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Portugal's Foreign Ministry has confirmed the release of the seven crew members. It stated that five Indians, one Estonian and one Filipino were released by Iran.
International
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India and the Maldives should not allow social media to further disrupt already fractious ties. By suspending the three ministers Male has helped to soothe tempers.
Israel was met with a major setback after the United States confirmed it had paused a shipment of weapons to Tel Aviv and threatened to withhold more if Israel goes ahead with its plan to attack Rafah.
Disagreements over terms of a ceasefire and the Hamas attack on Kerem Shalom Crossing have triggered Israel’s heavy offensive on Rafah which is feared to intensify.
The missing Indian student's family from Hyderabad has said the family had informed both the police and the US Embassy.
Pakistan's top civil and military leadership Thursday strongly condemned the unprecedented violence by the supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan on May 9 last year and vowed not to allow its "executors" to get away with their acts which were aimed at establishing an "individual's dictatorship".
In response to the United States' warning of an arms holdup, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that if need be, Israel will "stand alone".
Argentina's powerful unions — backed by Argentina's left-leaning Peronist parties that have dominated national politics for decades — have led the pushback to Milei's policies on the streets and in the courts in recent months.
The police said that 60 mercenaries are believed to be in Russia and another 23 in Ukraine.
He was 71. Lawyer Guillermina McDonald told The Associated Press in a phone message that Fonseca died late Wednesday.
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India and the Maldives should not allow social media to further disrupt already fractious ties. By suspending the three ministers Male has helped to soothe tempers.
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Israel was met with a major setback after the United States confirmed it had paused a shipment of weapons to Tel Aviv and threatened to withhold more if Israel goes ahead with its plan to attack Rafah.
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Disagreements over terms of a ceasefire and the Hamas attack on Kerem Shalom Crossing have triggered Israel’s heavy offensive on Rafah which is feared to intensify.
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The missing Indian student's family from Hyderabad has said the family had informed both the police and the US Embassy.
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Pakistan's top civil and military leadership Thursday strongly condemned the unprecedented violence by the supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan on May 9 last year and vowed not to allow its "executors" to get away with their acts which were aimed at establishing an "individual's dictatorship".
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In response to the United States' warning of an arms holdup, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that if need be, Israel will "stand alone".
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Argentina's powerful unions — backed by Argentina's left-leaning Peronist parties that have dominated national politics for decades — have led the pushback to Milei's policies on the streets and in the courts in recent months.
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The police said that 60 mercenaries are believed to be in Russia and another 23 in Ukraine.
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He was 71. Lawyer Guillermina McDonald told The Associated Press in a phone message that Fonseca died late Wednesday.
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The US vessel, loaded with much needed humanitarian assistance, departed from the Larnaca port with the aim of transferring as much aid to Gaza as possible through the maritime corridor, said Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos.
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Moosa Zameer is New Delhi in the first high-level trip from Male after the Maldives' pro-China president Mohamed Muizzu assumed office six months ago.
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The aircraft crashed around 11 am (local time) into the Karnaphuli River and landed near the Boat Club in Patenga, said Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) Port Zone Deputy Commissioner Shakila Sultana.
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As per the Australian government, this decision has been made not only in order to curb their record migration rate but to also reduce the risks of fraudulent recruitment and student exploitation.
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Saadia Mosbah, who is Black, was taken into custody and her home was searched as part of an investigation into the funding for the Mnemty association she runs.
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The claims by Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree come as the tempo of the rebel attacks have waned in recent weeks as they've been targeted by repeated airstrikes launched by a U.S.-led coalition warship in waterways crucial to international trade.
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Navy Senior Capt. Li Xi, spokesman for the Eastern Theater Command, accused the U.S. of having 'publicly hyped the passage of the USS Halsey on Wednesday. In a statement, Li said the command, which oversees operations around the strait, 'organized naval and air forces to monitor' the ship's transit and handle matters 'in accordance with laws and regulations.'
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The crash occurred at 7:40 a.m. outside the city of Qingtongxia, according to the state-owned Ningxia Daily. The injured people were in stable condition at a hospital.
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Abdul Mateen Qani, a spokesman for the Taliban's interior ministry, said the bomb which was 'attached to a motorcycle, exploded in Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan province,' while a convoy of security forces was passing through, adding that five other officers were wounded.
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Concern for the well-being of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there, Biden, in an interview with CNN, said the US was still committed to Israel's defense and would supply Iron Dome rocket interceptors and other defensive arms, but that if Israel goes into Rafah, “we're not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells used.”
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Bomb In Northeastern Afghanistan kills 3 Officers Who Were Part Of Convoy Handling Poppy Eradication
Qani said the officers were on their way to destroy poppy crops in the area. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
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The Kerem Shalom crossing between Gaza and Israel was closed over the weekend after a Hamas rocket attack killed four Israeli soldiers nearby, and on Tuesday, an Israeli tank brigade seized the nearby Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, forcing its closure.
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Punjab police claimed they have arrested over 50 lawyers, soon after which the Pakistan Bar Council gave a countrywide strike call on Thursday against alleged Punjab police brutality.
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After the war broke out on October 7, 2023, Saudi Arabia put a halt to this deal and stated that the only way it would recognize Israel would be if it paves the way for a two-state solution and the creation of an independent Palestinian State.
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America is the only power that can persuade Israel to stop a ground invasion of Rafah. A refusal to send US arms will force Netanyahu to re-think his current stand. But will Biden bite the bullet?
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The bilateral ties came under severe strain after Muizzu insisted on the withdrawal of nearly 90 Indian military personnel operating three aviation platforms in the island nation.
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The court on Wednesday set trial dates for August and September 2024 after Iswaran argued that both sets of charges be heard together because they share similar features, The Straits Times newspaper reported
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Current satellite images, analyzed by The Associated Press, confirm that the two ships remained there on Wednesday, more than five months since they initially appeared.
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Rescuers said some of the survivors had used their cell phones while trapped under the debris to contact family members and that had helped emergency responders find them.
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Maj. Gen. Ahmad Sharif, a spokesman for Pakistan's army, has said that four men behind the March 26 attack in Bisham, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, had been arrested.
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Following the arrest of three Indians in connection to the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly has backed the allegations against the Indian government raised in September 2023.
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A floral tribute at the funeral of a senior official on Monday suggests Wei, 70, could be politically safe, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.
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The Chinese and Australians lodged official protests and blamed each other for a Chinese warplane's extraordinary use of flares against an Australian navy helicopter Saturday.
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Italian President Sergio Mattarella said Italy, which now heads the G7 meetings, and many international partners have come to Ukraine's defense to support the principle that solidarity must be given to nations attacked by acts that violate international law and the U.N. Charter.
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Indian High Commissioner to Canada Sanjay Kumar Verma said this on Tuesday in his first public remarks since three Indian nationals accused of killing Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year were arrested and produced before a court by Canadian police.
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India Received Over $111 Billion In Remittances In 2022, First Country To Ever Reach That Figure: UN
The UN report said Mexico was the second-largest remittance recipient in 2022, a position it also held in 2021 after overtaking China, which historically had been the second-biggest recipient after India.
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Kim Ki Nam, a North Korean propaganda chief, was one of the seven senior officials who joined Kim Jong Un in accompanying the hearse of the late leader Kim Jong Il following his death in 2011.
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It was also the eleventh consecutive month of record-high temperatures, a result of the combined effect of now weakening El Nino and human-caused climate change, the European Union's climate agency Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said.
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Terming the move 'purely coincidental', AstraZeneca asserted that the decision to withdraw the Covid-19 vaccine was not linked to its admission that it can cause TTS - Thrombosis Thrombocytopenia Syndrome. Instead, the move came due to a 'surplus of available updated vaccines' since the pandemic which has led to a decline in demand for AstraZeneca's vaccine Vaxzevria.
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The United Nations (UN) warned of a potential collapse of the flow of aid to Palestinians from the closure of the Rafah crossing from Egypt and the other main crossing into Gaza, Kerem Shalom, from Israel, at a time when UN officials say northern Gaza is experiencing “full-blown famine.”
