Category: WORLD NEWS

Kathmandu, Jun 24 (DIN NEWS) Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli today said his visit to China has further enhanced the friendship and bilateral cooperation between the two countries in wide-ranging areas including cross-border rail and road connectivity. Speaking to journalists upon his arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu after a five-day visit to China, Oli said the agreements on railways, energy, transportation, infrastructure development, tourism, among others, have prepared the outline for long-term economic assistance, the Kathmandu Post reported. The prime minister said the agreement signed by Nepal…

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Abu Dhabi, Jun 23 (DIN NEWS) The United Arab Emirates, whose troops have played a major role in a Yemeni government offensive against the port city of Hodeida, said today that it was ready to support diplomatic efforts to secure a rebel withdrawal. But it said the pullout must be unconditional and from the whole city not just its vital docks, the entry point for three-quarters of Yemen’s imports. “The coalition will achieve its goal, which is to free the city, including the port,” UAE minister of state for foreign…

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Islamabad, Jun 23 (DIN NEWS) A day after resigning as the chairman of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), Pakistan’s former military ruler and dictator Pervez Musharraf today said he has not quit politics. Musharraf, 74, yesterday sent his resignation as chairman of the APML party to the Election Commission of Pakistan, days after the Supreme Court barred him from contesting in the July 25 general elections. The apex court had withdrawn an interim relief given to Musharraf to allow him to submit his nomination papers as he failed to…

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Geneva, June 22 (DIN NEWS) The UN today acknowledged Washington’s decision to stop separating migrant families at the US-Mexico border but insisted that detaining children with their parents was not the solution. “Children should never be detained for reasons related to their or their parents’ migration status,” UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva. “It is never in the best interest of the child for them to be detained,” she said. Her comments came two days after US President Donald Trump, in a stunning about-face, ordered an…

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Washington, Jun 22 (DIN NEWS) President Donald Trump today told his fellow Republicans in Congress to “stop wasting their time” on immigration legislation until after November, dismissing his party’s struggle to surmount internal divisions. Trump’s tweets come just days after he insisted Congress needed to act to resolve the problems at the US-Mexico border. But stubborn differences between conservative and more moderate Republicans in the House have stalled immigration legislation on Capitol Hill, with a vote on a compromise measure delayed until next week. Trump said today that even if…

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Kabul, Jun 21 (DIN NEWS) The Taliban killed eight police in two separate attacks in Afghanistan today, officials said. Arif Noori, a spokesman for the governor of the southern Ghazni province, says six police were killed and four were wounded in an attack on security posts today. He says at least seven insurgents were killed in the hours-long gunbattle. In the northern Baghlan province, the Taliban killed two police and wounded another three, according to police spokesman Zabiullah Shuja. No one immediately claimed either attack. The Taliban have seized several…

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Karachi, Jun 21 (DIN NEWS) Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf today said that he was all set to return to the country but the Supreme Court order for his arrest forced him to change his mind. Musharraf , 74, who has been in exile in Dubai and London since 2016 is facing several cases in the Supreme and High Courts, including one for treason for allegedly subverting the constitution and the Supreme Court earlier this month asked him to return to Pakistan if he wanted to contest the General…

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Tehran, June 20 (DIN NEWS) An Iranian defence lawyer has been arrested after claiming a man executed this week for killing three policemen was innocent, Iran’s Fars news agency said today. Zeinab Taheri was taken into custody after an arrest warrant was issued against her for making “false statements” and because of “her lies propagated online claiming (the defendant) was not guilty,” the conservative-linked agency said. It did not specify the date of her arrest. “The female lawyer who recently claimed to be the defendant’s lawyer and who has gone…

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London, Jun 20 (DIN NEWS) British Prime Minister Theresa May today said images from the United States of migrant children kept in cages were “deeply disturbing” and that she would press President Donald Trump on the issue. “On what we have seen in the United States, pictures of children being held in what appear to be cages are deeply disturbing… this is wrong,” she told MPs. May said she would raise the issue with Trump when the pair meet in Britain next month. “When we disagree with the United States…

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Paris, Jun 19 (DIN NEWS) India and France are working to shape a strong development partnership, including in the fields of science and technology, clean energy and infrastructure, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said as she met the country’s top leadership and discussed issues of mutual interest from a strategic perspective. Swaraj, who arrived here from Rome yesterday on the second leg of her four-nation tour, called on French President Emmanuel Macron and discussed follow up to the understandings reached during his visit to India in March this year.…

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