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Terror attacks in Pakistan kill 293 people this year
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, 192 people were killed and 330 injured in 219 incidents, whereas Balochistan reported 80 fatalities and 170 wounded persons in 206 attacks, said Director General (DG) of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry at a press briefing. A total of 21 people were killed.
Swedish research rocket veers off course, lands in Norway
The nine-metre-long rocket was launched from Esrange Space Centre, approximately 200 km north of the Arctic Circle, reports Xinhua news agency. In a report on Tuesday, Sweden's Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper reported that after reaching an altitude of 250 km, where zero-gravity experiments were carried out, it landed 40 km.
Iran, Saudi Arabia resume trade: Minister
Trade Minister Reza Fatemi-Amin made the remarks to mediapersons on Tuesday when asked to comment on the agreement reached between Tehran and Riyadh to normalise bilateral relations in March, Xinhua news agency reported. On Sunday, Iran's Roads and Urban Development Minister Mehrdad Bazrpash announced.
Israel's UN envoy walks out of Security Council meeting in protest
Erdan said he was outraged by the Council's refusal to re-schedule Tuesday's debate on the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, as Tuesday marked Yom HaZikaron, or Memorial Day, for fallen Israeli soldiers, reports Xinhua news agency. Israel made numerous requests to re-schedule the debate, but the Security Council.
Former US columnist accuses Donald Trump of first 'raping' and then 'ridiculing' her
A US civil trial hearing a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump alleges that he sexually assaulted prominent former American columnist E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and then "ridiculed" her with defamatory comments. Trump has denied these allegations, and his lawyers claim that Carroll is motivated by money and fame.
People of India now see China as their greatest military threat, not Pakistan: US Congressman Ro Khanna
"China creeps towards hegemony in Asia, threatens India's borders, and treats other countries as junior partners. The people of India now see China as their greatest military threat, not Pakistan," he said while delivering a speech on foreign policy at Stanford's Hoover Institution.
Washington state bans assault weapons
The bill bans the sale, transfer, distribution, manufacture and importation of 62 gun models it defines as "assault weapons", including AR-15s, AK-47s and similar high-powered rifles that have been used to carry out the mass shootings across the US, Xinhua news agency reported. "These weapons of war, assault weapons, have no reason other than mass murder," Inslee said at the signing ceremony on Tuesday. "Their only purpose is to kill humans as rapidly as possible in large numbers."
US lawmaker Khanna takes jab at talk of 'Hinduphobia'
Speaking to reporters ahead of a day-long conference he is hosting on Capitol Hill on India-US elections, the lawmaker also indicated that he will push for an invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address a joint session of Congress during his June visit, which, to be clear.
India invited to join regional group on Afghanistan: Lavrov
The Quartet of Russia, China, Pakistan and Iran has been working together on Afghanistan "and we invited India as well" to join making it a quintet, he said at a news conference at the UN in New York on Tuesday. "We want this Quintet to be constituted as something of a core for the format of neighbouring states," he said. The foreign ministers of the Quartet met in Samarkand in Uzbekistan earlier this month under the chairmanship of China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang and offered to cooperate with the Taliban regime in reconstruction and in economic matters.
Taliban kills IS leader behind 2021 Kabul airport bombing
The August 2021 bombing at the Abbey Gate entrance of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul killed 170 civilians and 13 US troops as people were trying to flee Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. US officials told CBS News that the leader died weeks ago, but it took time to confirm his death, the BBC reported.
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