WHITE HOUSE: International and domestic pressure is mounting on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to establish a strategic endgame for the Israel-Hamas war that would tie Israeli military gains to a political solution for the Palestinian enclave. In his harshest public rebuke yet to Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant gave televised remarks Wednesday, urging […]
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Russia has declared The United Kingdom’s defence attache persona non grata and gave the diplomat a week to leave the country in response to London expelling the Russian defence attache earlier this month over spying allegations. Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that it summoned a representative of the British Embassy in […]
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India’s main opposition party on Thursday condemned Prime Minister Narendra Modi for anti-Muslim comments in election campaign speeches that have heightened concerns over sectarian tensions in the world’s biggest democracy. Modi remains popular across much of India and his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is widely expected to win this general election when it concludes […]
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The Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani on Thursday summoned a report from the defence secretary on the alleged role of state intelligence agencies in the abduction of Kashmiri poet and journalist Ahmed Farhad Shah. Shah was allegedly abducted from his home a day ago. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan had called […]
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VIENNA; Newspaper Heute reports: Federal Chancellor Nehammer made a visit to Reumannplatz in Vienna-Favoriten on Wednesday and announced the measures taken as a complete success. Four weeks before the EU elections, the ÖVP is going on the offensive with edgy statements. “If you want to live in the caliphate, you have to leave Austria!” reads […]
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THE HAGUE: South Africa accused Israel Thursday at the top U.N. court of stepping up what it called a “genocide” in Gaza, urging the court to order a halt to Israel’s assault on Rafah. “South Africa had hoped, when we last appeared before this court, to halt this genocidal process to preserve Palestine and its […]
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed to constitute a high-level committee for consultation over matters related to Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project. Addressing the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet in Muzaffarabad today, he said the committee comprising senior officials from federal and AJK governments will finalize the short, mid and long term plans within next two weeks. […]
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Srinagar, May 16: Security forces on Thursday engaged a group of terrorists in a gunfight after they made an attempt to sneak into this side from across the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Quoting reliable sources, news agency Kashmir Scroll that the infiltration attempt was foiled in […]
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QUETTA: A government delegation on Wednesday failed to make a breakthrough in its talks with the protestors who have been staging a sit-in in Balochistan’s Chaman district for several months. Hundreds of local tribesmen and daily wage earners have been protesting against new visa and passport restrictions on people of the border town to cross […]
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Beijing: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in China on Thursday to meet with counterpart Xi Jinping as he seeks greater support from Beijing for his war effort in Ukraine and his isolated economy. This is Putin’s first trip abroad since his March re-election and the second in just over six months to China, an economic […]
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