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India’s top court frees Rajiv Gandhi’s killers

NEW DELHI, Nov 11 (AFP): India's top court Friday ordered the release of six people convicted over the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.Gandhi was 46 when he was killed by a woman suicide bomber at an election rally in the southern state of Tamil Nadu in 1991.The assassination...

Taiwan high on agenda for Chinese, US leaders

BEIJING, Nov 11 (BBC): Taiwan is expected to top the agenda when US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet next week - their first in-person encounter since Mr Biden took office in 2020.The much-awaited meeting comes at a time when relations between the two superpowers have particularly...

ASEAN agrees to talk to Myanmar opposition

PHNOM PENH, Nov 11 (AFP): Southeast Asian leaders agreed Friday to engage Myanmar opposition groups as they seek ways to quell the country's escalating bloodshed which has seen thousands killed in clashes since last year's coup.The Myanmar crisis dominated the first day of a gathering of the Association of Southeast...

Italy PM slams 'aggressive' France response in migrant row

ROME, Nov 11 (AFP): Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday condemned what she called the "aggressive reaction" of the French government to taking in a migrant rescue vessel rejected by Rome.Paris accepted the Ocean Viking and the 234 migrants onboard, but in return said it would suspend a previous...

Russia pulls troops out of Ukraine’s Kherson

MOSCOW, Nov 11 (Reuters/AFP): Moscow announced on Friday that its forces had completed their withdrawal from the strategic Ukrainian city of Kherson after Ukraine said it had reclaimed dozens of landmine-littered settlements abandoned by the Russians in the south.The Russian defence ministry said it had finished the pullout of troops...

Shooting in gang-plagued Mexican state leaves 9 dead

A shooting left nine dead and two wounded at a bar in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, which has increasingly suffered from cartel violence, local authorities said Thursday, reports Reuters.An armed group arrived at the bar around 9 pm Wednesday in the town of Apaseo el Alto, outside of...

News in brief -(2022-11-12)

Tsunami warning after magnitude-7.1 quake near TongaSYDNEY, Nov 11: A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck in the sea off Tonga late Friday, according to the US Geological Survey, sparking a tsunami warning. According to the USGS, the earthquake hit 10 km (six miles) deep, about 200 km southeast of Neiafu, a town...