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Israeli PM pledges to occupy Jordan Valley if re-elected

Shawdesh Desk: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a deeply controversial pledge on Tuesday to annex the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank if re-elected in September 17 polls.

Indian police kill Kashmir ‘extremist’

Shawdesh Desk: Security forces in Indian Kashmir shot dead on Wednesday a suspected member of a Pakistan-based extremist group who was accused of attacking the family of a fruit trader,

Restrictions lifted from most areas of Kashmir

Shawdesh Desk: Restrictions were lifted from most areas of Kashmir, except some parts of Srinagar, on Monday even as the stalemate in the Valley following abrogation of Article 370 entered

North Korea ‘willing to restart’ US nuclear talks

Shawdesh Desk: North Korea is willing to restart denuclearisation talks with the United States later this month, the country’s vice foreign minister has said. Choe Son-hui said they were willing

29 killed in two attacks in Burkina Faso

shawdesh Desk: At least 29 people were killed in two attacks in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday, in a region prone to jihadist violence, the government said. One vehicle transporting

British Airways pilots ground planes in unprecedented 48-hour strike

shawdesh Desk: British Airways pilots began a 48-hour strike on Monday, grounding most of the airline’s flights and disrupting thousands of travellers’ plans in unprecedented industrial action over a pay

India imposes curfews in Kashmir after clashes during religious procession

Shawdesh Desk: India on Sunday imposed curfews in several parts of the contested Kashmir region, after clashes between security forces and Shi’ite Muslims taking part in a procession, officials and

UK senior minister Amber Rudd quits amid Brexit crisis

Shawdesh Desk: United Kingdom prime minister Boris Johnson received a fresh blow Saturday when senior minister Amber Rudd quit her work and pensions post in protest at his handling of