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Afghan tragedy unfolds in Pakistan
Reportedly, more than 370,000 Afghans have fled Pakistan since October 1, after islamabad vowed to expel more than a million undocumented refugees, mostly Afghans.
Trump's campaign against Obamacare health insurance could backfire badly in 2024
Obamacare or Affordable Care Act (ACA) as it is known, sought to bring down the cost of healthcare for urban middle classes in cities by subsidising the programme taxing the rich.
Islamophobe Geert Wilders, the new Dutch PM?
In a long post on X, he expressed frustration at other parties for their apparent unwillingness to cooperate with his Freedom Party (PVV), Wilders said he would "continue to moderate"; his positions if necessary to gain power.
India caught between 'West Asia' and 'Middle East'
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and his ministry have been using the two terms interchangeably for the region in a marked departure from the past when the Indian officialdom went with "West Asia" from the time the ministry was created, according to anecdotal accounts cited by past and present diplomats.
If Lebanon is any guide, Israel's maximalist war will end without winners
Then, as now, much of the fighting took place in densely populated urban areas, with militants often interspersed among civilians.
Why Israel can ignore world sentiments and Russia gets targeted
Over a month of relentless, indiscriminate bombing and then a ground invasion by Israeli forces following the October 7 Hamas terror attack has left over 11,000 Palestinians, overwhelmingly women and children, dead in Gaza, and another 3,000 odd missing.
China’s uncomfortable role as the world’s largest official debt collector
Fifty-five per cent of its loans to low- and middle-income countries have already entered their principal repayment periods and this figure will increase to 75 per cent by 2030.
Tiny Qatar occupies world stage as key negotiator to free Hamas-held hostages even as Western nations suspicious of its ties
Qatar has become a main intermediary in negotiations supported by the Arabs in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE with the US and Israel to secure the early release of more than 200 hostages captured by Hamas in its attack on Israel on October 7. Four have already been freed. The IDF rescued another earlier this week, media reports said .
Markets holding but no clarity on breakout
BSE SESENSEX gained 580.98 points or 0.91 per cent to close at 64,363.78 points while NIFTY gained 183.35 points or 0.96 per cent to close at 19,230.60 points.
In Jagan's Andhra Pradesh, there's no room for even slightest dissent
Individuals, including leaders and workers of the opposition parties, were booked for posting comments on social media seen as critical of the government, the Chief Minister or Ministers.
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