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Russian general killed by a car bomb just outside Moscow

A Russian general was killed by a car bomb Friday, Russia’s top criminal investigation agency said, in the second such attack on a top Russian military officer in four months that Moscow blamed on Ukraine. The committee said Lt Gen Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational department in the general staff of […]

Prez warns of military action if N-talks with Iran collapse

If an agreement with Iran to limit its nuclear programme proves elusive, the US could spearhead military action against it, President Donald Trump said in an interview published on Friday.Trump’s comments, in an interview with Time magazine marking his first three months in office, came as US and Iranian officials were set to meet for […]

10 Pakistan army personnel killed in Baloch IED attack in Quetta

Ten Pakistani army personnel were killed in an IED attack by Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) in Quetta on Friday. The IED blast targeted a convoy of the Pakistani army in Margat, a suburb of Quetta, leading to the casualties.BLA claimed responsibility for the attack, stating its fighters targeted the army convoy using a remote-controlled device. […]

‘Khalil was arrested without warrant’

Lawyers for Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil say they will argue that his deportation should be blocked after the Trump administration acknowledged he was arrested without a warrant. Govt said in a court filing Thursday ICE agents didn’t have a warrant when they took Khalil, who led anti-Israel protests, into custody in March outside a […]

Newsom: California is now world’s 4th-biggest economy, pips Japan

California governor Gavin Newsom boasted that his state has become the world’s fourth-largest economy, following only the US, China and Germany in global rankings.The state’s nominal GDP reached $4.1 trillion last year, edging past Japan’s $4.02 trillion, Newsom said, citing newly released IMF country-level data and preliminary state data from US Bureau of Economic Analysis. […]

Milwaukee judge arrested by FBI for allegedly helping man evade immigration authorities

FBI agents on Friday (local time) arrested Milwaukee county circuit court judge Hannah Dugan, accusing her of helping a man evade federal immigration agents in a courthouse incident that has sparked fresh tensions between the judiciary and the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.Dugan was charged with concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest, and […]

‘They’ll figure it out one way or another’: Donald Trump on India-Pakistan tensions after Pahalgam terror attack

US President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan following the deadly Pahalgam terror attacks said that the two nations will resolve the situation between themselves “one way or the other”. Speaking aboard Air Force One en route to Rome, Donald Trump downplayed the escalation and referred to the […]

Overlooked letter shows Shakespeare was not a neglectful husband

Any clue about William Shakespeare’s life usually excites scholars, but one piece of evidence had been neglected for decades. Now, a new analysis of that overlooked document seems to shatter a long-standing narrative about the Bard’s bad marriage.Shakespeare was 18 in 1582 when he married Anne Hathaway, daughter of a family friend in Stratford-upon-Avon, in […]

Pak defence minister admits his country harbours terror organisations, says it is to do ‘the West’s dirty work’

LONDON: Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Asif has admitted on Sky News that Pakistan harbours and funds terror organisations, saying that it has been “doing the West’s dirty work for decades”.He also said the Pakistan-based terror groups are “not multiple organisations” but “one single organisation religiously organised with different faces”.When asked by Sky’s Yalda Hakim on […]

Public opinion moulded India’s response to terror, Pak’s ‘tit-for-tat’ came through generals

ISLAMABAD: The manner of Pakistan’s tit-for-tat response to punitive diplomatic measures by India over the April 22 terrorist attack on tourists in J&K’s Pahalgam highlights deeper structural differences between the neighbours.India’s decision to slap a series of retaliatory costs on Pakistan for cross-border terrorism was framed at a meeting of elected representatives led by PM […]