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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 […]

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 […]

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 – […]

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 […]

HELSINKI: Finland is ready to close its last border crossing with Russia if Moscow keeps pushing migrants across, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said Monday as migrants continued to make the treacherous journey through the Arctic. “We have closed all our border stations on the eastern border except for one and we are ready to close […]

A diplomatic row has broken out between the British and Greek governments over the Elgin Marbles. The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was due to meet Rishi Sunak in London, but No 10 cancelled the meeting at the last minute. A spokesman for the Greek prime minister told the BBC that he was “disappointed” the […]

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson denounced the leader of the far-right party propping up his government on Monday after he called for some mosques to be torn down. Sweden Democrats (SD) leader Jimmie Akesson called for some mosques to be seized and levelled during a speech at his annual party conference on Saturday. “We need […]

STATE DEPARTMENT: The United States is joining member states from NATO this week in renewing the alliance’s “steadfast commitment” to Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s aggression, according to a senior State Department official. Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to Brussels, where foreign ministers from NATO will gather from November 27 to […]

Caretaker Human Rights Minister Khalil George has said that a committee on the issue of missing persons is in the works, adding that the government was “thoroughly” looking into the matter. The human rights minister made the remarks in an interview with a private news channel. The remarks come days after the Islamabad High Court […]

ROME: Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Italy and around the world to condemn violence against women on Sunday. Italy has been shaken by the murder of a 22-year-old university student allegedly by her former boyfriend and around 50,000 people, according to the AGI news agency, demonstrated in Rome, where the Colosseum […]