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July 29 ,2020
The US peace envoy Khalilzad visited Oslo, Norway on July 25-27 and met with Foreign Minister Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide an...
TRUMP AGAIN PUSHES HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AS COVID-19 TREATMEN...
July 29 ,2020
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July 29 ,2020
The Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada in his Eid-al-Adha message once again referred to the aim of establishing an "Islamic...
HEAD OF CHINA'S CDC GETS INJECTED WITH EXPERIMENTAL COVID-...
July 29 ,2020
The head of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention says he has been injected with an experimental coronavirus vaccine in...
MUMBAI SURVEY FINDS 57% HAVE HAD COVID-19 IN SLUMS, 16% IN...
July 29 ,2020
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Biden vs Trump foreign policy
July 29 ,2020
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China halts Hong Kong extradition treaties with Canada, Au...
July 29 ,2020
China announced Tuesday (July 28) the suspension of Hong Kong’s extradition treaties with Canada, Australia and Britain, a tit-fo...
Xi vows to revamp AIIB as model for multilateral cooperati...
July 29 ,2020
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‘King of battlefield’: Pakistan adds Al-Khalid Tank-I to i...
July 29 ,2020
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Indian Navy deploys large number of ships in Indian Ocean...
July 29 ,2020
Amid the stand-off with China in Ladakh, the Indian Navy has deployed a large number of ships under the Eastern and and Western Naval C...
Pakistan, Bangladesh rapprochement?
July 29 ,2020
PM Imran Khan and his Bangladeshi counterpart Shaikh Hasina
The Prime Ministers of Pakistan and Bangladesh recently spoke by tele...
Winter is coming and China-India border dispute shows no s...
July 29 ,2020
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Why is China offering a 'package solution' to Bhutan to so...
July 29 ,2020
Last week, China reiterated its claims over Bhutan's eastern sector but offered an olive branch by proposing a “package solution&...
Potential China-Iran pact has major implications for Pakis...
July 29 ,2020
After an 18-page draft agreement of an economic and security partnership between Iran and China was leaked earlier this month, there ha...
India eases rules for security forces to acquire land in K...
July 29 ,2020
India's Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel
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China holds meeting with Pakistan, Nepal and Afghanistan a...
July 29 ,2020
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi
China has hosted its first-ever quadrilateral meeting with foreign ministers from Pakistan, Nepa...
Bangladesh fears loss of trust amid fake coronavirus test...
July 29 ,2020
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Coronavirus: South Asia animal sellers go online for Eid a...
July 29 ,2020
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Beijing says troops disengaged on most of China-India bord...
July 29 ,2020
Wang Wenbin
Chinese and Indian troops have "completed disengagement" on most parts of the disputed border between their two countr...
Covid test report: Where female becomes male and her husba...
July 29 ,2020
The Bangladesh-origin UK citizen couple Dilruba Zaman and Mr Akhtaruzzaman spent a sleepless night on July 24 as one of them had...
New face at Myanmar’s at military-controlled border Affair...
July 29 ,2020
Major General Phone Myat, the outgoing chief of Myanmar military’s Western Command which oversees Rakhine State, has been appoint...
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Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
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