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NEW DELHI, India – July 2 (ONLINE) India’s Congress party’s leader Rahul Gandhi has said the current ‘hostile, extremist’ atmosphere in India has been created by the ruling Bharatya Jannata Party (BJP). “It is not the person who made the comment, it is the Prime […]

Guwahati, India, July 1 (AFP/APP):Rescuers in India’s northeast have recovered 20 bodies from the site of a landslide that buried a railway construction camp, the army said Friday, after a second day of search efforts. Security forces and disaster relief teams are still racing to […]

Naypyidaw, Myanmar, July 1 (AFP/APP): Dialogue between Myanmar’s junta and ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to end the bloody crisis unleashed by the toppling of her government last year is “not impossible”, a junta spokesman told AFP on Friday. The Southeast Asian nation has […]

ISLAMABAD, Jul 01 (APP): Over 60,0000 Pakistanis and hundreds of thousands from across the globe offered Friday prayers at the Masjid-ul-Haram. The pilgrims were transported to Masjid-ul-Haram through shuttle service from their residential blocks in the morning to protect them from scorching heat, said a […]

Paris, July 1 (AFP/APP):The French-led Takuba task force of EU special forces has officially ceased operating in Mali, France announced Friday, ending a year-long anti-jihadist effort that soured after two military coups overthrew the civilian government. Takuba, operating with France’s Barkhane mission, was set up […]

New Delhi, July 01 (OLNLINE): At least eight people have died and another 50 are feared to have been killed after a massive landslide hit the 107 Territorial Army (TA) camp in Noney district in the Indian state of Manipur. Seven of those dead were […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, July 1 (AFP/APP): At least 17 people were killed and dozens wounded Friday in missile strikes on Ukraine’s Odessa region, a day after Russian troops abandoned positions on a strategic island in a major setback to the Kremlin’s invasion. The news came after […]

Stockholm, June 29 (AFP/APP): Sweden may have clinched a surprise deal with Turkey paving the way for its NATO membership, but Kurds and leftwing parties expressed concern Wednesday about the concessions made to Ankara. “We did not cave in to (Turkish President Recep Tayyip) Erdogan”, […]

Doha, June 29 (AFP/APP): Iran said it was “serious” about nuclear talks with the United States but that negotiations could end after just two days on Wednesday, as they try to revive a landmark deal. The indirect negotiations in Qatar are an attempt to reboot […]

Paris, June 29 (AFP/APP):A French court is to hand down verdicts Wednesday against 20 men accused over the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris, after a marathon 10-month trial that reopened the scars of modern France’s worst peacetime atrocity. One hundred and thirty people were […]