KABUL: At least 29 members of the Afghan security forces have been killed in Taliban attacks that followed air and ground assaults by government forces on the Islamist group at the weekend. The surge in hostilities signals deadlock at stop-start peace talks involving US and Taliban negotiators in Doha. The Defence Ministry said on Sunday […]
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DHAKA: Authorities in Bangladesh in partnership with the United Nations will expand educational programs for hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya children living in refugee camps who are currently receiving only basic lessons, officials said on Wednesday. The children, who fled with their families from neighboring Myanmar to the camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazaar district, […]
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WASHINGTON: Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted his former national security adviser John Bolton as he emerged as a potential 11th hour witness in president’s impeachment trial, complicating the White House’s bid for a speedy acquittal. Senators were poised to question the president’s accusers and his lawyers for the first time later in the day as […]
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The Foreign Office on Wednesday rejected Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “belligerent rhetoric” against Pakistan, stating that his recent remarks were a “reflection of India’s incurable obsession with Pakistan”. In a statement released today, the FO in response to Modi’s remarks from yesterday urged the international community to “take cognisance of Indian leadership’s continuing belligerent […]
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan the “slap of the century” on Tuesday as thousands of Palestinians held protests in Gaza and the West Bank. Hamas said it would confront Trump’s “aggressive” proposals and accused him of talking “nonsense” about Jerusalem. Confounding some predictions, Trump’s plan proposed a “two-state” solution […]
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A Pakistani man arrested earlier this month in Islamabad over the 2005 killing of a British woman police officer does not want to be extradited to Britain and is asking that he be tried in his home country, his lawyer said on Wednesday. The 71-year-old suspect, Piran Ditta Khan, appeared before a court in the […]
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Pakistan on Wednesday backed Palestine’s demand for making Jerusalem as the capital of its independent state on the basis of pre-1967 borders, a statement released by the Foreign Office said. The announcement comes a day after US President Donald Trump presented his Middle East plan as a solution to one of the world’s longest-running conflicts. The plan […]
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Deaths from a new viral disease that is causing mounting global concern rose by 25 to at least 106 in China on Tuesday as the United States and other governments prepared to fly their citizens out of the locked-down city at centre of the outbreak. The total includes the first death in Beijing, the Chinese […]
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A correspondent for National Public Radio in the United States has been excluded from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s plane for a trip this week, after a tense exchange between him and another NPR journalist. The association that represents correspondents covering the State Department reported on Monday that Pompeo, the top US diplomat, had removed NPR’s Michele Kelemen from his trip […]
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Qatar’s ruler has appointed a new prime minister, the office of Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said on Tuesday, choosing a close associate for an influential role that seeks to ensure the emir’s writ runs throughout the Gulf State’s administration. Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdelaziz Al Thani will take on the role […]
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