Pakistan’s election chaos casts shadow on next IMF deal
Al Jazeera : As Pakistan grapples with the aftermath of controversial elections, political chaos is threatening to cloud its $3bn deal with the International Monetary...
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India’s Sikh warriors join farmers’ protest
Reuters : Thousands of protesting Indian farmers facing off with security forces have come under the protection of the Nihang Sikhs, a warrior sect dating...
Shamima loses appeal over citizenship
Reuters : A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State lost her latest appeal on Friday over the removal...
The International Court of Justice is holding a week of hearings after a request from the United Nations, with an unprecedented 52 countries giving their views on Israel's occupation.: US urges UN court not to order Israel out of Palestinian lands
AFP: The United States told the UN’s top court on Wednesday that Israel should not be legally forced to withdraw from occupied Palestinian territory without...
US pushes for UN to support temporary Gaza ceasefire
Reuters : The United States has proposed a rival draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and...
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un receives car as gift from Putin
Reuters : North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has received a car from Russia’s President Vladimir Putin as a gift “for his personal use”, official...
Julian Assange case raises press freedom fears
Deutsche Welle : A grand total of 1,776 days: That’s how long Julian Assange will have been detained in Britain’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison by Tuesday,...
Three killed in Minnesota shooting
BBC Online : Minnesota police say two officers and a paramedic have been killed in a shooting at a family home. The gunman, who was...
Imran Khan-backed candidates to join Sunni party
Reuters : Independent candidates backed by Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister that won seats in inconclusive elections over 10 days ago will join the minority...
64 dead in Papua New Guinea tribal violence
AFP : Dozens of bloodied bodies have been found along a remote stretch of road in Papua New Guinea’s highlands, police said on Monday, a...
25 killed in Afghanistan landslide
AFP : A landslide caused by heavy snowfall has killed 25 people and injured eight others in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan, a disaster...
Gaza’s Nasser Hospital ‘completely out of service’ as Israeli attacks mount
Al Jazeera : Ground and air assaults by the Israeli forces have now rendered Gaza’s second-largest hospital nonoperational. The besieged enclave’s Ministry of Health and...