ISLAMABAD: Following the latest escalation of tensions between Pakistan and India, China on Wednesday called for restraint and said it would engage with India on the issue of listing of Jaish-e-Mohammad leader Maulana Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the United Nations. “China hopes that Pakistan and India can exercise restraint, engage in dialogues […]
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A man with a history of mental illness wounded 11 people with a knife after attacking random pedestrians in central China, local authorities said on Thursday. The suspect, a 33-year-old man named Guo Kaibin, is already in police custody, according to a social media notice posted by police in Ji’an, a city in central Jiangxi […]
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United States President Donald Trump has said that his government will comment on last week’s suicide bombing in Pulwama — that killed more than 40 Indian troops — at “an appropriate time”. Trump, while answering a question from the media regarding the attack, said: “I have watched; I have got a lot of reports on it. We will have […]
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in a joint statement issued during his day-long visit to India on Wednesday described terrorism and extremism as a common concern and said that Riyadh is ready to share intelligence with New Delhi to tackle these issues. Prince Mohammad arrived in Delhi on Tuesday night, a day after wrapping […]
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India’s top court told billionaire tycoon Anil Ambani on Wednesday he must pay his debts to Sweden’s Ericsson or go to jail, the latest twist in a saga that forced his telecom company to file for bankruptcy. Ambani’s debt-laden Reliance Communications is some $4 billion dollars in debt after a brutal telecom price war that […]
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The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) in Indian-occupied Kashmir on Wednesday warned New Delhi against pursuing aggressive policies that promote “the worst kind of violence”, saying they cause youths to turn to armed resistance. After Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi said he was giving Indian soldiers a “free hand” in the wake of the Pulwama attack, Kashmiris have […]
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A Pakistani prisoner, identified as Shakirullah, on Wednesday was allegedly beaten to death by a group of inmates at the Jaipur Central Jail, Indian media reported. The deceased, hailing from Sialkot, was undergoing life imprisonment after his conviction in a terror-related case in Jaipur in 2017, said The Hindu. Shakirullah reportedly received serious head injuries caused by […]
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US lawmakers said on Tuesday they were probing whether President Donald Trump is rushing to sell sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia to please corporate supporters who stand to profit handsomely. The House of Representatives committee in charge of investigations, led by the rival Democratic Party since last month, said that “multiple whistleblowers” warned of […]
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Venezuela’s military said on Tuesday it was on alert at its frontiers following threats by United States President Donald Trump and suspended air and sea links with the island of Curacao ahead of a planned aid shipment. Opposition leader and self-declared interim president Juan Guaido has vowed to bring aid in from various points Saturday […]
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An eighth Labour Member of Parliament quit the party on Wednesday in protest against leader Jeremy Corbyn, joining a mounting rebellion sparked by rows over anti-Semitism and Brexit. Joan Ryan told BBC radio that Corbyn had “introduced or allowed to happen in our party this scourge of anti-Semitism. It has completely infected the party”. “The other huge […]
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