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VIDEO OF MH17 DOWNING  SHOWS AlARM IN UKRAINE

Hrabove: Four months after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine, a new video shows how close the burning passenger jet came to hitting village homes and suggests that residents first assumed it was a Ukrainian military plane that had been struck. The amateur footage, filmed by a resident of Hrabove, shows people reacting in alarm as wreckage blazes only a few meters away from their homes on the afternoon of July 17.

UAE bans 5 Pak-based outfits among 86

Dubai: The UAE has come out with a list of 86 banned terror outfits that has five Pakistan-based groups, including the dreaded Haqqani network and the leT.

Baby body parts found in Bangkok package

Bangkok: The body parts of several babies have been found in a parcel destined for the United States, Thai police said. A baby’s head, several feet and “sheets of skin” — including one taken from an adult and bearing a large tattoo — were discovered yesterday after staff at a Bangkok parcel company scanned the package.

Ruins of river bank, old city wall found in China

Beijing: The remains of a bank revetment and walls were found in China’s Fujian province, which experts believe could help them get a glimpse of a city built some 1,100 years ago, a report said.

‘Nawaz paid IB `270 cr to fail protests’

lahore: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan alleged that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif paid the country’s Intelligence Bureau Rs 270 crore to fail his anti-government protests in Islamabad.

Israeli stabbed in Jerusalem: police

Jerusalem: An Israeli man was stabbed in the back in annexed east Jerusalem on Sunday in what police said they believed was an attack by a Palestinian motivated by nationalism.

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