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Pakistan PM House to be turned into postgraduate institute

The Pakistan Prime Minister's House will be turned into a campus of a postgraduate institute, said a minister on Thursday while divulging governments plans to utilize official buildings for public use. Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood told the media that the public was fed up of the previous governments' "royal" ways of living, Geo news said. The minister said it was important that government officials live in a way that does not waste public money, which is why Prime Minister Imran Khan has decided that he would not stay in the PM House and governors will not stay in Governor Houses to cut down on costs, he added.

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Tanzanian held at Mumbai airport for drug trafficking

The CISF on Thursday caught a Tanzanian national at Mumbai airport for carrying six kg of suspected contraband item Ephedrine, the paramilitary force said. Ibrahim Abdullah Shabani, who was supposed to travel from Mumbai to Muscut by Oman Airways flight around 4.05 p.m., was held around 1.55 p.m. during checking of his luggage at Terminal 2 of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Assistant Inspector General Hemendra Singh said.

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US gunman kills 5, including his wife, before shooting himself

An unidentified gunman shot dead five people, including his wife, and later committed suicide in the US state of California, authorities said.

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Child sex abuse: Germany's Catholic Church 'dismayed, ashamed'

A new report from Germany's Catholic Church admits to "at least" 3,766 cases of child sex abuse by the clergy between 1946 and 2014, according to media outlets Die Zeit and Spiegel Online.

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Over 1,300 people evacuated due to gas leak in Mexico

A gas leak in the Mexican state of Puebla forced the evacuation early on Wednesday of more than 1,300 people across seven neighbourhoods in the like-named capital, officials said.

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Wah.. Kolkata to China in few hours.. New Bullet train

Chinese Consul-General in Kolkata Ma Zhanwu on September 12 said his country was mooting a bullet train service between Kunming and Kolkata, traversing through Myanmar and Bangladesh. “With joint efforts of India and China, a high-speed rail link could be established between the two cities,” Mr. Ma said at a conference in Kolkata. “It will only take a few hours to reach Kolkata from Kunming if the rail link becomes a reality,” he asserted.

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Indian guns for Suu Kyi

Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna has said that he wants to revoke Myanmar State Counsellor Suu Kyi's Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honour in the US, which was bestowed on her with much fanfare six years ago. Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi has been silent as military rulers of Myanmar ravaged the Rohingyas, an ethnic minority group on the country's western border, in a brutal campaign the UN deemed "genocide". "For Aung San Suu Kyi to not speak out and to talk about a proportionate response to terrorism is a total abdication of any morality," Khanna, a Democrat from California, was quoted as saying by the Hill newspaper.

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1500000 US citizens face 'death threat'

More than 1.5 million people have been asked to evacuate their homes along the Virginia, North and South Carolina coasts as Category 5 storm Hurricane Florence approaches, an official said. It is expected to make landfall in the area later this week, Efe news reported. Hurricane Florence is packing sustained winds of 140 miles (220 km) per hour and remains an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm as it approaches the US eastern coastline, specifically the Carolinas.

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World War.. China, US an war path

China on Wednesday told the US to stop interfering in its domestic affairs on the pretext of Uighurs in Xinjiang and warned that bilateral ties will be hurt if it slapped sanctions against senior Chinese officials. The US State Department on Tuesday said it was worried over Beijing's "worsening crackdown" on Uighur Muslims in China's far western Xinjiang province. A news report also said that Washington was weighing options to put sanctions on the Chinese officials involved in the policy making in the restive region.

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Oil shock for India.. International crude prices at $76.02

The basket of crude oil used as a benchmark indicator by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries increased to $76.02, the OPEC Secretariat said here on Wednesday. The OPEC said the price of its basket went up by $0.82 on Tuesday, compared with the closing price at the previous session.

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