Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that Indians will not swallow “lies and abuse” against him, as opposition critics accuse his government of giving undue favours to a business group led by billionaire tycoon Gautam Adani. Modi spent a nearly 90-minute speech to parliament mainly listing his government’s achievements […]
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(Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan acknowledged on Wednesday some problems with Turkiye’s initial response to the earthquake that rocked the south but said normal operations have resumed, adding that the death toll in the country rose to 11,000. Erdogan made his first visit to the devastated region since the Monday, […]
Rescuers search for victims and survivors amidst the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras, Turkiye, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake Overwhelmed rescuers struggled to save people trapped under the rubble as the death toll from a devastating earthquake in Turkiye and Syria surpassed 5,000 on Tuesday, with despair mounting and the […]
ANKARA -UNS: A huge earthquake killed more than 2,200 people and injured thousands more on Monday in Turkiye and northwest Syria, flattening apartment blocks and heaping more destruction on Syrian cities already devastated by years of war. The magnitude 7.8 quake, which hit before sunrise in bitter winter weather, was […]
ISLAMABAD: The Chairperson of Peace and Culture Organisation, Mushaal Hussein Mullick said that the supremacist Hindutva regime crossed all limits of state-sponsored terrorism and war crimes to stifle the powerful dissenting voices in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). Mushaal, wife of jailed Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Muhammad Yasin […]
KABUL -UNS : An envoy for Qatar’s foreign affairs minister visited the Afghan capital on Sunday and met the Taliban administration’s acting foreign minister, according to an Afghan foreign ministry statement. The visit comes after the Taliban administration placed restrictions on women’s education and NGO work, which Qatar labelled “deeply […]
JAMES M. DORSEY A recent survey of Iranian public opinion suggests that the lack of confidence in a Middle Eastern regime is starkest in Iran, although crisis-wracked Lebanon, Egypt, or Syria may compete. Surveyed in late December by the Netherlands-based Gamaan Institute, an overwhelming majority of the 158,000 respondents in […]
President Joe Biden has underlined his support for the legal “status quo” of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound in a meeting at the White House with Jordanian King Abdullah II. Biden, the king and Crown Prince Hussein had a private lunch on Thursday in which the US president “reaffirmed the close, […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: “It is clear that resolving the Kashmir dispute requires a careful evaluation of its many points of contention and addressing them one by one in a carefully drawn-out process in which coming to an agreement on each sets the stage for moving on to the next. The most […]
JAMES M. DORSEY Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has put Israel’s closest allies and some of his key partners on the spot. So has a generation of Palestinian youth that has nothing to lose and no longer sees fruitless engagement with and acquiescence of the Jewish state as a means of […]
