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Digest for international stories for week Mar 11- Mar 17, 2017

Saturday Damascus: Twin bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims killed 59 people in Damascus, most of them Iraqis, a monitoring group said of one of the bloodiest attacks in the Syrian capital.

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Saturday

Damascus: Twin bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims killed 59 people in Damascus, most of them Iraqis, a monitoring group said of one of the bloodiest attacks in the Syrian capital.

New York: India-born US attorney Preet Bharara was "fired" by the Trump administration after he refused to quit following orders to the 46 Obama administration-appointed attorneys to resign immediately.

United Nations: Afghanistan warns Pakistan to desist from using radical terrorists as a "foreign policy accessory", saying peace talks cannot progress if it pretends to be a "selective victim".

Sunday

Islamabad: Pakistan is set to conduct its first national census in 19 years for which it will deploy nearly 200,000 troops.

Port-au-Prince: A runaway bus plowed into a crowd of people in the Haitian city of Gonaives, killing 34 people and injuring 15 others, says officials.

Beirut: The toll from twin bombings targeting Shiite pilgrims in the centre of Damascus has risen to 74 dead, a monitor has said.

Monday

London: British MPs overwhelmingly approves a bill allowing Prime Minister Theresa May to trigger negotiations for the UK's exit from the European Union.

Beijing: China hoped the admission of India and Pakistan into the Beijing-led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) security grouping will contribute to security and stability in the region.

New York: India-born top US prosecutor Preet Bharara and the White House have offered conflicting explanations for a phone call that came from President Donald Trump's office to the US Attorney just hours before he was fired after he adamantly refused to resign from his post.

Tuesday

Karachi: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif warns against the forced conversion and destruction of worship places of other religions, describing them as "crime in Islam" as he greeted the Hindu community which celebrates the Holi festival with traditional enthusiasm across Pakistan.

London: Prime Minister Theresa May says the UK was nearing a "defining moment" as she awaits a final approval from the Queen to trigger the Brexit bill after she received the backing from both houses of Parliament.

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif orders authorities to take immediate action against 'blasphemous' content on the social media and remove sacrilegious contents and punish the perpetrators, days after a high court order.

Wednesday

Washington: Two Russian intelligence agents and a duo of hackers were indicted over a data breach that compromised 500 million Yahoo accounts in one of the largest cyberattacks in history.

Islamabad: A three-member Indian delegation of MPs meets Pakistan's National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq who said greater interaction and dialogue between the two sides can play a pivotal role in strengthening ties.

Beirut: At least 14 children were among 20 people killed in an air strike in Syria's northwestern Idlib province at dawn, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.

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