Category: WORLD NEWS

Kabul, May 29 (DIN NEWS) Afghan forces mistakenly killed nine people, most of them civilians, during raid on a house in eastern Nangarhar province which has been a base for the Islamic State group and other militants, officials said today. The raid, which took place late last night in Chaparhar district, also wounded eight other civilians, said provincial governor Hayatullah Hayat. A local police commander was among the dead, he added. According to the governor, gunfire had been coming from the house that was raided but the casualties were identified as…

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Kathmandu, May 29 (DIN NEWS) Nepal honoured several Sherpa guides for their Everest successes on the anniversary today of the first conquest of the world’s highest peak. Government minister Bina Magar, herself an Everest climber, honoured the guides at a ceremony held every year on the date in 1953 that New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his guide Tenzing Norgay first set foot on the summit of the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) mountain. Those honoured included Kami Rita, who just climbed the mountain for a record 22nd time. He said last week when he…

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Moscow, May 28 (DIN NEWS) Russian prosecutors have asked a Moscow court to find a Ukrainian journalist guilty of espionage and jail him for 14 years, his defence lawyer said today. Journalist Roman Sushchenko — who worked for Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform since 2002 — was detained in Russia in 2016 and Russia’s FSB security agency accused him of serving in Ukrainian military intelligence and gathering state secrets. Pro-Western Kiev blasted the allegations against Sushchenko at the time of his detention, portraying them as the latest aggressive move in the…

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Beijing, May 28 (DIN NEWS) China has voiced “strong dissatisfaction” after two US warships sailed by an island claimed by Beijing in the disputed South China Sea, adding to simmering tensions in the strategic waterway. The foreign ministry issued a statement expressing “resolute opposition” to the US sail-by of the territory in the disputed Paracel Island chain on Sunday. The US military conducts what it calls “freedom of navigation” voyages in the South China Sea to contest Beijing’s assertion of territorial rights in the area, although the US has no claims…

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Lahore, May 27 (DIN NEWS) Six militants, involved in the killing of a Brigadier of Pakistan’s spy agency ISI and several deadly blasts, were shot dead today during an encounter with the security forces in Punjab, a media report said. According to the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), the suspects were also involved in the blast near the residence-cum-office of Punjab province Chief Minister Shahbaz Shari last year that claimed 26 lives including eight policemen. The CTD had tracked the militants near Gujrat in Punjab where a gunbattle broke out between them,…

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Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh), May 27 (DIN NEWS) Marooned on a dusty slope in the world’s largest refugee camp, Osiur Rahman looked to the hill where a Rohingya girl was buried in a landslide just days earlier and contemplated his chances should the earth give way beneath his feet. “Our families would be killed. There are children everywhere around here. We constantly fear that rain could trigger a landslide,” the 53-year-old told DIN NEWS on the steep embankment where he lives with nine family members in a bamboo shack. For the…

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Islamabad, May 26 (DIN NEWS) Pakistan has rejected US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s accusation that American diplomats were treated badly by authorities in Islamabad, saying it has not received any specific complaint about it. Pompeo during a briefing to the US lawmakers had raised concerns over the “bad treatment” meted out to US diplomats in Pakistan. Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Faisal told the media yesterday that it had not received any specific complaints from the US side after establishment of the mechanism to resolve the issue on treatment…

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Islamabad, May 26 (DIN NEWS) Pakistan’s powerful army has summoned former ISI chief Asad Durrani to seek his explanation over a book he co-authored with India’s ex-spy chief AS Dulat, accusing him of ‘violating’ the military code of conduct. Lieutenant General (retd) Durrani, who headed the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from August 1990 till March 1992, along with Dulat has written “The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace”. The book was released on Wednesday. The Pakistan Army in a statement said that Durrani was being called to…

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Islamabad, May 25 (DIN NEWS) Pakistan’s ousted premier Nawaz Sharif today demanded an urgent meeting of the high-powered National Security Committee (NSC) to discuss the content of a book co-authored by former spy chiefs of Pakistan and India. Lieutenant General (retd) Asad Durrani, who headed the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from August 1990 till March 1992, along with Indian former RAW chief AS Dulat has written “The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace”. The book was released on Wednesday. Sharif demanded that whatever Durrani wrote in the…

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Washington, May 25 (DIN NEWS) US President Donald Trump today said that his administration is now talking with the North Koreans and hinted that the summit with Kim Jong-un could still go ahead on June 12, a day after he cancelled it. “We’ll see what happens. We are talking to them now,” Trump said at the White House before boarding Marine One for a commencement address in Annapolis. “They very much want to do it. We’d like to do it. We will see what happens,” he said. Trump appeared to…

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