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Five to appear in court in Nice attack caseReuters, Paris Five people held for questioning over the Bastille day attack in the southern French city...
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US may abandon NATO protection : Trump 1800
BBC Online :Donald Trump has said that if he is elected president he may abandon a guarantee of protection to fellow Nato countries.Speaking to the...
Mishandled Kashmir poses grave danger: Sonia Gandhi
Dawn.com, New Delhi :Indian opposition parties have slammed the Modi government’s use of excessive force against civilians in the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir...
S Korea’s President calls for unity over THAAD deployment
Reuters, Seoul :South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Thursday the move to deploy a THAAD missile defense system was “inevitable” because of a growing...
Obama speaks with Erdogan, offers help after failed coup
Reuters, Washington :US President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged US assistance to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the investigation into last week’s attempted...
Indian lawmakers in uproar over attacks on lower castes
AP, New Delhi :India’s Parliament was in an uproar Wednesday after four men belonging to the low-caste Dalit community were beaten while trying to skin...
Trump to be defeated, says Hillary in Ohio
AFP, Cincinnati :Hillary Clinton sought to wrest the spotlight from the Republican National Convention on Monday, by taking her own campaign to Ohio and telling...
France National Assembly votes to extend state of emergency
AFP , Paris :France’s National Assembly voted in the early hours of Wednesday to extend the country’s state of emergency for six months following last...
UK gives up planned presidency of EU to focus on Brexit
Reuters, London :Prime Minister Theresa May will try to reassure allies over Britain’s vote to leave the European Union when she meets German Chancellor Angela...
EU police agency warns of extremist threats to Europe
AP, The Hague :The number of people killed in attacks by extremists throughout Europe soared in 2015 from a year earlier, the European Union police...
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US declines to speculate on Pak coup threats Dawn. Com, WashingtonThe White House has said that it would not like to speculate if Pakistan was...
After Nice attack, French Muslims feel fear and alienation
Reuters, Nice :In the poor Nice suburb of Ariane, many Muslims feel their community is being unfairly blamed for the Bastille Day attack that killed...