Rejecting OHCHR’s Update on Kashmir Report, India questions seriousness of its office
India has registered a strong protest regarding the Update with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Oil rises amidst Iran tensions
Tehran said on Sunday it will soon boost its uranium enrichment above a limit set by a 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA.
“Doha process a failure for the US, they have been unable to force Taliban to a ceasefire’
The Taliban believes that such attacks will provide an opportunity for it to bargain from a position of greater strength and derive maximum concessions from the talks.
Russia funded and equipped Taliban in the north: Former Taliban commander
The Russian ambassador to Kabul Alexander Mantetskey, said: “We will never endeavor to finance and equip the armed opposition groups who are fighting against Afghanistan government and its security forces because equipping and supporting this group has no benefit.
Maldives Chief of Defence Force wants India to act as Gaurantor of Peace and Stability in IOR
Speaking about Maldives’ ‘India First Policy’, Maj. Gen. Shamaal said countries in the region could draw many positive lessons from Indian culture and its democratic traditions.
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Wage Inequality growing worldwide: ILO
Top earners around the world have seen their share of national income rise in the last decade and a half, while everyone else has seen their pay packets shrink by comparison, UN economists reported on Thursday.
Third Trump-Kim summit: a case of deflated ambitions
If anything these three Trump-Kim summits have seen President Trump turn Kim Jong-un from being a pariah ruler of his hermit kingdom to one who has had about a dozen summit meetings with world leaders in the last one year, something that puts Kim at the very center-stage of debates on international affairs.
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Talk360 partners Ding to establish footprint worldwide
Amsterdam: Dutch technology startup, Talk360, has partnered with mobile top-up platform Ding, in a venture
Is There a Plausible Alternative to The Two-State Solution?
two states were viewed not just as the indispensable basis for the long-term relationship between the two peoples, but also as the essential structure for serious negotiations on all outstanding issues, whatever the ultimate vision. In other words, it was as much “framework” as “solution.”
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Jesus’s birthplace removed from list of heritage sites in danger
The United Nations’ cultural agency announced on Tuesday that it was removing the place that is officially recognized as the Birthplace of Jesus, from its List of World Heritage in Danger – crediting extensive restorative work on Bethlehem’s Nativity Church, in Palestine.
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