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Pakistan back on terrorism list

Daily Dispatch February 23, 2018

Three years after it exited terrorist financing watchlist, a global money-laundering watchdog has placed Pakistan back on the same list, Indian media and a diplomatic source said on Friday. The move is part of a broader U.S. strategy to pressure Pakistan to cut alleged links to Islamist

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Police find $62m worth of cocaine in Russian embassy

Daily Dispatch February 23, 2018

Police have seized nearly 400 kilos of cocaine from the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires and arrested several members of a drug trafficking gang, Argentina’s security minister announced Thursday. Patricia Bullrich told a press conference that the drugs discovered in an annex of the embassy had a street value of around 50 million euros (about […]

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Saudi dilutes Islam further, plans $64b splash on entertainment

Daily Dispatch February 23, 2018

Saudi Arabia announced plans Thursday to spend $64 billion on building new venues and flying in Western acts, in a total overhaul of its entertainment sector that would have been unthinkable not long ago in the Islamic theocracy. Long known for its ultra-conservative mores, the kingdom has embarked on a wide-ranging programme of social and […]

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Boko Haram kills five civilians in Cameroon attack

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2018

Boko Haram jihadists killed five civilians and wounded five others in northern Cameroon on Tuesday night after crossing the border from Nigeria, local sources said Thursday. “A group of Boko Haram fighters made an incursion during the night in Assigashia,” a source close to administrative authorities in the area said, asking not be named. “The […]

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Diarrhoea kills 26 Congolese in Ugandan refugee camp

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2018

Twenty-six Congolese refugees at a fast-growing camp in western Uganda died from acute diarrhoea in just three days, the UN said Thursday. Tens of thousands of people have fled an upsurge of fighting in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, many of them arriving weak and unwell at Ugandan camps that […]

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How world’s largest brain tumour was removed in India

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2018

Surgeons in Mumbai, India, have removed a 1.87-kg brain tumour from a 31-year-old man, saying it to be the largest in the world. The surgery lasted for seven hours at the Nair Hospital. News of the procedure was made public recently after the hospital ensured the surgery was successful as the patient, Santlal Pal, had […]