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Indian Navy Executes OP Sankalp

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Indian Navy has deployed, in the Gulf of Oman, to re-assure Indian Flagged Vessels operating/ transiting through Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman following the maritime security incidents in the region. IN Ships Chennai and Sunayna have been deployed in the Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf to undertake Maritime Security operations. In addition, aerial surveillance by IN aircraft is ...

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Trump launches 2020 re-election bid with slogan “Keep America Great”

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US President Donald Trump formally launched his 2020 re-election campaign with a jam-packed rally in Florida on Tuesday, urging his supporters to “keep this team in place” for four more years as he vowed to “Keep America Great”. The 73-year-old real estate investor-turned-politician, who became the 45th President of the United States of America in 2017, told a crowd of ...

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Family of Indian origin IT professional found dead in US

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Indian-American IT professional Chandrashekhar Sunkara (44), along with his family, was found dead in his home located in Iowa in the US. Chandrashekhar and his wife Lavania Sunkara (41) and their two sons aged 10 and 15 were with bullets on their bodies. On Saturday morning, the death of this family was reported to the police. The West Des Moines ...

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UK judge sets February 2020 for Assange extradition hearing

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A British judge on Friday scheduled a full extradition hearing to begin in February next year for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is wanted in the United States on espionage charges. Assange, 47, is accused of violating the Espionage Act by releasing a vast trove of classified military and diplomatic files in 2010 about US bombing campaigns in Afghanistan and ...

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China going to make trade deal with US: Trump

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US President Donald Trump said China will be left with no other option but to enter into a trade deal with the United States because his increased tariffs on Chinese products is having an impact on its economy. “The China deal is going to work out. You know why, because of tariffs, because right now China is getting absolutely decimated ...

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US Preisdent critical of pollution levels in India, China and Russia

US President Donald Trump has put all allegations on climate change on the last day of his visit to India, China and Russia. At the same time he stressed that America has the cleanest climate. During a TV interview, he was asked about the meeting with Prince Charles, a member of the British royal family, about these things. Trump said ...

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Trump turns to trade talks on UK state visit

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US President Donald Trump meets outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday for trade-centred talks during his state visit to Britain, with protesters set to gather outside the gates. After a glittering banquet thrown by Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, the second day of Trump’s trip turns from pomp and ceremony to politics and business. The president’s three-day visit — ...

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Pak extends closure of airspace along India border till June 15

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Pakistan has further extended the closure of its airspace along its eastern border with India until June 15, according to the country’s civil aviation authority. Pakistan fully closed its airspace in February after an Indian Air Force strike on a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror camp in Balakot. The country opened its airspace for all flights except for New Delhi, Bangkok and ...

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US walks out of UN arms control body in Venezuela protest

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The United States on Tuesday walked out of the UN’s Conference on Disarmament as Venezuela assumed the body’s rotating presidency, with Washington’s envoy insisting he would not endure sessions led by “a rogue state.” “What you have going on inside there right now is a diatribe of propaganda,” the US ambassador to the conference, Robert Wood, told reporters outside the ...

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Cops nab Eiffel Tower climber who sparked evacuation

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A climber who sparked an evacuation of the Eiffel Tower on Monday was grabbed after clinging to the famous Paris landmark for more than six hours, officials said. The man, who was not immediately identified, “is in the hands of the emergency teams” deployed to the tower, which will reopen to visitors as normal early on Tuesday, the company operating ...

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