Category: INTERNATIONAL

NEW YORK: A New York judge sought to avoid a testy tech-age free-speech showdown between Donald Trump and people blocked from his Twitter account on Thursday, proposing the president just mute rather than block them. In a unique case given rise by Trump’s relentless use of Twitter to communicate to the American public, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said she was not ready to decide whether people have a right to complain, protest and insult in the comments section of his Twitter feed. Seven people from around the country — including…

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A Russian military cargo plane crashed as it was descending to land at an airbase in Syria on Tuesday, killing all 32 people onboard, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The Russian military said an An-26, with 26 passengers and six crew members onboard, crashed just 500 meters from the runway. The military blamed the crash on a technical error. Russia, a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, leases the Hemeimeem military base in Syria, near the Mediterranean coast. The base is far from the front lines of the conflict,…

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WASHINGTON: The Uni­ted States has assured Pakistan that it does not want to sever bilateral ties with this important ally while Islamabad extended its “wholehearted support” to the US-backed Afghan offer of peace talks with the Taliban. The two statements supplement renewed efforts to improve relations between the US and Pakistan which were once close allies in the war against terror. The move for improving ties began last week when Washington sent a senior Trump aide to Islamabad for talks with Pakistani leaders. And on Thursday, official sources in Washington…

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Here are few famous quotes from the participants of the Munich Security Conference #MSC2018, when asked about the most pressing global Security challenges: Jean Asselborn – Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, Luxembourg “The wars in the war in Syria. They could have huge impacts for the whole of the Middle East.” Nikola Dimitrov – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Macedonia “The tendency to look inward at a time when we need more global engagement.” Lyse Doucet –  Chief international correspondent at the BBC “The lack of trust between…

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It has been a week since I, came back from the Munich Security Conference 2018 (#MSC2018). The Munich Security Conference which kicked off with a moto “To the Brink – And Back” was a hobnobbing among the nearly five hundred senior security and defense officials gathered. Frequently the Munich Security Conference has been a bellwether for things to come in the global security landscape. The speakers use the forum to make headlines that have always echoed far beyond Munich. It was here in 2007 that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin publicly…

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A humanitarian “pause” announced by Russia in Syria’s deadly bombardment of Eastern Ghouta struggled to take hold Tuesday, with fresh violence erupting and no sign of aid deliveries or residents leaving the besieged enclave. Nine days after Russian-backed regime forces intensified their campaign against the rebel-held enclave, the deal offered some respite to civilians who had been cowering in their basements. But the first day of a five-hour daily “pause” announced by Russia was marred by fresh violence that saw at least two civilians killed by regime rocket fire. Moscow’s…

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Bollywood superstar Sridevi Kapoor, considered by many to be one of the biggest names in Hindi cinema, has died after suffering a heart attack in Dubai, her family told PTI Sunday. The shock death of the beloved Indian star in her mid-fifties, who reportedly passed away while attending her nephew’s wedding in the emirate late Saturday night, prompted an outpouring of grief among fans and fellow Bollywood actors. “I have no words. Condolences to everyone who loved Sridevi. A dark day. RIP”, tweeted actress Priyanka Chopra. Born Shree Amma Yanger…

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At least 23 people were killed and more than a dozen wounded in multiple suicide bombings and attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, the latest in a series of assaults in the war-torn country. In the biggest attack, Taliban militants stormed an army base in the western province of Farah overnight, killing at least 18 soldiers. “Last night, a big group of militants attacked an army base in Bala Buluk district of Farah. Unfortunately, we lost 18 soldiers, two soldiers were wounded. We have sent more reinforcements to the…

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Kashmir Council EU has launched a two-week campaign today (Friday), 23rd February 2018 for rememorizing ruthless 27-year old forgotten incident of Kunan Poshpora in Indian occupied Kashmir. It is essential to recap that it was night of February 23, 1991, the personnel of the 4 Rajputana Rifles of Indian Army cordoned off the two villages Kunan and Poshpora in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district under garb of house to house search and gangraped dozens of the women of these villages. Every year since 2014, 23rd February is commemorated as Kashmiri Women’s…

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Russia will continue to assist Pakistan to bolster its counterterrorism capabilities, and the two countries will also form a commission for military cooperation, TASS news agency reported. “We have confirmed Russia’s readiness to continue boosting Pakistan’s counterterrorism capacity, which is in the entire region’s interests,” he said while addressing a press conference with his Pakistani counterpart Khawaja Asif. Lavrov said fighting terrorism was a priority area of Russia-Pakistan cooperation, but his country also sees other opportunities for bilateral trade and economic cooperation with…

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Incendiary videos featuring Shambhu Lal Regar, a Rajasthan man jailed after brutally killing a Muslim labourer, reportedly recorded inside the Jodhpur Central Jail are circulating on social media and raising questions about the security breach, Indian media reported on Monday. Last year in December, police in western India arrested Regar for killing a Muslim labourer in an apparent religious attack in the western state of Rajasthan. The arrest came after the suspect had shared a grisly video of the labourer Mohammad Afrazul being hacked to death and then set on fire. TV…

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