US, Russia clash at UN over Syria chlorine attacks
BEIRUT, Feb 06 (AFP): The death toll from Syrian regime air strikes on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus on Tuesday has risen to 33, a monitoring group said.Strikes on several locations in the besieged area east of the capital also wounded more than 100 people, the Syrian...
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Gunmen kill officers, free militant
SRINAGAR, Feb 06 (AFP): Two gunmen opened fire Tuesday in a hospital in India-administered Kashmir where a Pakistani militant was brought for treatment, escaping with the high-profile prisoner and killing two police officers.A manhunt is underway after the attackers stormed the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital in Srinagar and opened...
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Maldives opposition calls for Indian intervention
MALE, Feb 06 (Reuters): An exiled former president of the Maldives urged India on Tuesday to send an envoy backed by military to release political detainees after the government of the Indian Ocean archipelago imposed a state of emergency and arrested two senior judges.Having defied the court ruling, President Abdulla...
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China urges Pakistan to solve Chinese citizen's killing
BEIJING, Feb 06 (AFP): China on Tuesday urged Pakistan to rapidly bring perpetrators to justice after unidentified gunmen shot at two Chinese nationals in the southern city of Karachi, killing one of them.The two Chinese were in their car in an upmarket area on Monday when the attackers in another...
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UN chief warns of 'one-state reality' in Middle East
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 06 (AFP): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that recent developments in the Middle East could create "an irreversible one-state reality" that would bury the two-state solution of a Palestinian state alongside Israel."Negative trends on the ground have the potential to create an irreversible one-state reality that...
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