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Factbox-Key facts about the Allied landings at Normandy on D-Day

PARIS (Reuters) -American, British, Canadian and French leaders will commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday. Here are some facts about the Allies' D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6,

Factbox-What you need to know about the D-Day 80th anniversary ceremonies

PARIS (Reuters) - Veterans are flying in, memories are stirring and officials are finalising preparations for the ceremony  marking the 80th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings, one of the turning

Lebanon’s Hezbollah launches drones squadron towards Israeli military targets

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The armed Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Monday it had launched a squadron of drones towards the headquarters of the Israeli military's Galilee formation. Such an attack would be

Pak police arrest 44 terrorists from Punjab province

Lahore, Jun 3 (PTI) Law enforcement agencies in Pakistan's Punjab province have arrested 44 alleged terrorists of ISIS, Al-Qaeda and TTP who were...

Pakistan courts acquit jailed ex-PM Imran Khan in three high-profile cases, including cipher case

Islamabad, Jun 3 (PTI) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party founder Imran Khan was on Monday acquitted in three high-profile cases, including the cipher case, in a...

China says Britain’s MI6 recruited two Chinese government staff as spies

BEIJING (Reuters) -China has accused the British foreign intelligence service MI6 of recruiting two staff members from unnamed Chinese central state bodies as spies for the British government, its

In Gaza, Palestinians return to a shelter scarred by war

By Mahmoud Issa JABALIA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Palestinian Umm Mohammed Khrouat says she would rather live in a tent than the school where she is forced to shelter with her five children in northern

Philippine volcano erupts, authorities raise alert level

MANILA (Reuters) -The alert level has been raised at a volcano in the central Philippines after it erupted, sending a 5-kilometre (3.1-miles) high ash cloud into the sky, the country's seismology

Russia sets work punishment for woman who spoiled election ballots

(Reuters) - A Russian court sentenced a woman to one year and 8 months of "correctional work" on Monday for pouring green dye on ballots cast in the presidential election in March, a regional branch

Officials overseeing Indonesia capital city project resign, raising questions

By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) -The head and deputy head of the body overseeing Indonesia's planned new capital have unexpectedly resigned, raising questions about the $32 billion project. With

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I met Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in 2005. He told me he was an admirer of MK Gandhi

Shuttle diplomacy at a high level is indicated, along the lines of the famous Kissingerian shuttles following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

#ByeByeAP to #LuluBackInAP: Naidu’s moves to make Andhra ‘business friendly’ & woo back investors

The Jagan Reddy govt has been accused of scuppering various investment deals. Under Naidu, the govt, is trying to make AP a top investment destination, officials and industrialists say.

IAF chief AP Singh red-flags Tejas delay, says China ahead in technology & production capacity

Air force chief says HAL needs to churn out 24 aircraft per year. It is important for IAF to have indigenous weapons systems to deal with any security challenges, he says.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?