PAKISTAN: DEATH TOLL IN PESHAWAR MOSQUE SUICIDE BOMBING KEEPS RISING, REACHES 93

Tue 31 January 2023: At least 93 people were killed and 221 more were injured in the horrifying mosque blast that targeted police officials in the secured Police Lines facility in Peshawar. Bodies were still being pulled from the rubble on Tuesday. The January 30 attack on the Sunni mosque located inside a high-security police […]

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RUSSIA WARNS UK AGAINST ESCALATING TENSIONS WITH THREATS OF DIRECT ARMED CONFLICT

Mon 30 January 2023: The Russian embassy in London warned of an increase in European tensions after the chairman of the British defense select committee said the UK should “face Russia directly” over Ukraine. “This and similar remarks, including arguments that Tobias Ellwood, the head of the Commons’ defense committee, made today in favor of […]

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GANDHI’S 150-DAY MARCH IS OVER. BUT WILL IT REVIVE CONGRESS?

Mon 30 January 2023: Leader of India’s main opposition party concludes cross-country ‘unity’ march in Kashmir, five months after departing from Tamil Nadu state. New Delhi, India – Hundreds of people on Monday defied the harsh Himalayan cold as they gathered in Srinagar, the largest city in Indian-administered Kashmir, to join opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on […]

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AUTHORITIES TO DEPLOY 11,000 POLICE AS FRANCE BRACES FOR NEW STRIKES

Mon 30 January 2023: The security for nationwide protests against a proposed pension reform would be provided by 11,000 police officers and gendarmes, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced on Monday. On January 19, the first wave of protests against the legislation that would raise the retirement age in the nation began. Tuesday’s second wave […]

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PESHAWAR MOSQUE BLAST: DEATH TOLL RISES TO 32, AT LEAST 150 INJURED (VIDEO)

Mon 30 January 2023: More than a dozen people have been killed, and many others wounded in a explosion at a mosque, in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. According to the Peshawar police, at least 32 people were killed in the blast at least 150 others were injured. The suicide attacker was present in […]

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RUSSIAN ATHLETES SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO COMPETE AT OLYMPICS -ZELENSKYY

Mon 30 January 2023: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russian athletes should not compete at the 2024 Olympics in Paris because it would show that “terror is somehow acceptable,” the BBC reported on Monday. Zelenskyy said he condemns the idea of neutrality in sports at a time when his country’s athletes have fought and died in war, while […]

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FINLAND’S NATO BID MAY BE CONSIDERED SEPARATELY FROM SWEDEN: TURKISH FM ÇAVUŞOĞLU

Mon 30 January 2023: Türkiye may show a different approach to Finland’s NATO bid than Sweden, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu said on Monday, Anadolu Agency reported. “If NATO and these countries (Finland and Sweden) take such a decision, we, as Türkiye, think that we may evaluate the applications separately, but first of all, NATO […]

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PUTIN ‘THREATENED ME’ WITH MISSILE STRIKE, FORMER UK PM JOHNSON SAYS

Mon 30 January 2023: Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson claims Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike during a phone call in the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine. Johnson, speaking to the BBC for a documentary, said Putin had asked him about the prospects of Ukraine joining NATO, to which […]

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TÜRKIYE MAY RESPOND ‘DIFFERENTLY’ TO FINLAND’S NATO BID WHICH WOULD ‘SHOCK’ SWEDEN: ERDOĞAN

Sun 29 January 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sunday that Türkiye could respond to Finland’s NATO bid “differently” than Sweden, which would “shock” Sweden. “We may respond differently to Finland if necessary. Sweden would be shocked when we respond differently to Finland. But Finland should not make the same mistake,” Erdoğan said at a meeting with the youth in the country’s Bilecik […]

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