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NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are increasingly wielding strong-arm tactics to subdue political opponents and critics of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party. A decade into power, and on the cusp of securing five more years, the Modi government is reversing India’s decadeslong commitment to multiparty ...

LAHORE: Arshad Nadeem, who had his dreams of javelin gold dashed on Saturday, says he feels “ashamed” he did not win for Pakistan but that it is only possible to “win hearts, not medals” given the country’s inadequate training facilities for sportspeople. Nadeem, the first Pakistani to qualify for the ...

France's top officials have reiterated their pledge to continue fighting terrorism in the aftermath of the killing of a policewoman by a suspected Islamist outside of Paris. A terror inquiry into the incident has been launched. The murder of the policewoman was an attack on the whole of France, ...

The French embassy in Pakistan has told its citizens to temporarily leave the country amid increasing anti-French sentiment and action by a now-banned radical Islamist group over the showing of Prophet Mohammed cartoons. “Due to the serious threats to French interests in Pakistan, French nationals and French companies are ...

Four teenagers have been charged in France in relation to the murder of Samuel Paty, including three who allegedly identified the teacher to his killer before he was beheaded in a street near his school. The three individuals, aged between 13 and 14, are charged with complicity in a ...

Author: AFPID: 1604947486434173900Mon, 2020-11-09 13:46 PARIS: French police said on Monday they had arrested seven members of a people smuggling ring which helped migrants enter Britain illegally from France. The gang picked up migrants in Paris, took them to motorway service stations where they were hidden in trucks bound for the ...

PARIS -- An attacker armed with a knife killed three people inside a church Thursday in the Mediterranean city of Nice, prompting the government to raise its security alert status to the highest level and double the number of soldiers deployed in the country. It was the third attack ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has said that a Hamas-linked Muslim group connected with the beheading of a teacher in Paris will be disbanded. Macron also promised to take “concrete actions” against radical Islamist terrorism. “We know what needs to be done,” the president told reporters in Paris on Tuesday, ...

PARIS -- Seven people were in custody Saturday after a stabbing outside the former Paris offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, including the suspected assailant, authorities said. Counterterrorism authorities are investigating what authorities called an Islamic extremist attack linked to Charlie Hebdo, which lost 12 employees in an al-Qaida ...

Author: Associated PressID: 1601120705470107500Sat, 2020-09-26 10:01 PARIS: Seven people were in custody Saturday after a stabbing outside the former Paris offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, including the suspected assailant, authorities said. Counterterrorism authorities are investigating what authorities called an extremist attack linked to Charlie Hebdo, which lost 12 employees in ...