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President Macron invites former Lebanon PM to France
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Paris [France], November 16 (ANI): French President Emmanuel Macron has invited Lebanon's former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and his family to France in a bid to defuse tensions in the Middle East.
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Pentagon chief Mattis visits Korean DMZ, says 'war is not our goal'
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Pyongyang [North Korea], October 27 (ANI): United States Defense Secretary James Mattis on Friday morning visited the heavily fortified border between North Korea and South Korea known as the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) amid heightened tensions over the North's nuclear programme.
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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a source of regional tensions, warns U
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington, D.C. [U.S.A.], October 15 (ANI): The China - Pakistan Economic Corridor or the CPEC is going to further escalate regional tensions according to an expert who has served with the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army's War College in Washington, DC.
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Spain's third largest bank to exit Catalonia
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
London [U.K.], Oct.7 (ANI): Spain's third largest bank will move its headquarters from Catalonia due to increased tensions post voting on an independence referendum.
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Tensions run high as Catalonia prepares for disputed independence vote
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Catalonia [Spain], October 1 (ANI): Multitudes of supporters of Catalan independence maintained their standoff with the Spanish government on Saturday as they prepared to hold a fiercely disputed referendum.
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Khawaja Asif to meet Tillerson to defuse tensions between Pak, US
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], September 30 (ANI): Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif will meet U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Washington D.C. on Wednesday to resume bilateral talks and to discuss ways to remove tensions that cropped up after United States President Donald Tr
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Shiv Sena corners PM Modi over BHU violence
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 26 (ANI): The Shiv Sena on Tuesday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the ongoing tensions in Varanasi's Banaras Hindu University (BHU).
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Austria, Germany backs France over boycotting Winter Olympics in South Kor
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Paris [France], Sept.24 (ANI): With tensions over the Korean Peninsula mounting, Austria and Germany have joined France to boycott the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, citing safety concerns over threats from nuclear-armed Pyongyang.
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US, Russian diplomats to hold talks in Helsinki
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D. C. [U.S.A], September 10 (ANI): U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Thomas Shannon will hold talks with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov in Helsinki, Finland on Sunday in a bid to calm down diplomatic tensions and to address areas of bilateral con
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Japan urges Russia to collaborate against N Korea
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Sep 6 (ANI): Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe has urged Russia to collaborate against the policies pursued by North Korea to help scale down the current tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
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Kim Jong Un inspects loading of Hydrogen bomb into ICBM
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D. C. [U.S.A.], September 3 (ANI) :North Korea has succeeded in making a more developed nuke as Kim Jong Un inspected the loading of a hydrogen bomb into a new intercontinental ballistic missile, thus marking a sharp escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula.
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US, North Korea maintaining back channel diplomatic talks
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [U.S.], August 12 (ANI): Apart from issuing threats to North Korea, United States President Donald Trump's administration has been maintaining direct back-channel diplomatic talks with North Korean regime to defuse the tensions over Pyongyang's missile tests and nuclear pr
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