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FRANCE (Web Desk) French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said attacks on Myanmar’s Rohingya minority amounted to “genocide.France will work with other members of the UN Security Council for a condemnation of “this genocide which is unfolding, this ethnic cleansing”, Macron said in an interview with the French TV channel …

LONDON (Web Desk) Two men were arrested on Wednesday over last week’s London Underground terror attack in which 30 people were injured, bringing the total number of people in custody to five, police said.The men, aged 48 and 30, were arrested under anti-terrorism legislation in Newport in Wales, police said …

NEW YORK (Web Desk) The United States will contribute nearly $32 million in humanitarian aid to help Rohingya Mus­lim refugees, the State Dep­art­ment said Wednesday, in the Trump administration’s first major response to the mass exodus from Myanmar.The new money for food, medical care, water, sanitation and shelter comes as …

NEW YORK (Web Desk) Pakistan’s relationship with the United States is 70 years strong and it is not defined by the conflict in Afghanistan alone, said Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi while speaking at Washington’s Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) think tank on Wednesday.Abbasi’s visit to New York to attend …

WASHINGTON (Web Desk) The Republican National Committee (RNC) has spent almost $200,000 on legal fees for President Donald Trump’s eldest son in connection with the investigation into alleged intervention int the 2016 presidential election by Russia.According to Politico, $166,000 from the committee’s legal proceedings account went to Alan Futerfas, who …

TOKYO (Web Desk) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says time for talks with North Korea has come to an end, calling for exerting “pressure” on Pyongyang over its missile and nuclear programs.There is not much time left” to engage with North Korea, Abe said while addressing the UN General Assembly …

MOSCOW (Web Desk) Russia’s General Staff says about 850 Takfiri militants have been killed as the Syrian forces, backed by Russian warplanes, repelled an attack by militants in a “de-escalation zone” in the Syrian province of Idlib.The Russian General Staff said in a statement on Wednesday that the Jabhat Fateh …

NEW YORK (Web Desk) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has dismissed prospects for engaging in negotiations with the United States, saying doing so would be a “waste of time” as Washington does not honor its commitments.At a presser after his speech at the 72nd UN General Assembly in New York, Rouhani …

NEW YORK (Web Desk) US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has admitted that Tehran is in “technical compliance” with the 2015 nuclear agreement reached between Iran and six other countries, including the United States.Tillerson made the remarks on Wednesday after he and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met as …

GENEVA (Web Desk) Denmark’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva reiterated his government’s call for the release of prominent Bahraini human rights defender, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja.We reiterate our call for … release of all arbitrarily detained persons in Bahrain, including the Danish-Bahraini citizen Mr. Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja a victim of …