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Texas relaxed gun laws after recent mass shootings

Walmart to stop selling handgun ammunition

11:18 pm September 3, 2019

NEW YORK: Walmart says it will discontinue the sale of handgun ammunition and also publicly request that customers refrain from openly carrying firearms in stores even where state laws allow it. The announcement comes just days after a mass shooting claimed seven lives in Odessa, Texas and follows two other back-to-back shootings last month, one […]

Iranian oil tanker pursued by US says it is going to Turkey

3:28 pm August 24, 2019

Dubai: An Iranian-flagged oil tanker pursued by the US amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington changed its listed destination to a port in Turkey early Saturday after Greece said it wouldn’t risk its relations with America by aiding it. The crew of the Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as the Grace 1, updated its […]

Trump insists US already has ‘strong’ gun background checks

9:26 pm August 21, 2019

Washington : President Donald Trump has insisted that the US already has “very, very strong background checks” for gun purchases in the latest sign that he is backing away from throwing his political support behind changes to the system that are opposed by the powerful gun lobby. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on […]

Sunanda Pushkar was suffering from mental agony, Delhi Police tells court

11:14 pm August 20, 2019

New Delhi: Sunanda Pushkar, who was allegedly driven to commit suicide, was suffering from mental agony due to strained relationship with her husband and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor with whom she had a scuffle resulting in various injury marks few days before her death, the Delhi Police on Tuesday told a court here. Police accused […]

Afghan officials: 8 inmates dead after prison riot in Herat

Pakistan might redeploy troops from Afghan border amidst crisis with India over Kashmir: envoy

11:45 pm August 13, 2019

New York: Pakistan might redeploy troops from the Afghanistan border to the Kashmir frontier amidst fresh Indo-Pak tensions, according to Islamabad’s ambassador to the US, a move The New York Times said could complicate the ongoing peace talks between America and the Taliban. Such a possibility, coming just as Pakistan’s longstanding Kashmir crisis with India […]