The US military has said its special forces conducted an airstrike in Somalia on Saturday, killing four al-Shabab militants.


US army kills 4 al-Shabab militants in Somalia


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Special counsel Robert Mueller has said that President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort told "multiple dis­cern­ible lies" during interviews with prosecutors, including about his contacts with an employee who is alleged to have ties to Russian intelligence.


Manafort told multiple discernible lies: Mueller


Human rights violation is rampant throughout the country in the form of Bulandshahr Killing, death in Bengal's Lalgarh or Kathua rape case, a panel of human rights workers said here on Friday.


Human rights violation rampant in country: Activists


The Supreme Court on Friday sought the Enforcement Directorate's response on beleaguered industrialist Vijay Mallya's plea challenging the proceedings before a Mumbai court seeking to declare him a fugitive economic offender and attach his assets.


SC seeks response from ED on Mallya's plea


The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a charge sheet against its former Deputy Director Gurnam Singh alleging that he misrepresented the case of investors of Unipay ponzi schemes in collusion with an advocate, and took a bribe of Rs 4.5 crore from the promoters of the firm, the agency said on Friday.


Charge sheet against ED ex-Deputy Director in Unipay case


Australia has passed a controversial law designed to compel technology companies to grant police and security agencies access to encrypted messages on platforms like WhatsApp, prompting warnings from Facebook and other tech companies about the privacy risks involved in the move.


Australia passes encryption breaking law, tech firms slam move


Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has been honoured by Harvard University for her global work promoting girls education.


Malala Yousafzai honoured by Harvard University


Given the potential for abuse of the fast advancing facial recognition technology, governments across the world need to start adopting laws to regulate this technology in 2019, Microsoft President Brad Smith has said.


Regulation for facial recognition technology must start in 2019: Microsoft


A Special CBI court will pronounce on December 21 its judgement in the politically sensitive Sohrabuddin Anwar Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati twin encounters case and the rape-cum-murder of Kausar Bi of Gujarat.


Mumbai court verdict in Sohrabuddin 'encounter' on Dec 21


Australia on Friday passed controversial laws designed to compel technology companies to grant police and security agencies access to encrypted messages.


Australia passes encryption breaking laws


Senior Kerala BJP leader K. Surendran who was taken into custody from the Sabarimala base camp town nearly three weeks back for breaking a security cordon, on Friday secured bail from the Kerala High Court.


Kerala BJP leader Surendran gets bail after 20 days


Apprehensions of migrant family members who illegally crossed the southern border into the US broke another record in November, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics.


US border family arrests maintain record-high streak


Comedian Kevin Hart has refused to apologise for his earlier anti-gay comments despite Academy Awards' ultimatum.


Kevin Hart refuses to apologise for past anti-gay comments


Arab nations have deftly outmanoeuvred the US at the UN to defeat a resolution it sponsored condemning Hamas by requiring a two-thirds majority for it to pass, rather than the simple majority it received.


Arab nations outmanoeuvre US to defeat anti-Hamas resolution at UN


Aires Rodrigues, a Goa-based lawyer-cum-activist, has alleged harassment by the BJP-led government after the Crime Branch on Thursday issued summons to him to appear in connection with a criminal complaint filed in 2016 alleging that he is a Portuguese and so could not practice in an Indian court.


Goa activist cries foul after being summoned in two-year-old case


Punjab cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu's wife Navjot Kaur has been given a clean chit in a Punjab government-appointed magisterial probe into the Amritsar train tragedy on Dusshera evening in which 60 people died, sources said here on Thursday.


Amritsar train tragedy: Sidhu's wife gets clean chit


A Delhi Court on Thursday reserved order on the application of BJP MP Subramanian Swamy seeking to conduct prosecution in a case against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, accused of abetment to suicide of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.


Court reserves order on Swamy's plea in case against Tharoor


A fresh public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay High Court, seeking an unprecedented seven-judge bench to hear the case concerning the death of former CBI Special Judge B.H. Loya, a lawyer said here on Thursday.


Judge Loya death: Fresh plea in Bombay HC seeking 7-judge bench hearing


Retaliating to the BJPs allegations of "links with AgustaWestland middleman James Christian Michel", the Congress on Thursday raked up Finance Minister Arun Jaitley daughters law firm being engaged by fraudster Mehul Choksi and alleged a "BJP-Agusta nexus" claiming it promoted the controversial Italian defence company.


Congress, BJP trade charges over 'Agusta links'


When it comes to equality before God and in society, Dalits in India have made more progress than women, historian Ramachandra Guha said on Thursday, while speaking at the Goa Literary and Arts Festival held here.


On equality before God, Dalits have progressed more than women: Ramachandra Guha


The Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday refused to stay the release of forthcoming Bollywood film "Kedarnath", starring debutante Sara Ali Khan along with Sushant Singh Rajput.

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