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Mountaineering companies are trying hard to keep in 

touch with Everest climbers and tourists.

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Mountaineering companies are trying hard to keep in touch with Everest climbers and tuorists.

U.S. corporations and travel teams frantically tried to stay to bear with climbers stuck on mountain peak on Sabbatum once a seven.9-magnitude earthquake ravaged Kingdom of Nepal and killed nearly one,400 people----------MORE

 

 

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How are the Consequences of Afghan War?

About three decades of war have broken Afghanistan’s once-thriving carpet trade, however weavers  sound into the bloody past to spice up their fortunes with “war rugs” portraying guns, tanks and warplanes.

On Chicken Street, the foremost noted street in Afghanistan throughout the “hippie trail” travelers' days of the late 60s and 70s and still the place to come back for souvenirs, a number of the carpets within the outlets seem like pages of the country’s 
destroyed history.------>>Read More>>

WASHINGTON: A White House spokesman on Thursday declined to rule out an eventual visit to the White House by Cuban President Raul Castro a day after President Barack Obama announced plans to normalize U.S. relations with Havana.-----------------------more

With Anger, grief  Pakistan buries Taliban 

victims

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Pakistan Wednesday mourned 148 people – mostly children – killed by the Taliban in a school massacre that prompted global revulsion and put the government under new pressure to combat the scourge of militancy.

Across the country, many schools closed as a mark of respect, while others held special prayers for those killed in Tuesday’s bloodshed in the northwestern city of Peshawar.

The assault on an army-run school is the deadliest terror attack in Pakistan’s history.

It brought international condemnation, as well as promises of a decisive crackdown on militants from political and military leaders.-------------[Read More}

Russia's economic troubles could last for two years:Putin 

 Russia's economic troubles could last for

 two years:Putin 

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MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia's current economic difficulties could last for the next two years but the situation could improve faster.-------------[Read More]

Typhoon Roars Through Philippines

A powerful, slow-moving typhoon ripped through the central Philippines on Sunday, bringing howling winds that flattened houses and toppled trees and power lines in areas still scarred from a deadly super-storm just over a year ago.

In the coastal villages of Dolores, on Samar island, where Typhoon Hagupit first made landfall on Saturday night, Mayor Emiliana Villacarillo said around 80 percent of homes were destroyed.

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 Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite In North Korea

Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite In North Korea

 Though poverty and isolation, North Korea has poured resources into a sophisticated cyber-warfare cell called Bureau 121, defectors from the secretive state said as Pyongyang came under the microscope for a crippling hack into computers at Sony Pictures Entertainment.

A North Korean diplomat has denied Pyongyang --[Read More]

 Protests Stoke National Outrage on Police Violence in New York

On Friday in a third day of demonstrations against police violence, thousands of protesters were expected to take to the streets of New York , even as prosecutors said they would consider charges against an officer for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in November.------[Read More]