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Pak envoy not invited in Rahul Gandhi's Iftar party

Pak envoy not invited in Rahul Gandhi's Iftar party

-- 2018-06-15 16:34:32

New Delhi:  In a departure from the past, the Congress did not invite the Pakistan High Commissioner to an Iftar party hosted by Rahul Gandhi that was attended by envoys of several Islamic nati...

Afghan president touts cease-fire in Eid address  

Afghan president touts cease-fire in Eid address  

-- 2018-06-15 16:04:19

Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Friday touted a three-day cease-fire with the Taliban in an address to the nation heralding the Islamic holiday of Eid-ul-Fitr, according to AP. The holiday...

Anti-money laundering symposium in Manila June 18

Anti-money laundering symposium in Manila June 18

FE Online Desk 2018-06-15 16:02:20

A symposium titled Inaugural Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) Manila Symposium on “Enhanced AML and Financial Crime Tools and Techniques” will be held on...

UN blames Israel  for Gaza violence

UN blames Israel for Gaza violence

-- 2018-06-14 22:35:59

The UN General Assembly approved a Palestinian-backed resolution on Wednesday blaming Israel for violence in Gaza and deploring its "excessive use of force," after narrowly rejecting a US demand to ad...

Residents choke as dust blankets Delhi

Residents choke as dust blankets Delhi

-- 2018-06-14 20:00:46

Residents of India's capital Delhi are battling high pollution levels and extreme temperatures due to an unusual dust haze covering the city, reports BBC. People have been complaining about breathing...

Australia PM condemns Nazi flag on military vehicle

Australia PM condemns Nazi flag on military vehicle

-- 2018-06-14 17:26:26

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has condemned a photo showing an Australian army vehicle flying a swastika flag in Afghanistan. The "completely and utterly unacceptable" incident took plac...

World escaped nuclear war threat, S Korea's Moon says

World escaped nuclear war threat, S Korea's Moon says

-- 2018-06-14 11:14:09

South Korean President Moon Jae-In said the world had escaped the threat of war after this week’s Singapore summit, echoing US President Donald Trump’s upbeat assessment of his meeting w...

Two Koreas hold military talks to reduce border tensions

Two Koreas hold military talks to reduce border tensions

-- 2018-06-14 10:59:13

The rival Koreas were holding rare high-level military talks Thursday to discuss reducing tensions across their heavily fortified border. It’s possible North Korean officials during the talks a...

Trump Kim summit: North Korean media celebrate meeting

Trump Kim summit: North Korean media celebrate meeting

-- 2018-06-13 19:37:31

North Korea has celebrated the Trump-Kim summit as a great win for the country, with state media reporting that the US intends to lift sanctions. The two leaders met on Tuesday, signing a brief decla...

Arab states launch attack on Yemen’s main port

Arab states launch attack on Yemen’s main port

-- 2018-06-13 15:56:55

A Saudi-led alliance of Arab states launched the largest assault of Yemen’s war on Wednesday with an attack on the country’s main port, aiming to bring the ruling Houthi movement to its kn...

Pakistan firing kills four BSF soldiers in Kashmir

Pakistan firing kills four BSF soldiers in Kashmir

-- 2018-06-13 13:35:17

Four Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, including an officer, were killed and three others injured in an 'unprovoked' firing by Pakistan Rangers along the International Border (IB) in Sam...

North Korea sees summit as a win as Trump halts war games

North Korea sees summit as a win as Trump halts war games

-- 2018-06-13 12:33:30

North Korean state media lauded on Wednesday the summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump as a resounding success, highlighting concessions by the US president and the prospect of a new era of peac...

Road accident claims 17 lives in Uttar Pradesh

Road accident claims 17 lives in Uttar Pradesh

-- 2018-06-13 11:43:04

At least 17 people were killed and 30 others injured when a speeding bus hit a road divider in Mainpuri city of Uttar Pradesh state of India on Wednesday. The Injured have been admitted to a local ho...

Malaysia’s top two judges quit

Malaysia’s top two judges quit

-- 2018-06-13 10:26:49

Malaysia’s two most senior judges have resigned from their posts, as Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s government purges top officials seen close to the previous administration. The list...

Saudi-led alliance gears  up for battle in Yemen

Saudi-led alliance gears up for battle in Yemen

-- 2018-06-12 22:02:37

A Saudi-led coalition geared up on Tuesday for an assault on Yemen's main port, reports Agencies. They are preparing to launch by far the biggest battle of a three-year-old war between an alliance of...

Iran warns Kim about nuclear agreement with Trump

Iran warns Kim about nuclear agreement with Trump

-- 2018-06-12 21:16:04

The spokesman for the Iranian government is warning North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that President Donald Trump could nullify any nuclear deal with North Korea. The semi-official Fars news agency quo...

Lawyers unwilling to take my case: Nawaz Sharif

Lawyers unwilling to take my case: Nawaz Sharif

-- 2018-06-12 18:12:02

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who has been facing charges in the Avenfield properties case has said that no lawyer is willing to take his case. Mr Sharif's lawyer Khwaja Haris on Mon...

Police grills Netanyahu over telecom corruption case

Police grills Netanyahu over telecom corruption case

-- 2018-06-12 18:07:05

Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday over his alleged dealings with the country's largest telecommunication company, Israel Radio said, one of three corruption cases...

Trump, Kim sign agreement on denuclearisation, security of N Korea

Trump, Kim sign agreement on denuclearisation, security of N Korea

-- 2018-06-12 12:08:52

US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged on Tuesday to work toward complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula while Washington committed to provide security guarant...

Vietnam goes tough on Google, Facebook

Vietnam goes tough on Google, Facebook

Reuters 2018-06-12 11:58:27

Vietnamese lawmakers approved a controversial cybersecurity law on Tuesday, voting amid tight security following weekend protests over other legislation that turned violent in some parts of the commun...

Trump and Kim begin historic summit

Trump and Kim begin historic summit

-- 2018-06-12 09:25:55

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump shook hands and smiled cautiously as they met at their historic summit in Singapore on Tuesday, in which the two men will look for ways to...

Kim enjoys Singapore sites

Kim enjoys Singapore sites

-- 2018-06-11 21:19:40

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited tourist sites on Singapore’s waterfront on Monday. Kim and US President Donald Trump now in the city-state for a historic summit to end a nuclear stand-o...

Suicide bomber kills 13 outside Afghan ministry

Suicide bomber kills 13 outside Afghan ministry

-- 2018-06-11 18:45:10

A suicide bomber killed 13 people and wounded more 25 during rush hour on Monday at the entrance to Afghanistan’s rural rehabilitation and development ministry in Kabul as workers were leaving f...

Trump, Pompeo positive ahead Singapore summit

Trump, Pompeo positive ahead Singapore summit

-- 2018-06-11 17:40:38

US President Donald Trump said on Monday his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore could “work out very nicely”. According to Reuters, Trump mentioned that off...

Afghan roadside bomb kills six civilians

Afghan roadside bomb kills six civilians

-- 2018-06-11 14:01:56

An Afghan official says a roadside bomb struck a microbus in the eastern Ghazni province, killing six people. Arif Noori, a spokesman for the provincial governor, says women and children were among t...

Hong Kong jails pro-democracy activist for assaulting cops

Hong Kong jails pro-democracy activist for assaulting cops

-- 2018-06-11 11:34:12

A former rising star in Hong Kong’s radical youth opposition was sentenced to 6 years in jail on Monday for rioting and assaulting police, one of the city’s harshest sentences against a de...

North Korea eyes 'new relationship' with US

North Korea eyes 'new relationship' with US

-- 2018-06-11 11:27:58

North Korean state media has raised the possibility that the isolated country could "establish a new relationship" with the United States. It comes a day before North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meets...

Trump reaches Singapore

Trump reaches Singapore

-- 2018-06-10 19:54:29

US President Donald Trump reached Singapore on Sunday ahead of a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump flew into Singapore’s Paya Lebar Air Base aboard Air Force One direc...

Singapore PM meets DPRK leader

Singapore PM meets DPRK leader

-- 2018-06-10 18:42:29

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong met with Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (...

Iran president criticises US ‘unilateralism’ over nuclear deal

Iran president criticises US ‘unilateralism’ over nuclear deal

-- 2018-06-10 16:08:41

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday criticised US ‘unliteralism’ in withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and said he appreciated efforts by China and Russia to maintain the agreem...