Pakistan urges UN to intervene over Kashmir tension with India

Pakistan’s attorney general Anwar Mansoor Khan, right, greets Deepak Mittal, the joint secretary of India’s Foreign Ministry, as he present oral arguments at the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands. India is taking Pakistan to the United Nations’ highest court in an attempt to save…

Indonesia submits bid to host 2032 Olympics

JAKARTA, Feb 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Indonesia has submitted a bid to host the 2032 Olympics, after winning praise for hosting last year’s Asian Games, though it could face competition from India and a joint bid by North and South Korea. Indonesia’s ambassador to Switzerland submitted a letter from President Joko…

US-China trade talks resume in Washington from Tuesday: White House

WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US-China trade talks aimed at ending a damaging tariff war resumed from Tuesday (Feb 19) in Washington, the White House said. The last set of talks ended Friday in Beijing with no deal, though US President Donald Trump said the discussions were going “extremely well” and…

North Korea envoy en route to Hanoi ahead of Trump-Kim summit

BEIJING, Feb 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The North Korean special representative for the US arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, apparently en route to Hanoi to meet his Washington counterpart ahead of a second scheduled summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un in the Vietnamese capital. Kim Hyok Chol arrived in…

Budget 2019: 30% of Singapore Government expenditure to go towards defence, security and diplomacy

SINGAPORE, Feb 19 (NNN-CNA) — The Singapore government will spend about S$22.7 billion, or 30 per cent of its total expenditure in Financial Year (FY) 2019, on defence, security and diplomacy, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat announced in his Budget statement. In FY2018, defence, security and diplomacy spending accounted for about 28…

Iran arrests militants linked to attack on Revolutionary Guards

TEHRAN, Feb 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) Revolutionary Guards have broken up a group of militants in southeast Iran who were linked to a suicide bombing that killed 27 guards near the border with Pakistan last week, the Corps said. “Sunday night, a terrorist cell was identified and destroyed in an operation,” the…

Update: Nine Killed In Kashmir Gun Battle

  PULWAMA (Kashmir), Feb 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ninepeople, including four Indian soldiers and a policeman, have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir during a gun battle, police say. The clash occurred in Pulwama, where more than 40 Indian paramilitary police were killed in a bombing last week. A civilian and three…

Maldives: Ex-president Yameen arrested over witness tampering – officials

MALE, Feb 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Maldives authorities detained former president Abdulla Yameen after he was accused of trying to bribe witnesses in his money laundering trial, officials said. The arrest came after the Criminal Court began a hearing into allegations that Yameen received nearly $1.5 million in illicit payments just…

UAE assures Bangladesh of looking manpower issue positively

ABU DHABI (UAE), Feb 19 (NNN-BSS) — Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayad Al Nahyan assured Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of looking “very positively” about Bangladeshi manpower in UAE market and his country’s investment in Bangladesh. In a meeting with the Bangladesh prime minister at Royal Palace,…

100 Australian Daesh Militants Unaccounted For In Middle East: Gov’t

CANBERRA, Australia, Feb 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The fate of as many as 100 Australians, who left the country to fight for the Daesh, remains unknown, the Australian government said. Of the 230 Australians who travelled to the conflict zone in the Middle East, to take up the fight for the…
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