attack on a military camp near the border to Mali. The defence ministry had initially placed the number of dead soldiers at 31 after the attack on an army post in the town of Chinagodrar in western Niger […]

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Queen Elizabeth II calls for family crisis meeting over Harry, Meghan

Daily Dispatch January 13, 2020

Meghan Markle, officially known as the Duchess of Sussex, will reportedly attend a crisis family meeting by phone on Monday to talk strategy in repairing damage done to the royal family after she had returned to Canada. According to British news outlets, Queen Elizabeth II has summoned her grandson Prince Harry and his wife for […]

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Trump will lose coming election – Bernie Sanders

Daily Dispatch January 13, 2020

Bernie Sanders, the frontline Democratic party aspirant for the 2020 U.S presidential election, has told the U.S. President Donald Trump that he would not win re-election. Sanders stated this after Trump mocked him in a tweet on Sunday. Trump had tweeted: “Wow! Crazy Bernie Sanders is surging in the polls, looking very good against his […]

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Iran’s only female Olympic medalist flees from country

Daily Dispatch January 12, 2020

Iran’s only female Olympic medalist has said on social media she had left her homeland. Taekwondo champion Kimia Alizadeh said this was because she had had enough of being used by Iranian authorities as a propaganda tool. She won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Alizadeh implied in an Instagram post that she […]

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Trump approves new sanctions against Iran

Daily Dispatch January 10, 2020

US President Donald Trump has authorised new sanctions against Iran. US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, made this known on Friday in a live address. Trump ordered immediate economic sanctions on Iran on Wednesday.