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Bihar elections debacle will test PM Modi’s foreign policy
The debate within the country on the wider implications of the election results on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal image and his ability to pursue his political and economic agenda has also been of interest […]
Europe
UN meet on development, address to NRIs, bilaterals form part of PM visit
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a packed schedule during his 6 day US visit, which includes his address to a high-level UN body, according to officials who briefed the news media […]
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COUNTER TERRORISM
California to organize parade to honour heroes who thwarted France train attack
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA (TIP): Three young men who disarmed a gunman on a high-speed train bound for Paris will get a heroes’ welcome in their hometown in California, the mayor of Sacramento said on Monday. “Big […]
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COUNTER TERRORISM
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Greeks Votes “No” to EU demands – Syriza readies IOU currency
Greeks have voted and have rejected the “ridiculed” austerity demands of Europe’s creditor powers by a stunning margin, sweeping aside warnings that this could lead to the collapse of the banking system. The final result […]
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EU LEADERS COMMIT SHIPS, AID TO ADDRESS MIGRANT CRISIS
BRUSSELS (TIP): Late to the rescue, European leaders came through on April 23 with pledges of big ships, aircraft and a tripling in funds to save lives in the Mediterranean after the deaths at sea […]
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INDIA TO BUY 36 RAFALE FIGHTER JETS FROM FRANCE
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 10 announced that India has requested France to give 36 Rafale fighter jets in ‘fly-away condition’ as quickly as possible. The decision on Rafale jets was […]
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EU LEADERS DAMPEN GREEK HOPES FOR BAILOUT RELIEF
BRUSSELS (TIP): Exasperated leaders of the European Union pressed the Greek prime minister to speed up plans to improve his country’s balance sheet in a meeting that stretched into the early hours Friday. ”A deal […]
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French President Hollande seeks tolerance; Charlie Hebdo buries staff
PARIS (TIP): French President Francois Hollande insisted January 15 that any anti-Muslim or anti-Semitic acts must be “severely punished,” as he sought to calm rising religious tensions after his country’s bloodiest terrorist attacks in decades. […]
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Massive manhunt for 2 suspects in attack on Charlie Hebdo
PARIS (TIP): Police SWAT teams backed by helicopters tracked two heavily armed brothers with al-Qaeda sympathies suspected in the newsroom massacre of satirical French weekly that spoofed Islam, homingin on a region north of Paris […]
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German citizen killed in Kabul school bombing
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): A teenage suicide bomber attacked a French-run high school in Kabul on December 11, walking into a packed auditorium during a theater performance and killing a German citizen, Afghan officials said. The […]
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Ex-partner reveals suicide bid after Hollande’s affair
PARIS (TIP): French President Francois Hollande’s former companion writes in a tell-all book to be published this week that months after their breakup he was trying to win her back with flowers, dinner invitations and […]
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WRECKAGE OF AIR ALGERIE PLANE FOUND IN MALI
NEW YORK (TIP): In a third major international aviation disaster in a week, following the downing of a Malaysian Boeing 777 over eastern Ukraine and the crash of a passenger plane off Taiwan, an Air […]
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US SAYS RUSSIA HAS ‘HOURS’ TO EASE UKRAINE CRISIS
PARIS (TIP): The United States warned Russia on june 26it had only “hours” to prove it was helping disarm Ukrainian insurgents whose separatist drive has reopened a Cold War-style chasm in East-West ties. US Secretary […]
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G7 threatens Russia with more curbs
BRUSSELS (TIP): World leaders urged Vladimir Putin on June 4 to stop destabilizing Ukraine or face further sanctions as they met without a Russian president for the first time since the 1990s. Putin reached out […]
Europe
Paris gets first female mayor as concierge bites back
PARIS (TIP): It was a victory to savour. As she bid to become the first female mayor of Paris, Spanish-born socialist Anne Hidalgo had to endure taunts from her opponents about her modest origins and […]