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DESPARDES — China’s ambassador to Israel was found dead in his home in a Tel Aviv suburb on Sunday morning, an Israeli police spokesman said. He did not comment on
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DESPARDES — India should speak with the Taliban if it feels that it will help the peace process, Pakistan’s envoy to Washington said on Saturday, after a series of attacks
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DESPARDES — Kashmir is a nuclear flashpoint as many observers say and it stands on the verge of a war between the nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan who have already
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Turkey on Tuesday accused Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, France and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of seeking to form an alliance of evil after these countries issued a joint declaration denouncing
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“Today’s attacks in Afghanistan-given their location and targeting-have all the hallmarks of ISIS-K” Gunmen attacked a hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday where the international humanitarian organization Doctors
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“The more broad-based agreement intra-Afghanistan dialogue the better it is”: Khan Hasham Bin Saddiq, President of Islamabad-based IPRI think tank. DESPARDES — The US has asked Pakistan to use its
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DESPARDES — Military action against Pakistan is PM Modi’s “Go To” option, a senior Pakistani Defense official tells DesPardes. The high ranking official’s comment dovetails Prime Minister Imran Khan’s latest
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DESPARDES — “It all happened in a blur. One moment we were relaxing at home, the next, scrambling for our lives,” recalled a school teacher at a private school in
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Malaysian authorities are rounding up undocumented migrants as part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus, officials said, after hundreds of migrants and refugees were detained in the capital
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DESPARDES — An Indian-Muslim from Kerala was left aghast — and is still upset — after his prospective employer in Dubai wrote back chiding him for looking for work and
SoDATA — Saudi Binladin Group (SBG) has hired an investment bank to advise on its $15 billion debt rescheduling plan. Bloomberg reported, citing a statement from Binladin International Holding Group,
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There have been 131 deaths and 4,689 infections in the last 47 days; The government has announced a US$ 11.60-billion relief/stimulus package UNB — Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on
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