Category: 3. World

  • Vatican notes ‘exchange of opinions’ over migrants, prisoners in meeting with Vance

    Vatican notes ‘exchange of opinions’ over migrants, prisoners in meeting with Vance


    New Delhi: Despite making up only about one-quarter of India’s overseas population, Indian nationals in Gulf states send almost 40 percent of the country’s bank remittances, the latest data shows.


    India’s diaspora is one of the largest, accounting for 35.4 million people, based on last month’s estimates submitted to parliament by Minister of State for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita.


    Members of the diaspora are a key source of India’s foreign…

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  • Trump administration makes major cuts to Native American boarding school research projects

    Trump administration makes major cuts to Native American boarding school research projects


    New Delhi: Despite making up only about one-quarter of India’s overseas population, Indian nationals in Gulf states send almost 40 percent of the country’s bank remittances, the latest data shows.


    India’s diaspora is one of the largest, accounting for 35.4 million people, based on last month’s estimates submitted to parliament by Minister of State for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita.


    Members of the diaspora are a key source of India’s foreign…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • Russia says Ukraine struck its energy infrastructure 10 times in last 24 hours

    Russia says Ukraine struck its energy infrastructure 10 times in last 24 hours


    MANILA: Philippines election hopefuls like mayoral candidate Kerwin Espinosa have to ask themselves whether the job is worth taking a bullet.

    The country’s elections commission, Comelec, recorded 46 acts of political violence between January 12 and April 11, including the shooting of Espinosa.

    At a rally this month, someone from the crowd fired a bullet that went through his chest and exited his arm, leaving him bleeding but alive.

    Others have been less…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • More than 100 inmates make deadly prison break in Chad

    More than 100 inmates make deadly prison break in Chad


    MANILA: Philippines election hopefuls like mayoral candidate Kerwin Espinosa have to ask themselves whether the job is worth taking a bullet.

    The country’s elections commission, Comelec, recorded 46 acts of political violence between January 12 and April 11, including the shooting of Espinosa.

    At a rally this month, someone from the crowd fired a bullet that went through his chest and exited his arm, leaving him bleeding but alive.

    Others have been less…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin announces an Easter ceasefire in Ukraine

    Russian President Vladimir Putin announces an Easter ceasefire in Ukraine

    MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday announced an Easter truce in the conflict in Ukraine starting this evening and lasting till midnight on Sunday.
    The short-term ceasefire proposal from Russia comes as President Donald Trump has been pressing both Moscow and Kyiv to agree a truce, but has failed to extract any major concessions from the Kremlin.
    “Today from 1800 (1500 GMT) to midnight Sunday (2100 GMT Sunday), the Russian side announces an Easter truce,” Putin said…

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  • Cambodia welcomes Japanese navy ships to naval base that US suspects is for China’s special use

    Cambodia welcomes Japanese navy ships to naval base that US suspects is for China’s special use


    MANILA: Philippines election hopefuls like mayoral candidate Kerwin Espinosa have to ask themselves whether the job is worth taking a bullet.

    The country’s elections commission, Comelec, recorded 46 acts of political violence between January 12 and April 11, including the shooting of Espinosa.

    At a rally this month, someone from the crowd fired a bullet that went through his chest and exited his arm, leaving him bleeding but alive.

    Others have been less…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • A US citizen was held for pickup by ICE even after proving he was born in the country

    A US citizen was held for pickup by ICE even after proving he was born in the country


    New Delhi: Despite making up only about one-quarter of India’s overseas population, Indian nationals in Gulf states send almost 40 percent of the country’s bank remittances, the latest data shows.


    India’s diaspora is one of the largest, accounting for 35.4 million people, based on last month’s estimates submitted to parliament by Minister of State for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita.


    Members of the diaspora are a key source of India’s foreign…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • Money, power, violence in high-stakes Philippine elections

    Money, power, violence in high-stakes Philippine elections

    MANILA: Philippines election hopefuls like mayoral candidate Kerwin Espinosa have to ask themselves whether the job is worth taking a bullet.
    The country’s elections commission, Comelec, recorded 46 acts of political violence between January 12 and April 11, including the shooting of Espinosa.
    At a rally this month, someone from the crowd fired a bullet that went through his chest and exited his arm, leaving him bleeding but alive.
    Others have been less lucky.

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • Afghan FM tells Pakistan’s top diplomat deportations are ‘disappointment’

    Afghan FM tells Pakistan’s top diplomat deportations are ‘disappointment’

    KABUL: Afghanistan’s foreign minister expressed “deep concern and disappointment” to his Pakistani counterpart on Saturday over the forced deportation of tens of thousands of Afghans since the start of April.
    Pakistan has launched a strict campaign to evict by the end of the month more than 800,000 Afghans who have had their residence permits canceled, including some who were born in Pakistan or lived there for decades.

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • Despite small diaspora share, Gulf-based Indians send home 40% of remittances

    Despite small diaspora share, Gulf-based Indians send home 40% of remittances

    New Delhi: Despite making up only about one-quarter of India’s overseas population, Indian nationals in Gulf states send almost 40 percent of the country’s bank remittances, the latest data shows.

    India’s diaspora is one of the largest, accounting for 35.4 million people, based on last month’s estimates submitted to parliament by Minister of State for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita.

    Members of the diaspora are a key source of India’s foreign currency inflows and, in the…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com