Category: INTERNATIONAL

Fresh fires, bomb blast in Myanmar’s Rakhine

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Blast in Myanmar

Twenty homes caught fire and a bomb was detonated near a mosque in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the government said on Friday, the latest unrest in a region that has seen hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee in under a month. The violence comes days after Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi declared that the military had ceased its “clearance operations” in the border area. The army claims it is trying to flush out Rohingya militants who attacked police posts on August 25. But civilian refugees streaming into Bangladesh…

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International Community should take immediate notice of situation in IHK, Says Ali Raza Syed

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Protest in Geneva

Kashmir Council Europe (KC-EU)’s Chairman Mr Ali Raza Syed has urged the International Community to take immediate and serious notice of severe situation in the occupied land of Jammu and Kashmir (IHK).   Addressing a seminar in Geneva Mr Ali Raza Syed said, the extrajudicial killing of Kashmiris specially killing of people during the peaceful protest and using pellet guns on the innocent protesters is a usual matter in IHK. Seminar was arranged by Protection of Women and Children Right headed by Kashmiri leader Syed Faiz Naqshbandi. International Community should…

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London police arrest two more men linked to London Underground attack

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Two men were arrested on Wednesday over last week’s London Underground terror attack in which 30 people were injured, bringing the total number of people in custody to five, police said. The men, aged 48 and 30, were arrested under anti-terrorism legislation in Newport in Wales, police said in a statement, after a 25-year-old man was arrested in the same city on Tuesday. “This continues to be a fast-moving investigation,” Dean Haydon, head of counter-terrorism at London’s Metropolitan Police, said in the statement. “We now have five men in custody and searches…

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At UNGA, Trump threatens ‘total destruction’ of North Korea

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United States (US) President Donald Trump, in a combative debut speech to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), threatened the ‘total destruction’ of North Korea if it does not abandon its drive toward nuclear weapons. Trump, who has ramped up his rhetoric throughout the escalating crisis with North Korea, told the murmuring crowd at the UN on Tuesday that “it is far past time for the nations of the world to confront” Kim Jong Un and said that Kim’s “reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons” poses a threat to “the entire…

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Yemen soldier kills Al-Qaeda detainees to avenge his father’s murder

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A young soldier participating in operations against Al-Qaeda in Yemen murdered three militant detainees who confessed to killing his colonel father, a security source said on Sunday. The soldier, a member of Yemen’s government intelligence services, carried out the killings “suddenly and without the consent of his colleagues” during an interrogation on Saturday, the source said. According to the source, the soldier’s colleagues were “angered” by the killings, but he did not face repercussions. Tribal leaders confirmed the revenge killings to AFP. The detainees were captured during a military operation last…

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British police arrest second suspect over London train attack from Hounslow

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Train Attack in London

A second man has been arrested in connection with the bombing of a London Underground train, police said on Sunday after announcing that they were hunting for more suspects. The 21-year-old man was detained late Saturday in Hounslow, on the western rim of the capital, a statement said. Officers had earlier arrested an 18-year-old man over Friday’s attack at Parsons Green station, which injured 30 people. The man, who has not been named, was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of committing, preparing or instigating an act of terrorism. “We’re keeping an open mind…

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Human rights of Kashmiris highlighted in Community Carnival in Berlin

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Ali Raza Syed in Community Carnival in Berlin

Berlin: Human rights of Kashmiris was concentrated in the annual community carnival on Saturday in Berlin, the capital of Germany.The multicultural parade was organized by community carnival organization coordinated by Germany based social figure Mr Samillah. At least 19 trucks participated in the carnival and one of them was specified for Kashmir which was arranged by Kashmir Free Organization Germany headed by Mr Saddique Kiyani. On the occasion Mr Saddique Kiyani said, the truck with Kashmiri shade specially having Kashmiri flags and banners with human rights slogans helped in raising…

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Bomber attacks foreign military convoy in Afghanistan: officials

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A suicide attacker driving an explosives-filled vehicle slammed into a convoy of foreign troops in southern Afghanistan on Friday wounding several soldiers, officials said. The Taliban claimed the attack which Kandahar provincial governor spokesman Fazal Bari Baryalai told AFP “totally destroyed” one of the vehicles carrying Romanian soldiers in Daman district. A spokesman for Nato’s Resolute Support train and assist mission confirmed a “small number” of soldiers were wounded. In a WhatsApp message to journalists Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said “seven invading forces” were killed. The militants routinely exaggerate…

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1,800-year-old dot is first ‘zero’, say researchers

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1,800-year-old dot is first ‘zero’, say researchers

LONDON: A black dot on a third-century manuscript has been identified by Oxford University as the first recorded use of the mathematical symbol for ‘zero’, 500 years earlier than previously thought. “Scientists from the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, have used carbon dating to trace the figure’s origins to the famous ancient Indian scroll,” the university said in a statement. The birch bark scroll is known as the Bakhshali manuscript, named after Bakhshali village near Peshawar, where it was found buried in 1881. It has been held at the Bodleian…

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North Korea fires missile over Japan following UN sanctions

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North Korea fires missile over Japan

North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan and into the Pacific on Friday, responding to new UN sanctions with what appeared to be its furthest-ever missile flight amid high tensions over its weapons programmes. The launch, from near Pyongyang, came after the United Nations Security Council imposed an eighth set of measures on the isolated country following its sixth nuclear test earlier this month. It was by far its largest to date and Pyongyang said it was a hydrogen bomb small enough to fit onto a missile. In New…

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Suicide bomber kills three near Kabul cricket stadium

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Suicide bomber kills three near Kabul cricket stadium

A suicide bomber blew himself up near a cricket stadium in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, killing three people including a policeman and wounding five others, police said. The attacker detonated the bomb after he was stopped at a security checkpoint by suspicious police as he walked towards the Alokozay Kabul International Cricket Ground where a match was under way. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the latest in a series of deadly assaults in the city. “The security forces by sacrificing themselves have prevented…

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Three Norwegian Pakistanis, one Iranian, One Iraqi and one Indian get seat in Norway’s national parliament

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Report by Overseas Tribune Three Norwegian politicians with Pakistani background, one Iranian, One Iraqi and one Indian have secure their slot in the Norwegian national parliament. The parliamentary elections were held in Norway on Monday, 11th September, 2017. The Norwegian Pakistani Abid Qayyum Raja is affiliated with liberal party of Norway. It is for the second time, he has been elected a member parliament. Another newly elected MP rom Pakistani origin is Mudassar Hussain Kapur from Conservative Party. Hadia Tajik also has been elected MP for second time.  She is former…

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Turkey signs deal to buy Russian S-400 missile systems

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Turkey has signed a deal with Russia to buy S-400 missile defence systems in its first major weapons purchase from Moscow, Turkish newspapers on Tuesday quoted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying. The accord for the surface-to-air missile defence batteries is Ankara’s most significant pact with a non-Nato supplier. “Signatures have been made for the purchase of S-400s from Russia. A deposit has also been paid as far as I know,” Erdogan said in comments published in the Hurriyet Daily and other newspapers. “(Russian President Vladimir Putin) and myself are determined on…

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Global split over Rohingya crisis as China backs Myanmar crackdown

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International divisions emerged on Tuesday ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on a worsening refugee crisis in Myanmar, with China voicing support for a military crackdown that has been criticised by the US, slammed as “ethnic cleansing” and forced 370,000 Rohingya to flee the violence. Beijing’s intervention appears aimed at heading off any attempt to censure Myanmar at the council when it convenes on Wednesday. China was one of the few foreign friends of Myanmar’s former junta. Beijing has tightened its embrace under Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government…

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United Nation’s Estranged Role In Kashmir

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The UN has been a ghastly nearness in Kashmir struggle from the beginning. Observing once again the war zones of 1948 and expediting a delicate peace. Over the most recent couple of decades it has withdrawn consistently away from plain sight as its own significance as a peace keeping body started to blur. For a considerable length of time the UN military spectator’s office lay overlooked in Srinagar’s rich political locale a relic from another period. In any case amid late uprisings softened out up the Valley it has all…

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