Jack Lew, the US ambassador to Israel hoped there would be no ‘real disagreement’ between the two countries following his country’s decision to hold back a bomb shipment as a warning not to ‘go into Rafah’.
The draft resolution, put forth by UAE, saw support of 143 of 193 member states while 9 countries, including US & Israel, voted against it, and 25 abstained.
Members of Ashoka University student body met representatives of management who told them that their demands were not under consideration for the time being, it is learnt.
Israel ordered Palestinians to evacuate parts of Rafah early Monday, apparently getting ready for a long-expected assault on Hamas militants holding out in the southern Gaza city.
Germany's ambassador to Pakistan, Alfred Grannas, lost his cool at students who heckled him at a Lahore event saying ‘his country was brutally abusing people speaking for rights of Palestinians’.
The region is on high alert anticipating an attack by Iran following the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria allegedly by Israeli warplanes on 1 April.
Expansion of nationalist movements, coupled with the belief that terrorism could be a viable means to achieve political aims, sowed seeds for militant ‘jihad’ in the Middle East.
Speaking at event in Delhi, UNGA President Dennis Francis said some UN personnel in war-torn Gaza even took their children to work when Israeli airstrikes were pounding enclave.
The question is no longer whether India can create fast tracks. It already has. The question is whether the main track—and the regulators who feed into it—can be fixed.
As Visakhapatnam readies a mega airport, the Andhra Pradesh government has revived its shelved Dagadarthi project, aiming to boost cargo and connectivity on the south coast.
Both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries are leaning on drones, but they’re also firing cruise and ballistic missiles, some of them relatively new and experimental.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
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