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Kashmir Council EU Chairman Ali Raza Syed has expressed grave concerns on a deadly attack in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s Balochistan province. At least eight people were killed and above 40 injured in a suicide attack on a Church on Quetta’s Zarghoon Road on Sunday afternoon. In a statement Mr Ali Raza Syed said, this is a brutal and inhuman act and we strongly condemn it. He added, violence and terrorism is not acceptable in any shape. Such attacks are assaults on sense of connection and shared humanity, tolerance,…

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NEW YORK: A suburban New York hospital technician accused of using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to launder money meant for the militant Islamic State (IS) group was arrested on charges of money laundering in support of a foreign terrorist organisation and bank fraud, prosecutors said on Thursday. Federal prosecutors in New York’s Suffolk County claimed in court papers that Zoobia Shahnaz, 27, used fraudulent credit cards and loans to accumulate $85,000, which she attempted to transfer to IS before attempting to go to Syria to join it. Prosecutors said that…

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China has officially stated that it supports the establishment of an independent state of Palestine based on pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. “China understands the concerns of Islamic countries on the status of Jerusalem, supports the resolution of the status of Jerusalem in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions and international consensus,” Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang said. He made the remarks during his regular press briefing in Beijing while responding to a question about the adoption of a joint statement by the Organisation of…

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NEW DELHI: Indian police detained dozens of Catholics singing Christmas carols for allegedly trying to convert people, officials said on Friday, as fears grow over religious freedom in the South Asian nation. Police said 32 people were detained for trying to convert people to Christianity in the Madhya Pradesh state late Thursday, with a leading Catholic association condemning the accusations as “laughable”. When a group of priests went to the police station to enquire about the detentions, their parked car was torched, allegedly by a mob belonging to a right-wing…

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GAZA: Israeli troops shot dead four Palestinians and wounded 150 others with live fire on Friday, medical officials said, as protests over US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital entered a second week. Most of the casualties were on the Gaza Strip border, where thousands of Palestinians gathered to hurl rocks at Israeli soldiers beyond the fortified fence. Medics said two protesters, one of them wheelchair-bound, were killed and 150 wounded. In the occupied West Bank, another area where Palestinians are seeking statehood along with adjacent East…

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The Chairman of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SDP) Mr. Martin Schulz on Dec. 7, 2017 tweeted, “I want a new constitutional treaty to establish the United States of Europe. A Europe that is no threat to its member states, but a beneficial addition.” Mr. Martin Schulz has introduced a new vision, ‘United States of Europe’ by 2025, under a single constitutional treaty. It also worth mentioning here that the states, who disagree with the federal constitution, under Martin Schulz’s proposal, would automatically have to leave the EU. “This constitutional treaty…

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Lebanese security forces fired tear gas and water cannons on Sunday at demonstrators near the US embassy as they protested Washington’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. An AFP correspondent in Awkar outside the capital Beirut said several hundred pro-Palestinian demonstrators had gathered near the US embassy, located in the area. They were blocked from reaching the complex by a metal gate sealing the road leading to the embassy, and security forces fired tear gas and water cannons to repel demonstrators who tried to open the gate by force.…

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