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No ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas, Myanmar tells UN
26 Sep 2017
Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations Hau Do Suan said the exodus followed the 25 August attacks by ARSA against security forces and subsequent security operations and the scorched earth policy employed by the terrorists
Man who averted WW-III dies unnoticed in Russia
20 Sep 2017
Former Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov became known in the West as "the man who saved the world" after he decided a nuclear alarm was false – though his quick thinking emerged only many years later
Nation bids adieu to Indian Air Force hero Marshal Arjan Singh
18 Sep 2017
The national flag flew at half-mast at all government buildings in the national capital in honour of the iconic hero of the 1965 India-Pakistan war, who was the only IAF officer to be promoted to five-star rank
US irate as N Korea vows to ‘reach nuclear goals’
16 Sep 2017
`Our final goal is to establish the equilibrium of real force with the US and make the US rulers dare not talk about military option,’ KCNA quoted North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as saying
IS claims London Underground blast; 29 hurt
16 Sep 2017
US, NATO worried as Russia kicks off war games with Belarus
15 Sep 2017
The Soviet-led Warsaw Pact once used the Zapad exercises to prepare for potential war with the West and NATO fears it is now aimed at its members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia
N Korea defies UN again with second missile over Japan
15 Sep 2017
North Korea had on Thursday threatened to sink Japan “into the sea” with a nuclear strike and turn the US into “ashes and darkness” for sponsoring the latest UN sanctions
UK reportedly seizes properties of Mumbai blasts mastermind Dawood
13 Sep 2017
Dawood is reported to own a hotel in Warwickshire and other residential properties across the Midlands
Pakistan’s Habib Bank fined $225 mn, pushed out of NYC over terror links
09 Sep 2017
The bank allegedly facilitated almost 13,000 transactions involving at least $250 million through its Manhattan branch without proper screening for prohibited transactions or dealings with sanctioned countries
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The New Oil (Part 2): How the 2026 lithium and graphite bottleneck could stall global EV growth
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