A well organised and well-rehearsed Annual Sports Day prize distribution ceremony was held at the Town Boys Branch of The City School, Peshawar. Former Minister for Sports Syed Aqil Shah was the chief guest on

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Manchester City improved their prospects of qualifying for the Champions League with a 5-0 demolition of Crystal Palace, while relegation-threatened Hull suffered a damaging 2-0 defeat against Sunderland on Saturday. Frustrated by damaging draws in

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Indonesian security forces were Saturday hunting for more than 200 inmates still on the loose after a mass breakout from an overcrowded prison on Sumatra island, police said. More than 440 inmates fled the jail

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Workers at the Collahuasi copper mine in Chile, owned by Anglo American and Glencore, have sealed a new contract with management that runs until 2020, the two parties said in a statement released on Friday.

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The radical Palestinian group Islamic Jihad has rejected Hamas's new policy of easing its stand on Israel and accepting the establishment of a Palestinian state limited to the 1967 borders. "As partners with our Hamas

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Several thousand people demonstrated in Warsaw on Saturday against Poland's conservative, eurosceptic ruling party in an attempt by the opposition to build momentum ahead of next year's municipal elections. The crowd, variously estimated at between

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German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Saturday upbraided Switzerland for allegedly monitoring German finance inspectors who hunt cross-border tax cheats. In a further sign of Germany's anger over the affair, Gabriel said the episode was

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Boko Haram militants killed nine Chadian soldiers in an attack on a military camp on Friday in the north of the Central African country close to the Nigerian border, an army spokesman said on Saturday.

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Two explosions in the Philippine capital on Saturday night killed two people and injured six others, police said, just over a week after another blast in the same area. An initial blast occurred around 6:00pm

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The World Bank has resumed direct budget support to impoverished Malawi with an $80-million injection three years after donors pulled out due to a "cashgate" corruption scandal, officials said Saturday. Donors, which provide about 40

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