International
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2.3KIraqi Kurds cast vote in historic independence referendum
Irbil (Iraq): Iraqi Kurds were casting ballots on Monday in Iraq’s Kurdish region on whether to support independence from Baghdad in a historic...
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2.4KSaudi cleric suspended for calling women ‘quarter brained’
Riyadh: A Saudi cleric who said women should not be allowed to drive because they have a “quarter” of the brainpower of men...
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3.0KTrump and Kim are like kindergarten children, says Russian foreign Minister
Russia: Russia’s foreign minister has likened the war of words between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un to a kindergarten fight between children,...
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3.4KUNSC warns against Kurdish independence referendum
United Nations: The United Nations Security Council has expressed concern over the ‘potentially destabilizing impact’ of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s plans to unilaterally...
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2.1KTwo of the six arrested in London tube bombing freed
London: Two of the six men arrested in connection with last week’s bombing in the London subway have been released without charge,...
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1.8KPakistan a ‘terroristan’: India at UN
United Nations (New York): Labeling Pakistan as a “terroristan”, India today exercising its right to reply said that Pakistan has become “a geography synonymous...
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2.1K‘Appoint a special envoy to Kashmir’: Pak PM Abbasi to UN
Hands UN chief Guterres a dossier on ‘Indian abuses in occupied Kashmir’ United Nations (New York): Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Thursday...
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2.4K50 nations sign UN nuclear ban treaty
“The pact was vehemently opposed by the big powers” United Nations: Fifty countries have signed a treaty to ban nuclear weapons, a pact...
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3.5KNorth Korea likens Trump’s UN speech to a ‘barking dog’
New York: North Korea’s Foreign Minister has called US President Donald Trump’s “totally destroy” speech to the UN on Wednesday as “the sound...
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2.6KCourting the global south: Will Israel become a UN Security Council member?
There is a great irony in the fact that Israel is seeking a seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Since...
