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17 Apr 2025 | 6:00 PMIslamabad/New Delhi, Apr 17 (UNI) Spouting the usual anti-India rhetoric, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff Gen Asim Munir expressed his staunch support for the ‘Two Nation Theory’, and described the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir as Pakistan’s “jugular vein".
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17 Apr 2025 | 5:11 PMKathmandu, Apr 17 (UNI) Nepal has issued permits to 704 climbers, including 156 females, for ascending 21 mountains in the country during the spring climbing season which runs through May, an official said on Thursday.
see more..17 Apr 2025 | 4:59 PMKabul, Apr 17 (UNI) Afghan security forces have smashed three clandestine drug processing labs and discovered over 1,100 kg of illicit drugs in western Afghanistan's Ghor province, the office of the Deputy Minister of Interior for Counter-Narcotics said in a statement on Thursday.
see more.. 17 Apr 2025 | 4:57 PMAnkara, Apr 17 (UNI) Turkish authorities on Thursday detained 525 individuals in an anti-narcotics operation in the capital Ankara, marking "the largest drug crackdown" in the nation's history, according to Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya.
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17 Apr 2025 | 4:40 PMDhaka, Apr 17 (UNI) Though unhappy after their meeting with Chief Advisor Mohd Yunus to discuss the election roadmap and grievances, a delegation from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) joined the ongoing dialogue with the National Consensus Commission (NCC) today to discuss reforms undertaken by the Interim Government.
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17 Apr 2025 | 4:27 PMKabul, Apr 17 (UNI) A total of 1,072 Afghan families comprising 5,671 people returned to their homeland from neighbouring Iran and Pakistan on Wednesday, Afghanistan's High Commission for Addressing Returnees Problems said in a statement Thursday.
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17 Apr 2025 | 3:51 PMMoscow, Apr 17 (UNI) European Union (EU) trade negotiators hope that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s trip to Washington and her meeting with US President Donald Trump can shed light on the US tariffs demands, The Financial Times reported on Thursday.
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17 Apr 2025 | 3:40 PMTehran, Apr 17 (UNI) Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Thursday that he plans to discuss the US-Iranian talks on Tehran's nuclear program with the Russian side during his visit to Moscow.
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17 Apr 2025 | 3:04 PMDhaka/Islamabad, Apr 17 (UNI) Bangladesh and Pakistan held their first Foreign Secretary-level talks in 15 years, as Pakistan's FS Amna Baloch met with her Bangladeshi counterpart Md Jashim Uddin in Dhaka today.
see more..17 Apr 2025 | 2:19 PMSacramento, US, Apr 17 (UNI) California, along with a coalition of 21 other US states, is challenging the federal government's sweeping changes to the Social Security Administration (SSA), arguing that the cuts harm millions of Americans who rely on the programme for basic income and essential services.
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17 Apr 2025 | 2:03 PMTehran, Apr 17 (UNI) Rome will be the venue for the second round of indirect negotiations between Tehran and Washington, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi has said.
see more..17 Apr 2025 | 12:50 PMPyongyang, Apr 17 (UNI) North Korea will respond to Washington's provocative deployment of strategic bombers over the Korean Peninsula by raising the "level of danger" to the United States, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday, citing the North Korean Defense Ministry.
see more.. 17 Apr 2025 | 12:46 PMBeijing, Apr 17 (UNI) The Taiwanese Defense Ministry said on Thursday that they had detected 34 aircraft and 6 vessels of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) over the past 24 hours.
see more.. 17 Apr 2025 | 12:37 PMJerusalem, Apr 17 (UNI) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday instructed Israeli negotiators to "continue the steps" for the release of hostages still held in Gaza, his office said, as efforts to revive the ceasefire appeared to be stalled.
see more.. 17 Apr 2025 | 12:32 PMWashington, Apr 17 (UNI) The trade war initiated by US President Donald Trump could cost Germany 290 billion euros ($330 billion) by 2028, equivalent to an annual loss of 1.6% of the country's GDP, the Handelsblatt newspaper reported, citing a study by the German Economic Institute (IW).
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