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UAE President receives credentials from foreign ambassadors
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan today received the credentials of a number of new foreign ambassadors alongside Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court
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There is no reason to over-torque this transit into anything escalatory: U
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
US State Department's Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel on Monday (local time) said that there is no reason to over-torque about Taiwan Vice President William Lai's transit through the United States into "anything escalatory."
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"Will never back down to China's threat": Taiwanese Vice President
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Despite Beijing's warning of his visit, Taiwan's vice president and a front-runner in Taiwan’s presidential race William Lai on Sunday said that the island will never yield in the face of escalating Chinese threats, CNN reported.
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China irked at Taiwan Vice President's "stopover" in New York
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Taiwan's vice president and presidential candidate William Lai's stopover in the US on Sunday en route to Paraguay irked China, denouncing the move, its foreign ministry branded him a "troublemaker through and through," according to CNN.
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Guatemala prepares to hold its troubled presidential election
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Current momentum appears to be behind the former diplomat. Arévalo is seen as a pragmatist from the centre-left Movimiento Semilla party, which he co-founded in 2017, and may be able to tap into widespread discontent against the current political class. His father, Juan José Arévalo, was Gua
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Niger's ousted president deprived of "all human contact”
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Mohamed Bazoum, who was ousted in a coup d’etat by the presidential guard, said he has been deprived of all human contact and was given just dry rice and pasta by the military junta
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Six Colombians arrested over Ecuadorian presidential candidate assassinati
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The revelation that the suspects are Colombian is reminiscent of the assassination of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, in July 2021, in a plot that ensnared at least 18 Colombians who remain jailed in Haiti awaiting trial. The Colombians are accused of assisting in the operation to kill the
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Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio shot dead in Quit
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Fernando Villavicencio, aged 59, was shot several times as he left the rally at a high school in Quito, General Manuel Iniguez, a deputy commander of the Ecuadorean national police said, according to The Washington Post.
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Trump vows to launch 'largest domestic deportation operation’ if elected
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
US former President Donald Trump, on Tuesday, said that if he is elected again then will use all necessary state, local, federal, and military resources to carry out the 'largest domestic deportation operation in American history'.
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Niger: As Junta holds onto control, hopes for dialogue fade
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The junta also named a new head to the country’s presidential guard, the unit tasked with protecting Bazoum but which detained him last month. General Tchiani, who led the unit at the time of the coup, now appears to be in charge of the country, The New York Times reported.
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Niger military sends reinforcements to capital
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Niger has been engulfed in political chaos since late last month when President Mohamed Bazoum was ousted in a coup d’etat by the presidential guard. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) responded days later by enacting sanctions and issuing an ultimatum to the ruling milit
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Niger: Acting US deputy secretary of state Victoria Nuland meets junta mem
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Nuland is the highest level US official to meet in person with the military putschists. Her trip to the capital city of Niamey – made at the request of Secretary of State Antony Blinken – comes less than two weeks after members of Niger’s presidential guard seized power and a day after the d
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