A total of 76 terrorists, including 55 foreigners, were neutralised, 291 terrorist associates arrested and 201 overground workers booked under the Public Safety Act in Jammu and Kashmir this year, Director General of Police R R Swain said on Saturday.Swain further said that only 31 local terrorists an all time low – are left in […]
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Romania and Bulgaria have struck an agreement with Austria to partially join Europe’s borderless Schengen travel zone by March 2024, Bucharest and Sofia have confirmed.The political agreement will allow Romania and Bulgaria to join the Schengen zone by air and sea only, with further negotiations to follow on land borders, the Romanian interior ministry said […]
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Russia’s Defence Ministry said its anti-aircraft units had destroyed 13 Ukrainian rockets over the southern Belgorod region on Friday and the regional governor said one person had been killed and four injured in the incidents.A ministry statement said units in Belgorod region had thwarted “an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist […]
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec – McDonald’s Malaysia has sued a movement promoting boycotts against Israel for “false and defamatory statements” that it says hurt its business, seeking damages amounting to 6 million ringgit ($1.31 million).Malaysia, a majority-Muslim country, is a staunch supporter of the Palestinians, and some Western fast-food brands in the country, as in some […]
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KARACHI: Pakistan’s election body on Saturday rejected former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s nomination to contest the 2024 national elections, the Election Commission body said.The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief filed his papers to contest from his hometown Mianwali.Khan was jailed this year in August in the cipher case, which involved an alleged violation of the Official […]
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CAIRO/GAZA, Dec – Israeli tanks pushed deeper into central and southern Gaza on Saturday under heavy air and artillery fire, residents said, pressing a deadly offensive that has razed much of the enclave and that Israel has said may last months more.Fighting was focused in al-Bureij, Nuseirat, Maghazi and Khan Younis, backed by intensive air […]
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BEIJING, Dec – A sweeping purge of Chinese generals has weakened the People’s Liberation Army, exposing deep-rooted corruption that could take more time to fix and slow Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s military modernization drive amid geopolitical tensions, analysts say.China’s top lawmakers ousted nine senior military officers from the national legislative body on Friday, state media […]
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After more than a decade into the Chinese financed CPEC which was hailed as a “game-changer”, nothing has significantly changed in Pakistan’s economic landscape. This surely is a time to revisit the model of development adopted for the country. The federation of Pakistan has hitherto adopted a faulty model of development for Gwadar. What the […]
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South Africa on Friday filed an application instituting proceedings against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), requesting the court to indicate provisional measures The application filed “concerning alleged violations by Israel of its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in relation to Palestinians in the […]
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At least 28 people have been killed in what Ukraine says is Russia’s biggest missile bombardment of the war so far. Dozens more people were wounded as Russia hit Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Lviv in the early hours of Friday morning. Russia “used nearly every type of weapon in its arsenal”, with homes and […]
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