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U.S. sanctions 3 Chinese firms and one from Belarus for providing ballistic missile components to Pakistan

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State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller. | Photo Credit: AP The U.S. has slapped sanctions on three Chinese companies and one from Belarus for supplying missile-applicable items for Pakistan’s ballistic missile programmes, including its long-range missile programme, the State Department has announced. The names of the companies are Xi’an Longde Technology Development, Tianjin Creative Source International…

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US Sanctions 3 Chinese Firms For Providing Ballistic Missile Tech To Pakistan

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US sanctioned 3 Chinese firms for supplying missiletech for Pakistan’s ballistic missile programme Washington: The US has imposed sanctions on three Chinese companies and one from Belarus for secretly supplying missile-applicable items for Pakistan’s ballistic missile programmes, including its long-range missile programme, the State Department has announced. The names of the companies are Xi’an Longde…

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Cash-strapped Pakistan makes formal request to IMF for another bailout

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Pakistan Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Pakistan has formally sought a bailout package in the range of $6-$8 billion with the possibility of augmentation through climate financing from the IMF, a media report said on April 20. Cash-strapped Pakistan also requested to dispatch the International Monetary Fund (IMF) review mission next…

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Russia pummels exhausted Ukrainian forces with smaller attacks ahead of a springtime advance

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Russian troops are ramping up pressure on exhausted Ukrainian forces to prepare to seize more land this spring and summer as muddy fields dry out and allow tanks, armoured vehicles and other heavy equipment to roll to key positions across the countryside. With the war in Ukraine now in its third year and a vital…

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‘Cried every day’: Kenya cult families struggle for closure

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Authorities exhuming bodies at the mass-grave site in Shakahola, Kenya.  | Photo Credit: AFP A year after school teacher Francis Wanje lost eight family members to a Kenyan doomsday cult, he is still reckoning with the horror and haunted by unanswered questions. His daughter was one of 429 people whose bodies were exhumed last year…

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West Bank villagers vigilant but vulnerable after settler attacks

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Palestinian men sit around a camp fire as they watch over livestock on the outskirts of the village of the West Bank village of Al-Mughayyir near Ramallah, in the aftermath of a settler attack on their village, on April 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Sitting around a fire in the hills of the Israeli-occupied…

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China Is Sinking And A 3rd Of Its Population At Risk, Satellite Data Reveals

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A third of China’s population is at risk due to land subsidence, satellite data shows (Representational) New Delhi: About a third of China’s urban population is estimated to be at risk due to land subsidence, shows a new finding which researchers said is indicative of a global phenomenon. China’s urban area below the sea level…

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NATO Must Choose Whether We Indeed Are Allies: Ukraine’s Zelensky

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Dnipro, Ukraine: NATO must decide if it is Kyiv’s ally, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday, urging defence ministers from the bloc’s member states to step up arms deliveries to his struggling forces.His appeal to Western partners to provide at least seven more air defence systems came hours after Russia launched a wave of fatal…

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