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India, China agree to de-escalate border tensions

NEW DELHI, Oct 21 (BBC): India and China have agreed on patrolling arrangements to de-escalate tensions along their disputed Himalayan border, India's top diplomat has said.Vikram Misri said on Monday that the two sides have agreed on "disengagement and resolution of issues in these [border] areas that had arisen in...

UN resolution basis for Lebanon truce: US

BEIRUT, Oct 21 (AFP/ Reuters/ AP): Visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein said Monday the basis of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was a 2006 United Nations resolution but that it would require full implementation.United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 states that only the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers should...

Blinken back to ME to push for Gaza truce

NEW YORK, Oct 21 (AFP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads back to the Middle East Monday on a new push for an elusive Gaza ceasefire two weeks before US elections, seeing a new opportunity from Israel's killing of Hamas's leader.It will be the 11th trip to the Middle...

Indonesian leader forms largest cabinet in decades

JAKARTA, Oct 21 (BBC): Former military general Prabowo Subianto has been sworn in as Indonesia's president, as he announced the country's largest cabinet since the 1960s.The 73-year-old, who had been dogged by allegations of human rights abuse for decades, was inagurated on Sunday as the country's eighth president.This spells the...

Not my King, Australian senator shouts at Charles

CANBERRA, Oct 21 (BBC): King Charles faced shouts of "you are not my King" from an independent senator just after he finished an address at Australia's Parliament House on the second official day of his engagements in the country.Lidia Thorpe, an Aboriginal Australian woman, interrupted the ceremony in the capital...

Gunmen kill seven working on tunnel project in Kashmir

SRINAGAR, Oct 21 (AP): Gunmen fatally shot at least seven people working on a strategic tunnel project in Indian-controlled Kashmir and injured at least five others, officials said on Monday.Police blamed militants who have been fighting against Indian rule for decades for the "terror attack" at a camp for construction...