Wed 01 May 2019: NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.N. Security Council committee blacklisted the head of Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) on Wednesday, after China dropped its long-held obstruction of the move, diplomats said. JeM carried out an attack in Kashmir on Feb. 14 that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police, making it […]
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Wed 01 May 2019: Hundreds of Indian soldiers descended on the picturesque village of Pinglan, which is surrounded by south Kashmir’s apple and apricot orchards, just before midnight on February 17. By the time they left 18 hours later, one civilian, three armed militants, and five members of the security forces were dead, a row […]
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Wed 01 May 2019: Military trolled over ‘photographic evidence’ of mythical Himalayan creature The Indian army has claimed to have found the footprints of a yeti, prompting ridicule on social media. On Monday, the army tweeted to nearly 6 million followers that it had found “mysterious footprints of [the] mythical beast”. The post added that […]
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Wed 01 May 2019: Nineteen students have taken their own lives in the Indian state of Telangana since mid-April, after the release of intermediate examination results, officials say. The state examination for 12th-graders has come under scrutiny. Hundreds of parents have protested the marking and evaluation of the test papers, which they say have resulted […]
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Tue 30 Apr 2019: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres raised the plight of ethnic Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang region during talks with Chinese leaders and stressed that China must fully respect human rights, his spokesman said Monday. Guterres faced calls to speak out on human rights during his visit to Beijing where he attended a summit […]
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Tue 30 Apr 2019: Tribal leaders, religious figures and politicians from across Afghanistan gathered on Monday in Kabul amid tight security to discuss the war and American efforts to forge a peace deal with the Taliban. More than 3,000 people were attending the rare “loya jirga,” which is being billed as the largest in modern […]
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Mon 29 Apr 2019: The fourth phase of India’s staggered national election Monday was marred by multiple clashes that injured at least seven people and led to security forces firing warning shots outside one polling station. A junior minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party, Babul Supriyo, said his car was attacked by […]
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Sun 28 Apr 2019: JAKARTA (Reuters) – Ten days after Indonesia held the world’s biggest single-day elections, more than 270 election staff have died, mostly of fatigue-related illnesses caused by long hours of work counting millions of ballot papers by hand, an official said on Sunday. The April 17 elections were the first time the […]
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Thu 25 Apr 2019: DHAKA (Reuters) – Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are at risk from landslides in the coming monsoon season and should be relocated to a remote island, the country’s foreign minister said on Thursday, a move opposed by many refugees. Bangladesh wants to move 100,000 of the nearly 1 million Rohingya Muslims sheltered […]
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Thu 25 Apr 2019: Pakistan showed off its newest domestically-built anti-ship and land-attack cruise missile during a test in the Indian Ocean. The test is part of Islamabad’s ongoing efforts to acquire more “indigenous” weapons. The missile, launched from a fast attack craft in the northern Indian Ocean, successfully hit a target on the shore, […]
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