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NEW YORK CITY: A helicopter carrying six people crashed in New York City’s East River on Sunday, killing all passengers, while the pilot escaped, police said. Two of the five passengers died at the scene and three were taken to two area hospitals where they later died, a spokesman for …

WASHINGTON – Six Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in a US drone strike near the Pak-Afghan border on Monday, News reported. According to reports, the strike took place in the Nangarhar province’s Nazyan district. The drone targeted the hideout of the IS, resulting in the death of terrorists. It …

NEW YORK: Five people have died after a helicopter owned by a tour group plunged into Manhattan’s East River, police said on Monday. The red chopper, which is owned by tourism group Liberty, was carrying six people including the pilot when it crashed into the river near the upscale Upper …

WASHINGTON: A senior US diplomat has said that the United States cannot hold direct talks with the Taliban as it’s doing with North Korea because there’s no comparison between the two situations. Instead, US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice Wells urged the insurgents …

WASHINGTON: Pakistan is not helping enough with resolving issues related to cross-border terrorism and the problems faced by Afghanistan, said former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton at the India Today Conclave 2018. To a question regarding the crisis surrounding Afghanistan, Hillary said that the country has been under pressure …

WASHINGTON: The US government has said it firmly supports the territorial integrity of Pakistan and does not support Baloch insurgency or any group that threatens the country. “We firmly support Pakistan’s territorial integrity,” Alice Wells, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs at State Department, told …

Unauthorized workers are paying an estimated $13 billion a year in social security taxes and only getting around $1 billion back, according to a senior government statistician. Stephen Goss, the chief actuary of the Social Security Administration (SSA), told VICE News that an estimated 7 million people are currently working …

Military vehicles will roll through Washington on November 11 in a salute to veterans, a Pentagon memo said Friday, detailing President Donald Trump’s dream of hosting a military parade. The White House announced a month ago that Trump had asked for a large-scale military parade, an unconventional call that immediately …

President Donald Trump has agreed to a historic first meeting with Kim Jong Un in a stunning development in America’s high-stakes nuclear standoff with North Korea. Standing in front of the White House, South Korean National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong announced the first ever meeting between a US president and …

NEW YORK: Pakistan has told the United Nations (UN) that the opportunity for peace in Afghanistan opened up by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s offer of unconditional talks to the Taliban should not be undermined by the escalation of military force. Speaking during the UN Security Council debate on Afghanistan, Pakistan’s …