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Majuro/Marshall Islands, Oct 5: As the Marshall Islands awaits an international court ruling on Wednesday on whether its lawsuit against three nuclear powers can proceed, many in the western Pacific nation question the merit of the David-versus-Goliath legal battle. The country of 55,000 people is taking on India, Pakistan and Britain in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), arguing they have

United Nations, Oct 4: The UN Security Council has not been discussing the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, Russia's envoy to the UN and Council president for October said, in a clear snub to Pakistan which had raised the Kashmir issue and surgical strike by India in the world body. "I don't want to go there, don't want to go there. No no please, I don't want to go there," Russia's

Baghdad, Oct 4: The IS terrorist group ringleader was reportedly seriously ill after having his food poisoned by an assassin, a media report said. Meals prepared for Baghdadi and three other commanders of the terrorist organisation were allegedly poisoned in Nineveh's Be'aaj district, the Daily Mail reported on Monday. It quoted an Iraqi news agency as saying that four militants, including

Kunduz, Oct 3: The Taliban launched an assault on Kunduz, which was the scene of intense fighting today, one year after the Islamist militia briefly took over the northern Afghan city following a lightning offensive. The assault came just a day before President Ashraf Ghani is due to meet world powers at a major donors conference in Brussels. The attack began in the early hours at the southern and

United Nations, Oct 2: India, the world's third largest carbon emitter, today ratified the landmark Paris climate deal, giving a major boost to the deal which appeared tantalisingly close to enter into force by the end of this year. Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin handed over the Instrument of Ratification signed by President Pranab Mukherjee, to Santiago Villalpando

New Delhi, Oct 2: China has again blocked India's bid at the UN to ban JeM chief Masood Azhar, the mastermind of the Pathankot terror attack. According to highly placed sources, just hours before the deadline earlier today, China requested the UN committee, which is considering a ban on the chief of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), to keep on hold the designation. After the

Washington, Oct 1: The army has often played a prominent role in the governance of Pakistan as democracy has not been tailored to its environment, the country's former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf has said. "Army has always had a role since our independence. It has played a very prominent role in the governance of Pakistan, mainly because of misgovernance by all the so-called

Washington, Oct 1: The United States has strongly objected to threats of nuclear warfare made by Pakistan against India and has conveyed its displeasure to that country in this regard. "We made that (American objection on nuclear threat) clear to them (Pakistan). Repeatedly," a senior State Department official said. The official who spoke on condition of anonymity, however, would not reveal the

Paris, Aug 24: The burkini, a body-concealing women's swimsuit that fits an Islamic dress code, has stirred a controversy in France. In one of the recent cases of crackdown, a Muslim woman was forced to remove her burkini at a Nice beach. Photos have emerged showing police confronting the woman in Nice on Tuesday. At least four police officers accosted a woman who was resting on the shore at the

Nice (France), Jul 15: A truck ploughed into a crowd in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 84 people today in what President Francois Hollande called a "terrorist" attack on revellers watching a Bastille Day fireworks display. The driver was shot dead after barrelling the truck two kilometres through the festive crowd on the palm-lined Promenade des Anglais, sending hundreds fleeing in