Category: WORLD NEWS

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Pakistan summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner J P Singh today for the second time in two days over the alleged “unprovoked ceasefire violations” by the Indian forces that killed Pakistani citizens. Director General (South Asia & SAARC) Mohammad Faisal summoned Singh for “unprovoked ceasefire violations by the Indian occupation forces along the Working Boundary on 19th January in Sialkot Sector,” the Foreign Office said. He said the firing resulted in the death of a 24-year-old civilian and injured nine others in village Harpal. Yesterday, Singh was summoned after two women…

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China’s Communist Party proposed today to engrave President Xi Jinping’s guiding philosophy in the country’s constitution, further cementing his status as its most powerful leader in decades. Xi’s eponymous “thought” was already enshrined in the Communist Party constitution at a major congress in October, elevating him to the same status as modern China’s founder Mao Zedong. The architect of China’s economic reforms, Deng Xiaoping, is the only other leader whose name appears alongside his guiding principle in both the state and party constitutions. The party’s Central Committee proposed at a…

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A Malaysia Airlines flight was forced to divert to the Australian outback town of Alice Springs today for “technical reasons” in a scare one passenger described as “hell”. Flight MH122 was heading from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur when Australian reports said one its engines shut down. It landed safely in the desert town of Alice Springs. “Malaysia Airlines’ flight MH122 from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur has been diverted to Alice Springs due to technical reasons,” the airline said in a statement. “The A330-300 aircraft safely landed in Alice Springs airport.”…

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Donald Trump today insisted that his view on building a wall along US-Mexico border has not changed and Mexico would pay for it “directly or indirectly”, contradicting remarks by his chief of staff that the president’s opinion on the barrier had “evolved”. Trump’s comments came after Retired General John Kelly told members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus yesterday that parts of the border do not need a wall — and that Trump did not know that when making campaign promises. He said that the president has evolved in his thinking…

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French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May will announce a new treaty on how to handle migrants hoping to head to Britain, the French presidency said today. The treaty, set to be announced at a summit in London on Thursday, will “complete the Le Touquet accord”, Macron’s office said in reference to a 2003 deal that effectively put Britain’s border in northern France. The details are “still being finalised”, the French presidency said, but the treaty will include measures on how to manage unaccompanied minors, and Britain…

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US President Donald Trump has declared ‘The New York Times’ as the winner of the ‘Fake News Award’. Others in Trump’s unique award were ‘ABC News’, ‘CNN’, ‘Time’ and ‘The Washington Post’. Trump announced the award by a tweet yesterday. The website GOP.Com — where the winners were listed — crashed soon after Trump announced his Fake News Awards. “2017 was a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news. Studies have shown that over 90 per cent of the media’s coverage of President Trump is…

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Belgian rescuers found two dead bodies today at the site of a powerful suspected gas explosion in the port city of Antwerp that also injured 14 people, police said. The blast late last night, which police say is not linked to terrorism, collapsed or severely damaged several buildings in the Paardenmarkt area of central Antwerp, a Dutch-speaking city in northern Belgium. “Police confirm two more victims found under the rubble, both deceased. The victims have not yet been identified,” Antwerp police said on Twitter. Several people were pulled alive from…

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today vowed Turkey would soon begin an operation against towns in Syria controlled by Kurdish militia, calling the areas “nests” of terror. The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia controls key Syrian northern towns including Manbij and Afrin and is an ally of the US but Ankara accuses the group of being a terror organisation. “Tomorrow, (or) the day after, (or) within a short period, we will get rid of terror nests one-by-one in Syria starting with Afrin and Manbij” in northern Syria, Erdogan promised in…

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The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007, saying it killed her as she allegedly planned to collaborate with the US against the ‘mujahideen’ if she returned to power, says a book by the banned terror group. “The return of Benazir Bhutto was planned at the behest of the Americans as they had given her a plan against the ‘Mujahideed-e-Islam’. Baitullah had received information of the plan,” the book claimed, in a reference to slain Pakistani Taliban founder Baitullah Mehsud. The…

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