The Dalai Lama has been admitted to hospital in New Delhi for treatment but is “doing much better” and should be released soon, his close aide told AFP on Wednesday. “His Holiness is doing much better, but he is still undergoing treatment at a hospital and we hope in few days he will be discharged,” Tenzin Taklha, […]
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Turkey’s foreign minister says his country could look “elsewhere” if the US doesn’t deliver F-35 fighter jets. Mevlut Cavusoglu also said in an interview with private NTV television on Tuesday that Turkey could consider acquiring more Russian-made S-400s or other systems to meet urgent needs if it can’t purchase US Patriot systems. Turkey’s moves to […]
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Lawmakers in New Zealand voted almost unanimously on Wednesday to change gun laws, less than a month after its worst peacetime mass shooting, in which 50 people were killed in attacks on two mosques in Christchurch. Parliament passed the gun reform bill, the first substantial changes to New Zealand’s gun laws in decades, by 119 […]
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The Indian Election Commission has sought a report on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks at a rally in Maharashtra yesterday asking first-time voters to dedicate their ballots to the armed forces Times of India reported on Wednesday. “I want to tell the first-time voters: can your first vote be dedicated to the soldiers [who carried out the […]
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won the Israeli national election, securing a record fifth term in office despite running neck-and-neck with his challenger Benny Gantz, the country’s three main television channels said on Wednesday. With 97 per cent of the votes counted, neither of the candidates’ parties had captured a ruling majority, but Netanyahu was clearly […]
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The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), on Prime Minister Imran Khan’s directives, has dispatched 32 tons of relief goods as humanitarian assistance to flood-hitIran, according to the Foreign Office (FO). The consignment comprises two shipments containing 500 tents, 3,300 blankets and emergency medical kits. The first shipment has already been dispatched to the Iranian city of […]
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India’s Congress party chief Rahul Gandhi has filed his nomination for another term as a member of Parliament from Amethi, a family bastion in the vote-rich state of Uttar Pradesh. Gandhi’s mother, Sonia Gandhi, the widow of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who is running for a seat from Rae Bareli, another city in […]
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KABUL: Taliban fighters stormed army checkpoints in southern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border overnight, killing 20 troops, an official said on Tuesday. Eight other security forces were also wounded in Monday night’s attack in Shorabak district, Mohammad Yousof Younosi, a provincial council member in Kandahar, said. An official from the provincial governor’s office, who was […]
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US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States would impose tariffs on $11 billion of products from the European Union, a day after U.S. trade officials proposed a list of EU products to target as part of an ongoing aircraft dispute. “The World Trade Organisation finds that the European Union subsidies to Airbus […]
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that the United States was the real “leader of world terrorism” after Washington blacklisted Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a “foreign terrorist organisation”. “Who are you to label revolutionary institutions as terrorists?” Rouhani asked in a speech broadcast live by state television. Speaking at a ceremony to mark Iran’s national nuclear […]
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