Category: WORLD NEWS

Kabul, Jun 3 (DIN NEWS) Nearly half of Afghanistan’s children are not attending school because of worsening security, poverty and sex discrimination, according to a new UN report today. The number of children deprived of schooling is at its highest rate since 2002 — the year after the US-led ouster of the repressive Taliban regime, which had banned girls from the classroom. Girls remain more likely to miss out on a formal education, making up 60 percent of the 3.7 million children aged between seven and 17 not at school.…

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Dubai, Jun 3 (DIN NEWS) Authorities say Cyclone Mekunu killed at least 30 people when it barreled across Oman and Yemen last month. The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said in a statement that the majority of the fatalities happened on the Yemeni island of Socotra, where 20 were killed. The federation said in a statement Thursday another four were killed in Yemen’s al-Mahrah governorate, which borders Oman. In Oman, authorities had previously said at least six people were killed by the storm. Cyclone Mekunu…

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2ND June (DIN NEWS)After concluding his significant and successful three-nation visit to Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for India on Saturday. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said the prime minister’s visit added momentum to India’s Act East Policy. “After a significant and successful three-nation visit to Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, PM @narendramodi emplanes for India,” Kumar tweeted. During his three-day visit to Singapore, Modi held wide-ranging talks with his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong and delivered a keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue – Asia’s…

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2nd June (DIN NEWS)The former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi who came into power in 2013, after overturning the islamist predecessor Mohamed Morsi, has sworn in again for his second four-year term in office during a special parliament session broadcast live on state television. Initially Sisi was the sole candidate fighting in the election and had already received endorsements from more than 500 of the 596 MPs in Egypt’s parliament. But then, fifteen minutes prior to the deadline a candidate Mostafa Mousa from the centrist Ghad party suddenly emerged as a contender. Till…

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Islamabad, Jun 1 (DIN NEWS) Pakistan Supreme Court today struck down a high court order that disqualified former foreign minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif, making him eligible to contest in the upcoming elections. Asif on April 27 was disqualified by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for failing to disclose his employment in a UAE company and the monthly salary he was receiving. He challenged it in the Supreme Court earlier last month. A three-member bench headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandia overturned the decision of the Islamabad High Court to disqualify PML-N…

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Madrid, June 1 (DIN NEWS) Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy admitted defeat today ahead of a no-confidence vote which was certain to topple him, paving the way for a takeover by opposition leader Pedro Sanchez, his arch rival. “It’s been an honour — there is none bigger — to have been Spain’s prime minister,” he told parliament after congratulating Sanchez, with lawmakers from his conservative Popular Party (PP) giving him a standing ovation. Barring any last-minute U-turn, an absolute majority of lawmakers, among them Catalan separatists and Basque nationalists, will vote…

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Islamabad, May 31 (DIN NEWS) The Pakistan government today directed the interior ministry to block the national identity card (NIC) and passport of former dictator General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, a media report said today. Complying with a special court’s order, the government took the action to restrict the Dubai-based former president’s travel and certain facilities available to him as he failed to appear before the court in the high treason case against him. The National Data Base and Registration Authority (NADRA) and Immigration and Passport Directorate were directed to undertake the…

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Islamabad, May 31 (DIN NEWS) Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi today said polls should be held on time as neither the government nor the opposition are in favour of any delay in the upcoming general election. Abbasi made a farewell address during the 14th National Assembly’s final session just hours before the end of five-year term of the parliament at midnight tonight. Not even a day’s delay will be acceptable, he said referring to the election due to be held on July 25. He said free and fair elections were…

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Jakarta, May 30 (DIN NEWS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indonesian President Joko Widodo today flew kites as they inaugurated the first joint kite exhibition themed on India’s largest epics Ramayana and Mahabharata at the Jakarta’s National Monument here. Prime Minister Modi and President Widodo participated in the ‘Kite Exhibition’ which showcases the strong civilisational links between India and Indonesia. “The Leaders jointly unveiled a Kite Exhibition on the theme of Ramayana and Mahabharat,” Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement. “The Leaders welcomed the conclusion of the MoU between…

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Paris, May 30 (DIN NEWS) Security forces moved in on the biggest migrant camp in the French capital today where some 1,700 people lived in makeshift tents alongside a canal. The migrants would be housed temporarily at more than 20 sites across the Paris region while the authorities checked their identities, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said in a statement. CRS riot police were deployed at dawn, some arriving by boat, as the migrants emerged from their tents and waited patiently to be bussed away from the Port de la Villette camp…

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