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Russia wants anti-IS alliance with US, France and even Turkey Paris: Russia would be prepared to "create a joint staff" to fight the Islamic State in which Moscow would work with France, the United States and even Turkey, the Russian ambassador to France said on Wednesday. "We are prepared to... Plan strikes on Daesh (IS) positions together and create a joint staff with France, the US, with all the countries who want to be in this coalition," said Alexander Orlov. He told Europe 1 radio that despite rising tensions after Turkey downed a Russian military jet on Tuesday, "if the Turks want to be in (the joint staff) as well, they are welcome". Speaking following talks at the White House between French President Francois Hollande and Barack Obama yesterday, the US president said it would be "enormously helpful" if Russia would work...

Disabled man to be hanged as Pakistan's 300th execution Islamabad: Jail authorities in Pakistan were on Tuesday set to hang a paraplegic who developed tubercular meningitis while on death row after being convicted of murder, which according to rights group will be the 300th execution since the controversial moratorium was lifted in the country. Abdul Basit, 43, who is paralysed from the waist down, was convicted in May 2009 of murder and is scheduled to be hanged on Wednesday. The Amnesty International, in its report on Tuesday, said it has recorded 299 executions since the death penalty was reinstated following a deadly attack last year on an army-run public school in Peshawar that claimed over 150 lives, mostly of children. A total of 45 people were executed in October alone, Amnesty said, making it the deadliest month since the moratorium was lifted. ...