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How Gulf ties became key focus of India’s foreign policy over past decade

kashaf.rehman — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:26:50 +0000

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Ties with Gulf countries have become a key focus of India’s foreign policy over the past 10 years, the latest report by the Council for Strategic and Defense Research shows, highlighting New Delhi’s special focus on ��Ƶ and the UAE.

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How Gulf ties became key focus of India’s foreign policy over past decade

shounaz.mekky — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:09:54 +0000

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Ties with Gulf countries have become a key focus of India’s foreign policy over the past 10 years, the latest report by the Council for Strategic and Defence Research shows, highlighting New Delhi’s special focus on ��Ƶ and the UAE.

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Don’t let deep sea become ‘wild west’, Guterres tells world leaders

rbksa — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:30:31 +0000

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NICE: United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday the world could not let the deepest oceans “become the wild west,” at the start in France of a global summit on the seas.
World leaders are attending the UN Ocean Conference in Nice as nations tussle over contentious rules on mining the seabed for critical minerals and the terms of a global treaty on plastic pollution.

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Italians head to polls in referendum on citizenship and labor, but vote risks sinking on low turnout

Peter Harrison — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 09:14:14 +0000

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ROME: Italians headed to the polls Monday on the second and final day of referendums that would make it easier for children born in Italy to foreigners to obtain citizenship, and on providing more job protections. But partial data showed a low turnout, well below the required 50 percent plus one threshold, risking to invalidate the vote.

Campaigners for the change in the citizenship law say it will help second-generation Italians born in the country to non- European Union parents better integrate into a culture they already see as theirs.

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Ukraine says Russia launched 479 drones in the war’s biggest overnight drone bombardment

rbksa — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 08:51:52 +0000

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KYIV, Ukraine: Russia launched 479 drones at Ukraine in the war ‘s biggest overnight drone bombardment, the Ukrainian air force said Monday.

Apart from drones, 20 missiles of various types were fired at different parts of Ukraine, according to the air force, which said the barrage targeted mainly central and western areas of Ukraine.

Ukraine’s air defenses destroyed 277 drones and 19 missiles in mid-flight, an air force statement said, claiming that only 10 drones or missiles hit their target.

It was not possible to independently verify the claim.

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‘Better if he was dead’: Kenyan mother’s search for son year after protests

rbksa — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:35:04 +0000

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NAIROBI: Susan Wangari has lost count of the morgues, hospitals and police stations she has visited in search of her son, who went missing at the height of Kenya’s mass protests last June.
She last saw Emmanuel Mukuria, 24, on the morning of June 25, 2024, the day that thousands of Kenyan youths thronged the streets of Nairobi and stormed parliament in protest at planned tax rises and corruption.
“It would be better if my son were dead; at least I could visit his grave,” she told AFP.

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As the UN Ocean Conference opens in France, a push to turn promises into protection

rbksa — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:29:07 +0000

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NICE:The third UN Ocean Conference opens Monday as pressure mounts for nations to turn decades of promises into real protection for the sea.
The summit comes as just 2.7 percent of the ocean is effectively protected from destructive extractive activities, according to the nonprofit Marine Conservation Institute. That’s far below the target agreed under the “30x30” pledge to conserve 30 percent of land and sea by 2030.

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Malaysia bus crash kills at least 15, mostly students

rbksa — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:28:00 +0000

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KUALA LUMPUR: A bus carrying university students back to their campus smashed into a minivan in northern Malaysia on Monday, killing at least 15 people, police and rescue services said.
Thirteen victims died at the scene near the town of Gerik, on the busy East-West Highway near the Thai border, while two died in hospital.
The accident is the deadliest in more than a decade on Malaysia’s hazardous roads.
“It looked like the bus had lost control and hit the (minivan) from behind,” Perak State Police Chief Hisam Nordin said.

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Climate change heightens risk of Indian farmer suicides

rbksa — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:21:53 +0000

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BEED: On a small farm in India’s Maharashtra state, Mirabai Khindkar said the only thing her land grew was debt, after crops failed in drought and her husband killed himself.
Farmer suicides have a long history in India, where many are one crop failure away from disaster, but extreme weather caused by climate change is adding fresh pressure.
Dwindling yields due to water shortages, floods, rising temperatures and erratic rainfall, coupled with crippling debt, have taken a heavy toll on a sector that employs 45 percent of India’s 1.4 billion people.

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Explosion at a US air base in southern Japan injures at least 1 Japanese soldier

rbksa — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 04:37:19 +0000

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An explosion at or near a US military base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa injured at least one Japanese soldier but the injury is not life threatening, Japanese defense officials said Monday.
The Self Defense Force's joint staff said they are looking into reports of an explosion at Kadena Air Base that occurred while a team of Japanese soldiers that specializes in handling unexploded ordnance was working near or at the base.
The SDF said they are trying to confirm the cause of the accident and where it occurred.

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NATO chief urges 400 percent increase in alliance’s air defense

romulo — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 03:36:45 +0000

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BRUSSELS, Belgium: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday was due to urge a “400-percent increase” in the transatlantic alliance’s air and missile defense capacities in response to the threat from Russia.
“We see in Ukraine how Russia delivers terror from above, so we will strengthen the shield that protects our skies. Our militaries also need thousands more armored vehicles and tanks, millions more artillery shells,” Rutte was due to say in a speech to the Chatham House think-tank in London, according to comments quoted in a statement.

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US troops make first detentions in Trump border military zones

Sajjadkk — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:42:41 +0000

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US troops have made their first detentions inside military areas set up on the US-Mexico border as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, the US Army said.
The unprecedented military areas along 260 miles (418 km) of border in New Mexico and Texas were declared extensions of US Army bases by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, allowing troops to temporarily detain migrants and other civilian trespassers.

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Protests intensify in Los Angeles after Trump deploys hundreds of National Guard troops

rbksa — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:41:41 +0000

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LOS ANGELES: Tensions in Los Angeles escalated Sunday as thousands of protesters took to the streets in response to President Donald Trump’s extraordinary deployment of the National Guard, blocking off a major freeway and setting self-driving cars on fire as law enforcement used tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash bangs to control the crowd.

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US Speaker Mike Johnson downplays Musk’s influence, says Republicans will pass Trump’s tax and budget bill

romulo — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:35:19 +0000

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With an uncharacteristically feistiness, Speaker Mike Johnson took clear sides Sunday in President Donald Trump’s breakup with mega-billionaire Elon Musk.
The Republican House leader and staunch Trump ally said Musk’s criticism of the GOP’s massive tax and budget policy bill will not derail the measure, and he downplayed Musk’s influence over the GOP-controlled Congress.

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Trump banned citizens of 12 countries from entering the US. Here’s what to know

Sajjadkk — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 21:54:17 +0000

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DAKAR, Senegal: President Donald Trump has banned citizens of 12 countries from entering the United States and restricted access for those from seven others, citing national security concerns in resurrecting and expanding a hallmark policy from his first term that will mostly affect people from Africa and the Middle East.

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