NEW YORK: An Indian government official directed an unsuccessful plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist on US soil, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday, in announcing charges against a man accused of orchestrating the attempted murder. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Nikhil Gupta, 52, worked with the Indian government employee, whose responsibilities included security […]
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A two-state solution would be the answer to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, officials of Arab states and the European Union agreed at a meeting in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday. They said the Palestinian Authority, rather than Hamas, should rule Gaza. European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said during the meeting in Barcelona that all EU […]
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Russia is reported to be preparing to introduce laws that would require foreign visitors to sign a “loyalty agreement”. The interior ministry is preparing the legislation that would bar visitors from criticising Russian policy or discrediting Soviet history. It would also require that they respect traditional Russian family values, culture and environment, state news agency […]
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ISLAMABAD – The head of the Afghan diplomatic mission in Pakistan was summoned on Tuesday by the Foreign Office (FO) and conveyed four demands including extradition of Hafiz Gul Bahadur, whose group carried out the recent terrorist attack in Bannu. Two civilians had lost their lives while 10 others, including three security forces personnel, were […]
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Israel says it has carried out a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, and killed “two senior terrorists”. Separately, the Palestinian Authority says two children were also killed by gunfire in Jenin. The fresh violence comes on the sixth day of a truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza – […]
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Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor Usman Awan on Wednesday informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that 22 allegedly missing Baloch students had been recovered while the whereabouts of 28 others were still unknown. The revelation was made as IHC’s Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani resumed hearing a petition regarding the implementation of the recommendations of […]
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New Delhi, November 29: The US government has offered the Stryker armoured fighting vehicle’s air defence system version which can be deployed in high altitude areas to take out enemy aircraft to the Indian military. “The Americans have offered the Stryker armoured fighting vehicles equipped with air defence systems to the Indian military. They have […]
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A prominent New York-based pro-Khalistan leader has denounced India for reportedly plotting to kill him on U.S. soil, saying the move was “a challenge to American sovereignty” with the hope that the Biden administration will respond to it. “The attempted assassination plot that has been uncovered by the FT (Financial Times), and to which the […]
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The European Commission is seeking to toughen penalties for human traffickers as the bloc struggles to bring down the number of migrants lured in by networks of smugglers. In the first ten months of 2023, the European Union saw nearly 331,000 irregular border crossings, with the Central Mediterranean route accounting for the vast majority of […]
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The foreign ministers of three Baltic states have announced that they will boycott a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was invited to the event. In a statement on Tuesday, the officials from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania said that a decision to invite Lavrov […]
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