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Trump again claims brokered India-Pak peace, will call to end Thai-Cambodia clash

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, said that he will soon make a call to end renewed hostilities on the Thai-Cambodia border, while citing his record at peace-making over the last ten months in which he included ending the India-Pakistan conflict in May as one of his major achievements.
Speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania, Trump highlighted what he described as his record of global peacemaking, declaring that "in ten months I ended eight wars", before citing conflicts between Kosovo and Serbia, Pakistan and India, and Israel and Iran.
India and Pakistan confronted each other militarily with artillery missiles, aircraft and drones after India made retaliatory strikes following a terror strike in Kashmir from across the border.
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NCP accuses BNP of constitutional violation ahead of polls due to candidates holding dual passport

18 Jan 2026 | 1:02 AM

Dhaka, Jan 17 (UNI) Bangladesh's National Citizen Party (NCP) spokesperson Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan today raised the issue of "dual citizenship" of several Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) poll candidates, saying the party was violating the constitution and existing laws ahead of the national election.

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Iranian Supreme Leader brands US President 'a criminal', blaming Washington for unrest and casualties

18 Jan 2026 | 12:27 AM

Tehran/Washington, Jan 17 (UNI) "We consider the US president a criminal for the casualties, damages, and the slander he inflicted on the Iranian nation," Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Saturday, accusing Washington of orchestrating the recent demonstrations as part of its goal "to devour Iran.".

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Iran's IRGC along with allied proxy militias played central role in mass killings on Jan 8 and 9

17 Jan 2026 | 11:03 PM

Tehran, Jan 17 (UNI) Iran's powerful theocratic guard and paramilitary force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was reportedly highly complicit in the mass killings of Iranian protesters on January 8 and 9, with its Quds Force and its allied proxy forces in the region playing a central role in the massacre, which allegedly numbered as high as 12,000, making it an unprecedented killing in contemporary Iran's history since 1979.

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Subdued development spending in Pakistan's FY-2026 leads to sluggish economic growth

17 Jan 2026 | 10:57 PM

Islamabad, Jan 17 (UNI) Development spending in Pakistan remained sharply subdued during the first half of the current fiscal year, even as the economy is projected to grow by 3.5% in 2026, driven by the continued implementation of the IMF reform programme.

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