SYDNEY, July 5, (APP/AFP) – Australian leader Malcolm Turnbull Tuesday rejected calls for him to resign after the weekend’s disastrous election, as senior government figures pleaded against infighting. Three days after polls closed the result is still too close to call, with Turnbull’s Liberal/National coalition and the opposition Labor each short of the 76 seats […]
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Australian PM brushes off calls to quit
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India victimizing Kashmiris for demanding inalienable right’
ISLAMABAD, July 5 (APP): The Hurriyet forum led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that India was subjecting the Kashmiri people to the worst kind of state terrorism for continuing struggle to get rid of its bondage. According to KMS , the Hurriyet forum in a statement issued in Srinagar said that the Kashmiris’ struggle […]
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Bangladesh politician ‘stunned’ by son’s role in attack
DHAKA, July 5, (APP/AFP) – A Bangladeshi politician has spoken of his shock on discovering his son was one of the suspected gunmen who murdered foreign hostages, and said many young men from wealthy, educated families had gone missing. Imtiaz Khan Babul said he was “stunned” to learn of his son Rohan’s involvement in the […]
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China floods leave more than 100 dead or missing: report
BEIJING, July 5, (APP/AFP) – Flooding in China’s Yangtze river basin has left 112 people dead or missing in recent days, media said Tuesday, with more damage feared from a typhoon expected to land within days. Some 16 million people have been affected by heavy rains that have left vast areas under water near the […]
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PM strongly condemns terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia
LONDON, July 5 ( APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Tuesday strongly condemned the terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia and said Pakistan shares the pain and grief of their Saudi brethren. “The government and people of Pakistan are deeply shocked and saddened over the terrorist attacks in the holy land and share the pain and […]
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Poland moves towards multi-billion-euro Patriot missile deal
WARSAW, July 4, (APP/AFP) – Polish Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz on Monday said he would ink a letter of intent with US defence firm Raytheon to buy a Patriot missile system valued at an estimated 5 billion euros ($5.6 billion). The EU member’s previous government had said in April it planned to buy the Patriot […]