Pakistan, Afghanistan both want violence reduced: Abdullah

ISLAMABAD: Afghan pea­ce­maker Abdullah Abdullah has said that Pakistan is “on the same page” as Afghanistan in relation to the need for reduction in violence and flexibility in Doha intra-Afghan negotiations by Taliban. In an interview on Wednes­day, hours before returning to Kabul after completing his three-day visit to Pakistan, the chairman of High Council for National […]

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Indian actions in held Kashmir a threat to peace: FO

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a letter to the president of the UN Security Council has highlighted the threats to peace from Indian actions in occupied Kashmir. Foreign Office spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri at the weekly media briefing on Thursday said the latest letter to the UNSC president was “part of Pakistan’s efforts […]

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Azerbaijan ‘determined’ to fight until Armenian troops leave Karabakh

Azerbaijan on Wednesday vowed to pursue military action against Armenian separatists in the breakaway Nagorny Karabakh region until a full Armenian withdrawal from the disputed territory. Armenian and Azerbaijani forces are engaged in the heaviest fighting in years over Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian province that broke away from Azerbaijan in the 1990s during the collapse of the […]

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Indian court acquits Hindu nationalist leaders in Babri Masjid demolition case for ‘lack of evidence’

An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted Hindu nationalist leaders, including former deputy prime minister Lal Krishna Advani, in a case over the demolition of a mosque at a disputed site 28 years ago, citing a lack of evidence. The demolition sparked nationwide riots that killed more than 3,000 people in a decades-long dispute that has […]

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Kuwait’s new emir takes oath, calls for unity at tense time for region

Kuwait’s new emir was sworn in at parliament on Wednesday as the country prepared to lay to rest late ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who helped steer the US-allied Gulf state through some of the Middle East’s most turbulent decades. The cabinet swiftly named designated successor Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah as ruler on […]

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Hungary government Twitter account briefly suspended

The Hungarian government said it has demanded answers from Twitter after its official account was temporarily suspended on Wednesday “without any warning or explanation”. A government spokesman portrayed the suspension as an act of censorship against nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government. For over an hour any attempt to access the account prompted the message: […]

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Death toll rises to 39 as fighting between Armenia, Azerbaijan enters second day

Armenian separatists in the breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh said on Monday 15 more of its fighters have been killed in a flare-up of a territorial dispute, bringing the death toll to 39 as the fighting entered a second day. World leaders have urged a halt to the fighting between Azerbaijan and the Armenian rebels […]

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Protests in Madrid before widening of partial lockdown

MADRID: Protesters hit the streets of Madrid against virus restrictions on Sunday, a day before a partial lockdown is extended to more areas of Spain’s capital region try to curb a surge in coronavirus cases. The city with its surrounding region is at the epicentre of a second wave of infections sweeping Spain. Covid-19 has […]

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Beijing unveils new protections for health emergency whistleblowers

China’s capital Beijing will protect whistleblowers who disclose information about public health emergencies, it said on Sunday, part of the country’s efforts to fix some of the systemic faults that hindered its initial response to the Covid-19 outbreak. The Beijing city government said it would offer rewards to health workers who disclose vital information about […]

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Police clash with anti-racism protesters and press in Portland

PORTLAND: Police clashed with anti-racism protesters and pushed back members of the press in downtown Portland, Oregon, into early Sunday morning, making more than 20 arrests. The violence followed a relatively peaceful rally by the right-wing Proud Boys group and counter protests by anti-fascist and Black Lives Matter activists on Saturday. Videos published online showed […]

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