IRAN'S QASSEM SOLEIMANI KILLED IN US AIR RAID AT BAGHDAD A...
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC's) Quds Force, and architect of its regional security appa...
PARLIAMENT CONVENES UNDER NEWLY APPOINTED PRESIDENT
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
The 4th session of the 8th Parliament of Sri Lanka convened today under newly appointed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Parliament was prorogued by an...
PAKISTAN CONDEMNS INDIAN ARMY CHIEF’S IRRESPONSIBLE STATEM...
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
Pakistan on Thursday condemned the irresponsible statement of newly appointed Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane about carrying out &ldqu...
MEHBOOBA MUFTI’S DAUGHTER ILTIJA ‘DETAINED’ IN SRINAGAR HO...
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
Speaking to ThePrint, Iltija said she had been detained by her security team, handled by the J&K Police’s Special Security Group, after she...
INDIA SAYS IT HASN’T REVISED BOUNDARIES WITH NEPAL IN NEW...
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
India on Thursday said the new map issued by it in November 2019 accurately depicts its sovereign territory and it has in no manner revised its bounda...
445 BANGLADESHIS BACK FROM INDIA IN LAST 2 MONTHS: BGB CHI...
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
A total of 445 Bangladeshi nationals returned from India in last two months following the National Register of Citizens (NRC) published by the Indian...
‘STEP-MOTHERLY TREATMENT’, ‘PREJUDICED’: WEST BENGAL, MAHA...
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
West Bengal and Maharashtra on Thursday accused the Centre of “step-motherly treatment” for rejecting their proposed tableau for the upcom...
TALIBAN AGREES TO SHORT-TERM REDUCTION OF VIOLENCE: SOURCE
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
The Taliban’s leadership will commit to reduce violence once a peace deal is signed with the US, said sources close to the group on Thursday ami...
How CAA and NRC affect India-Bangladesh ties
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
Under the Narendra Modi government, India and Bangladesh have made strong progress.
Five years ago, a landmark boundary agreement was signed. It sett...
Turkey's parliament approves military deployment to Libya
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
Turkey's parliament has approved a bill to deploy troops to Libya in support of the embattled United Nations-recognised Government of National Accord...
Putin’s Russia, twenty years on
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
Twenty years ago, on December 31, 2019, resigning Russian President Boris Yeltsin (R) tapped then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) to be his successo...
Taiwan Army Chief dies in a helicopter crash
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
Taiwan’s Chief of Military Staff Shen Yi-ming and seven other people lost their lives in a helicopter crash in Taiwan’s mountainous area o...
US combat deaths in Afghanistan highest in years
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
Seventeen service members died in Afghanistan in 2019, the highest number since 2015, according to a year-end tally compiled by the Department of Defe...
Three Myanmar cities win Asean Clean Tourist City awards
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
Shan State’s Taunggyi, Kayah State’s Loikaw and Tanintharyi Region’s Dawei will receive the Asean Clean Tourist City Standard award,...
India, Nepal to hold talks on Kalapani border issue
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
Nepal and India will resolve the Kalapani border issue through dialogue, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday. At the weekly press intera...
Abu Dhabi crown prince, Pakistan premier discuss ties
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan met Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad on Thursday to discuss “ways to e...
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Luo Zhaohui meets with outgo...
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Luo Zhaohui met with outgoing Sri Lankan Ambassador to China Karunasena Kodituwakku On December 30, 2019, Chinese Minist...
CAA-NRC: Indian Muslims have broken the spell
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
Protesters gather for a demonstration against India's citizenship law, at a rally in Kochi in southern Kerala state on January 1, 2020.
As th...
Nepal-China Transit Protocol to come into effect from Feb
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Nepali President Bidya Devi Bhandari
Ten months after signing the Protocol on Implementing the Agreement on...
BANGLADESH TO EMERGE AS 25TH LARGEST ECONOMY IN 2034: CEBR
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladesh will climb from the 40th place in the World economic league table in 2020 to 25th by 2034 if the economy grows at around 7.3 per cent for n...
UAE EXTENDS $200M AID TO PAKISTAN FOR ECONOMIC PROJECTS
January 3, 2020
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By: SAM Staff
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan undertook a daylong visit to Islamabad on Thursday and held wide-ranging talks with Prime Mi...
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