Hindustan Times 07 June 2017 At least five farmers were killed and several injured in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur district on Tuesday when police fired on protesters demanding better prices in the drought-ravaged region that recorded a farm suicide every five hours in 2016-17. Angry farmers ransacked and set ablaze a police outpost after the firing...

Doha 17 June 2017 (QNA) Qatar has rejected accusations of attempting to undermine security in the neighboring Arab Gulf state of Bahrain. On Friday, Bahrain's official news agency BNA broadcast the recording of a 2011 phone call alleged to have taken place between Hamad bin Khalifa Al Attiyah, an adviser to Qatar's emir, and Hassan...

Nazareth, Palestine 16 June 2017 (AlJazeera News/ Jonathan Cook) Israel is seeking to exploit the rift between a Saudi-led bloc of Arab states and Qatar to advance its strategic interests in the region both against the Palestinian movement Hamas and against Iran, according to Israeli analysts. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt...

London 16 June 2017 (AlJazeera News) 1030 PM Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Friday that a list of "grievances" involving Qatar was being drawn up and would be presented to Doha shortly. Speaking to journalists in Britain's capital, London, on Friday, Adel al-Jubeir called on Qatar to respond to what he claimed were international...

14 June 2017 – Expressing solidarity with Afghan people, in the wake of recent violence in the country, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today underscored the Organization's full commitment to work with the Government and people of the country to build a sustainable and prosperous future for them. “Peace is the solution […] the international...

Yahoo News 15 June 2017 President Donald Trump has lambasted James Comey, the former FBI director, as a "leaker" for making public his accounts of his meetings with the president.© AFP Brendan Smialowski) If there is one thing the White House has sought to hammer home about the FBI investigation into Russia's meddling in the...

Islamabad 16 June 2017 (APP): Pakistan has called upon the international community to urge India to put an immediate end to the ongoing bloodshed of innocent Kashmiris and behave as a responsible member of the international community by honoring its commitments and obligations under the international human rights and humanitarian law. Taking part in the...

Islamabad 16 June 2017 (APP) Advisor to the Prime Minister on foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, Friday terming Pakistan and China as “Iron Brothers” said the great friendship between the two has stood the tests of time and has moved from strength to strength under successive generations of leaders of both the countries, but in the...

Moscow 16 June 2017 (TAS) Russian President Vladimir Putin, "being the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces, receives reports from the Defense Ministry on a regular basis," Kremlin’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said, answering a question on whether the leader of the Islamic State (IS, terror organization outlawed in Russia) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been...

Doha AlJazeera News 16 June 2017 (0340 PM) The cutting of diplomatic ties, closure of air, land and sea and the restrictions placed on Qatar are "worse than the Berlin Wall", according to the chairman of Qatar's National Human Rights Committee (NHRC). Speaking in Geneva on Friday, Ali Bin Smaikh al-Marri called on the UN...