NIEUW BEIJERLAND: Dutch police on Sunday said six people were killed and seven others hurt after a truck ran off the top of a dike road and ploughed into revellers at a neighbourhood barbecue. The accident happened around 6pm on Saturday when the Spanish-registered lorry went off the road in the village of Nieuw-Beijerland, 30 […]
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KATHMANDU: Nepal has asked India to halt its recruitment of Gurkhas into the Indian army under a new scheme for shorter military contracts until it was clear what would happen to them when they retired, an aide to the prime minister said on Monday. An agreement between London, New Delhi and Kathmandu after India’s independence […]
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Kathua/Jammu, Aug 29: Three more Congress leaders, including former deputy speaker Gulam Hyder Malik, announced their resignation from the party on Monday in support of veteran politician Ghulam Nabi Azad. Azad, 73, a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, ended his five-decade association with the Congress on Friday, terming the party comprehensively destroyed and […]
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Türkiye has accused Greece of continued “hostile acts” against the Turkish jets, this time by activating the Russian-made S-300 air defense system based on Crete Island. In earlier incidents in the past week, the Greek jetfighters twice harassed the Turkish F-16s carrying out NATO missions over the eastern Mediterranean and Aegean. Sources from the Defense […]
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Islamabad:: A five-judge larger bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has been constituted to proceed against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief and former prime minister Imran Khan on the charge of contempt of court for ‘intimidating a female judge’. The bench headed by IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah comprises Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, Justice Miangul […]
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LONDON: Liz Truss has emerged as the clear favourite to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the ruling Conservative party and UK prime minister, using her political experience to pull ahead of challenger Rishi Sunak. Sunak helped to spark the contest after resigning in opposition to a series of government scandals, prompting others to follow […]
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Sukkur; August 28 (ANI): The Sukkur district police claimed to have registered FIRs on terrorism charges against over 100 unidentified persons for allegedly attacking police personnel, pelting vehicles with stones, damaging public and private property, and inciting flood victims outside a relief camp during the visit of the prime minister and foreign minister here on […]
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TORONTO: After creating strong waves in the United Kingdom in November 2021, the Khalistan Referendum — a community-sponsored plebiscite of an international advocacy group, Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) — is now rocking Canadian politics where the voting is going to start on September 18. Khalistan Referendum campaign — in which Sikhs are asked to answer […]
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Tehran, Iran – Iran says its review of the United States’s response to a European-Union drafted text to restore their 2015 nuclear deal will take several more days as Qatar continues to mediate between the sides. Reviewing the US response at expert levels is ongoing and will take “at least” until the end of the […]
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The UN has called for an immediate stop to hostilities in Libya following a day of deadly clashes between political factions in the capital, Tripoli. At least 32 people were killed and dozens more wounded during the fighting, the health ministry said. Among the dead was young comedian Mustafa Baraka, an official said. Libya has […]
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