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Despite tensions with China, India continues to balance with meetings with Russia-China and US-allies Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will meet with their Russian and Chinese counterparts next week for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting, while New Delhi is planning to host their ...

England allrounder Ben Stokes has spoken from managed isolation in New Zealand of his emotional response to news his father Ged has been diagnosed with brain cancer. Stokes has returned to his home town of Christchurch to be with his family and spoke to New Zealand media while spending ...

SRINAGAR, India: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is changing Indian Kashmir’s residency laws for the first time since 1947, in a bid to snuff out any challenge to the disputed territory belonging to India.Drawing comparisons with Israel’s “settler” tactics in the Palestinian Territories, Modi’s Hindu nationalist government aims to change ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is expected to visit Russia next week to attend a crucial meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) which is expected to deliberate on regional security scenario and geo-strategic developments, official sources said on Friday. The SCO defence ministers' meeting is taking place at a ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said it is important that India's military power is based on indigenous technology which will enable it to exercise "strategic autonomy". It will be Singh's second visit to Moscow since June. He had represented India at the Victory Day Parade in Moscow on June 24 ...

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - Top leaders in Afghanistan announced Thursday that U.S.-backed peace talks with the Taliban insurgency will start next week to negotiate a political settlement to the country’s long conflict. The proposed dialogue stems from a landmark pact the United States sealed with the Taliban in February to ...

KABUL, AfghanistanThe long-awaited intra-Afghan talks with the Taliban will begin next week, Afghanistan’s top peace negotiator announced on Thursday.“People are hopeful for peace. People are ready for tough decisions for the peace, but also have concerns,” Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the Afghan government’s High Council for National Reconciliation, ...

KABUL, AfghanistanThe long-awaited intra-Afghan talks with the Taliban will begin next week, Afghanistan’s top peace negotiator announced on Thursday.“People are hopeful for peace. People are ready for tough decisions for the peace, but also have concerns,” Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the Afghan government’s High Council for National Reconciliation, ...

Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera's continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. I'm Ted Regencia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Australia's second-most populous state of Victoria has reported the lowest daily rise in new infections in seven weeks.  The use of plasma treatment has been given the greenlight by the ...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden joins hands with his running mate, US Sen. Kamala Harris, after the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, August 20. They are joined on stage by Biden's wife, Jill, and Harris' husband, Douglas Emhoff. Andrew Harnik/APSteve Bannon, President Donald Trump's former campaign adviser, leaves a ...