Observer News Service - June 30, 2016
KABUL: Two Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 27 people and wounded around 40 in an attack on Thursday on buses carrying recently graduated cadets on the western outskirts of Kabul, officials said. Three buses were attacked as they approached the capital from neighbouring Wardak province, a police official said, according to preliminary information. Initial […]
Observer News Service - June 30, 2016
BALASORE: India on Thursday test fired a new surface-to-air ballistic missile jointly developed with Israel from a defence base off the Odisha cost, Times of India reported. Barak-8, a medium range missile (MR-SAM), was fired from a mobile launcher in Chandipur’s Integrated Test Range (ITR), a Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) official said. “The […]
Observer News Service - June 30, 2016
Tehran : Iran has condemned Israels continued settlement expansion activities in the occupied Palestinian territories and its desecration of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds (Jerusalem). The Zionist regime’s planned attempts to fully Judaize al-Quds and to destroy its historical and civilizational identity, the regime’s settlement activities, its raids on […]
Observer News Service - June 30, 2016
LONDON : Two leading international human rights groups say Saudi Arabia should be suspended from the UN Human Rights Council over the indiscriminate airstrikes being carried out in Yemen. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday that the oil-rich kingdom should be removed from the UN top human rights panel until it […]
Observer News Service - June 30, 2016
NEW DELHI: The World Bank (WB) said on Thursday it would lend India more than $1 billion for its huge solar energy programme, after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought climate change funds from its visiting head. Modi is banking on India’s 300 days a year of sunshine to generate power and help fight climate […]
Observer News Service - June 30, 2016
MOSCOW :Russia will most likely resume dialogue with Turkey over the crisis in Syria now that the two nations have agreed to restore ties, the Russian foreign minister says. Sergei Lavrov made the announcement on Wednesday, following a meeting with his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault in France. We until recently had very close contacts on […]
Observer News Service - June 30, 2016
At a special exhibition in New Delhi to commemorate Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee, BJP president Amit Shah plied a familiar BJP line on Kashmir. He attacked Indias first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru for messing up Kashmir by his historic blunder. And this blunder, according to Shah, is the declaration of the truce […]
Observer News Service - June 30, 2016
Indian discourse on the temporary setback in pursuing membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group has become a game of smoke and mirrors. There is no dishonour in trying for NSG membership and challenging an exclusionary global order. Diplomatic delays, even failures, are part of any engagement with the world; mature powers recognise that. But what […]
Observer News Service - June 30, 2016
Britans exit from European Zone shortened to Brexit was a major highlight of the news and a trending tag on social media some days back. United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union after a membership of 43 Years which will reduce its count of members to 27 from 28. 51.89 percent voted in favor […]
Observer News Service - June 30, 2016
It is the greatest of ironies that despite the seas of woe and hardship that the Palestinians have struggled through for their survival, the stakes of the occupation are only increasing. A struggle for the soul of Jerusalem is underway, throwing into peril not only the lives of Jerusalems Palestinians, but also the future of […]