A dangerously intense heatwave across much of Europe is to spike even higher on Thursday after already breaking records in several countries, impacting rail traffic and sending people in search of shade and water. Paris was expected to see the mercury soar to as much as 41 or 42 degrees Celsius, breaking a 70-year-plus record […]
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At least 10 people — including several women and a child — were killed and 41 others wounded by a series of blasts that rocked the Afghan capital on Thursday ahead of the election season. The three blasts came amid a wider surge in violence in Kabul and around Afghanistan, where nine family members were […]
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed a trio of congressional resolutions aimed at blocking his administration from selling billions of dollars of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month cited threats from Iran as a reason to approve the $8.1 billion arms sale to the two […]
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Nokia says its second-quarter earnings nearly doubled on the back of orders from telecom operators for new-generation 5G mobile networks that will be commercially launched en masse this year. The Espoo, Finland-based company on Thursday said that its net profit for the April-June period was 258 million euros ($287 million), against 139 million euros a […]
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WASHINGTON: The US president “does not make things up”, says a top presidential adviser, rejecting the Indian claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had never asked President Donald Trump to mediate between Pakistan and India on the issue of Kashmir. Addressing a joint press conference with Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House on Monday, President […]
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China on Wednesday accused the United States of undermining global stability with unilateral policies and “power politics” as the Defense Ministry issued the first comprehensive outline of its policies since President Xi Jinping came to power more than six years ago. The US was the first country mentioned in the document’s opening section about “prominent […]
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Spokesperson of the Foreign Office Dr Mohammad Faisal on Wednesday summoned India’s Deputy High Commissioner Gaurav Ahluwalia to record Pakistan’s protest over the “unprovoked ceasefire violations” along the Line of Control (LoC) and the Working Boundary by Indian forces, which have resulted in the killing of two civilians. According to a press statement issued by […]
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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued to block a US House of Representatives committee from obtaining his New York state tax returns, with his lawyer accusing the Democratic-controlled panel of “presidential harassment”. In a filing in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, Trump’s lawyers argued that a law passed by New […]
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DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has said it is not leaving Yemen despite a redeployment of its forces in the war-torn country, as Houthi rebels said they were ready to stop attacks on Saudi Arabia. The UAE is a key partner in a Saudi-led military coalition which intervened in Yemen in 2015 to back the […]
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NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday gave authorities in a northeastern state an extra month to complete a citizenship list to identify illegal immigrants in an exercise that has stoked concern for millions of people, most of them Muslim. Residents of state of Assam, which borders Bangladesh, have to produce documents proving that they […]
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