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As part of a deal that ended weeks of fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, Kalbajar district, was among the second of the three to be handed back by Armenia. Azerbaijan, on Wednesday said that its forces had entered Kalbajar district. Kalbajar was initially scheduled for handover on November 15, but the deadline was postponed by Azerbaijan for humanitarian reasons. The defence ministry in Baku said in a statement that “units of the Azerbaijani army entered the Kalbajar region on November 25” under the deal signed earlier this month by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia. Armenia agreed to hand over three districts around Karabakh — Aghdam, Kalbajar and Lachin — as part of the deal that stopped an Azerbaijani offensive that had reclaimed swathes of territory lost to Armenian separatists i...

The United Arab Emirates has stopped issuing new visas to citizens of 13 mostly Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to a document issued by a state-owned business park. A source briefed on the matter told Reuters the visas had temporarily stopped being issued to Afghans, Pakistanis and citizens of several other countries over security concerns, but did not provide details of those concerns. The document, sent to companies operating in the park and seen by Reuters, cited an immigration circular that came into effect on Nov. 18. Seen by Reuters, the document said applications for new employment and visit visas had been suspended for nationals – those outside the UAE – of 13 countries that also included Somalia, Libya and Yemen until ...

A Bangladeshi man, who was plotting attacks against Hindus in his own country and planning to fight in Kashmir, has been arrested by Singapore’s security agencies. The agencies investigated the suspicious activities of 37 people as part of the heightened security measures following recent strikes in Europe, the government said on Tuesday. Of the 37 people, 14 are Singaporeans and 23 foreigners, mostly Bangladeshis. A Bangladeshi, Ahmed Faysal (26), has been arrested under the Internal Security Act (ISA) following investigations into Militancy-related activities, the home ministry said. Faysal had been working as a construction worker in Singapore since early 201

More than 10 rockets have been fired on Kabul city. As per the update by Tolo News, no casualties have been reported yet. The rockets landed in various parts of Kabul a few minutes after two explosions happened in Chehel Sutoon and Arzaan Qeemat areas. Earlier, the Taliban has staged attacks in at least 50 districts across 16 Afghan provinces following the signing of the peace deal with the US in February and most of these took place in the last two months after negotiations began in Qatar on September 12. Violence has intensified in various parts of Afghanistan despite ongoing efforts in Doha by the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban.

The Border Security Force (BSF) has said that two drones were seen coming from the direction of Pakistan which later crossed the International Border in the Samba sector of Jammu Kashmir. The drones were spotted at nearly 6 pm, following which the BSF troops fired upon them, while the jawans kept a strict vigil. The first Pakistan drone (UAV), Indian BSF said, was seen flying inside (500 to 700 meters from the border) India's air space near Border Outpost (BOP) Chak Faqira. Indian Forces patrolling the Border fired around 80/90 small arms fire towards the drone, but it managed to escape towards Pakistan's side, the BSF said. The BSF has claimed that the second drone was found inside Indian territory (about 700 meters) which also came from Pakistan's side from BOP Chack Faqira ...

France has expressed interest to explore opportunities of collaboration in tourism and other potential sectors in the Jammu Kashmir and North East of India. The French ambassador told to the Union minister, Jitendra Singh, the desire of the government of France to explore the avenues and opportunities of collaboration in different sectors in the northeastern states as well as tourism and other potentials in Jammu Kashmir, the statement read. Jitendra Singh said there were vast areas of unexplored potential in the Northeast and Kashmir which were waiting to be explored. These, he said, include tourism, handicraft, handloom as well as food and fruit sectors. The minister said that the prime minister has not only given special emphasis to the development of the northeastern region bu...

China has quietly upgraded large-scale military infrastructure in the Central, Sikkim and Eastern sectors, as reported by Hindusta times. It has also strengthened surface to air missile sites, increased the number of UAVs and expanded airbases in Tibet. China continued to do this at a time when the world's focus was on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, where conflict between the two countries has been at a peak for months. People associated with this case have given this information. The Hindustan Times has reported that China has increased the strength of the PLA in eastern Ladakh, reducing its chances of returning to the status quo of the former in conflict zones.buy ivermectin Canada buy ivermectin generic Indian military commanders are concerned about increasing ...

Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail in two terror cases by a court in Pakistan, news agency PTI reported. This was not the first time that Hafiz Saeed, chief of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a front organisation for the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was sentenced in a terror case by a Pakistani court. In February, Hafiz Saeed and some of his aides were convicted and sentenced to 11 years in jail in a terror-financing case. Hafiz Saeed was arrested in Pakistan in July last year in connection with terror-financing cases after international pressure built up on Pakistan to come clean.