Category: WORLD NEWS

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today left for Uganda after concluding his two-day visit to Rwanda during which the two countries signed a defence cooperation agreement and India extended a USD 200 million lines of credit to the East African country for its economic development. “I thank the wonderful people of Rwanda for their warmth and affection. This visit adds tremendous strength to closer economic and cultural relations between India and Rwanda,” Modi tweeted just before his departure. Prime Minister Modi arrived here yesterday on the first leg of his three-nation…

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Jerusalem, Jul 23 (DIN NEWS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today praised President Donald Trump’s “tough stand” against Iran after the US leader issued a stark warning to the Islamic republic. “I would like to praise the tough stand expressed yesterday by President Trump and Secretary of State (Mike) Pompeo against the aggression of the Iranian regime,” Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting. “Over the years, this regime has been spoiled by the major powers and it is good to see that the US is changing this…

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Dhaka, Jul 23 (DIN NEWS) Bangladesh’s High Court today directed a lower court to hear and dispose of a bail petition filed by former prime minister and opposition BNP chief Khaleda Zia by July 26 in an arson case in which she is named as an accused, according to a media report. Eight people were killed and 20 others were injured when unknown assailants hurled a petrol bomb at the bus in Comilla’s Chouddagram upazila on February 2, 2015, during anti-government agitation. The court bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and…

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Washington, Jul 22 (DIN NEWS) The FBI believed that a former Trump campaign advisor had ties to Russia as it sought to influence the 2016 US presidential election, a top secret documents released to US news organisations has revealed. The October, 2016 application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court named Carter Page, a former foreign policy advisor to the campaign of Donald Trump, according to the documents which The New York Times published. The newspaper, along with USA Today and others, filed Freedom of Information Act lawsuits to obtain the…

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Tehran, Jul 22 (DIN NEWS) Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani today warned the United States not to “play with the lion’s tail”, saying that conflict with Iran would be the “mother of all wars”. Addressing his US counterpart Donald Trump, Rouhani said: “You declare war and then you speak of wanting to support the Iranian people. “You cannot provoke the Iranian people against their own security and interests,” he said in a televised speech at a gathering of Iranian diplomats in Tehran. Rouhani repeated his warning that Iran could shut down…

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Islamabad, Jul 21 (DIN NEWS) Lawyers for Pakistan’s jailed former premier Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and his son-in-law, today met them to discuss the appeal against their conviction. Sharif, 68, and his daughter Maryam, 44, were arrested in Lahore on July 13 on their arrival from London after an accountability court found them guilty over his family’s ownership of four luxury flats in London. They were later taken to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi. Both Sharif and Maryam have been sentenced by the court to 10 and seven years in prison,…

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Aspen (US), Jul 21 (DIN NEWS) China is waging a “quiet kind of cold war” against the United States, using all its resources to try to replace America as the leading power in the world, a top CIA expert on Asia has said. Beijing doesn’t want to go to war, he said, but the current communist government, under President Xi Jingping, is subtly working on multiple fronts to undermine the US in ways that are different than the more well-publicized activities being employed by Russia. “I would argue … that…

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Kabul, Jul 20 (DIN NEWS) A district governor in Afghanistan says Taliban fighters launched a wave of attacks in eastern Ghazni province, killing at least eight police and wounding seven others. Saeeb Khan Elham said today that insurgents launched a wave of attacks on compounds and police security posts in the Qarabagh district late the night before. He said government forces meant to reinforce the district were attacked in a Taliban ambush that included roadside mines and were unable to help. Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban, claimed responsibility for…

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United Nations, Jul 20 (DIN NEWS) India is “pushing ahead” on its national efforts to meet Sustainable Devolvement Goals by undertaking one of the highest rates of renewable energy expansion and building 11 million homes under the world’s largest affordable housing programme, India’s top envoy to the UN Syed Akbaruddin has said. Speaking at the ‘High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development’ yesterday, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN said India was looking forward to engaging constructively in global efforts for the achievement of the goals encapsulated in the 2030…

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Lahore, Jul 19 (DIN NEWS) Jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam may be shifted from the high-security Adiala jail to Sihala Rest House, which has been converted into a sub-jail in the suburbs of Islamabad after some prisoners started chanting slogans against him this morning, prison authorities said. Sharif, 68, and his daughter Maryam, 44, were arrested in Lahore on July 13 on their arrival from London after an accountability court found them guilty over his family’s ownership of four luxury flats in London. They were…

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