NEW DELHI, (APP/AFP) – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Iran this week, seeking to boost trade with the oil-rich country after international sanctions were lifted this year, it was announced Tuesday. Iran was India’s second largest supplier of crude oil until 2011/12, when sanctions forced New Delhi to reduce its dependence on the […]
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Two killed in Karabakh after Armenia, Azerbaijan agree to respect ceasefire
YEREVAN, (APP/AFP): An Azerbaijani soldier and an ethnic Armenian soldier of the breakaway Nagorny Karabakh region’s army died in fresh clashes on Tuesday, hours after Baku and Yerevan agreed to respect a ceasefire in the disputed territory. It was their first confrontation since fierce fighting in Karabakh claimed the lives of at least 110 people […]
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Mideast conference in Paris May 30 postponed: Hollande
PARIS, (APP/AFP) – A conference on the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians, due to be held on May 30 in Paris, has been postponed, French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday. “(US Secretary of State) John Kerry cannot come on May 30 so it has been delayed. It will take place in the summer,” he […]
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Obama Hiroshima trip stirs debate on Truman’s fateful choice
WASHINGTON, (APP/AFP) – Barack Obama’s visit to Hiroshima next week has reignited an emotive debate over former US president Harry Truman’s epoch-making decision to drop the first atomic bomb. On April 25, 1945, thirteen days after Franklin Roosevelt’s death thrust Truman into the White House, the strained new commander-in-chief got a startling top secret briefing. […]
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South Korea’s Han Kang wins Man Booker International Prize
LONDON, May (APP/AFP): South Korean author Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize on Monday, sharing the #50,000 ($72,000, 63,500 euros) award with her translator — who had only taught herself Korean three years before. Han Kang, 45, an author and creative writing teacher who is already successful in South Korea, is likely to […]
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Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders agree to renew truce
VIENNA, (APP/AFP): The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed on Monday to respect a renewed ceasefire in their conflict over the disputed region of Nagorny Karabakh and to resume political dialogue. President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and and his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisian announced the deal in a joint statement after talks with US, Russian […]