The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has announced that it plans to disband and disarm in a move promising an end to decades of conflict with Turkiye.
The move was announced on Monday by the Firat News Agency, a media outlet close to…
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PKK to formally disband and lay down its weapons | PKK
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Virat Kohli announces retirement from India Test cricket team | Cricket News
It’s the end of an era for Indian Test cricket as Virat Kohli follows fellow batting star Rohit Sharma into retirement.
India batsman Virat Kohli announced his retirement from Test cricket, bringing down the curtain on a sparkling career in the…
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Kurdish PKK to disband, potentially ending decades of conflict in Turkiye | News
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Move follows February call by jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan for group to lay down its arms.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has announced that it plans to disband and disarm in a move promising an end to…
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Do Israel’s attacks make a difference to Yemen’s Houthis? | Conflict News
Amid ferocious Israeli attacks on Yemen, ostensibly in response to Houthi attacks on Israel, surprising news from the United States seemed to shake matters briefly.
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that a ceasefire had been agreed…
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Germany, Israel mark 60 years of ties as Gaza war casts shadow
Israeli President Issac Herzog will visit Germany on Monday to mark 60 years of relations with the country that perpetrated the Holocaust, at a time when ties are complicated by the Gaza war.
His German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier will…
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Pope Leo XIV’s message emphasised “building bridges and peace”
“It’s a mission going out from the Church, not in but out, what they call going to the existential peripheries.”
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Pakistan’s stance against “all-out war” should be taken seriously
“These are two nuclear-armed states,so there’s a certain amount of deterrence that’s built into the diplomatic process."
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‘Who suffered the most?’: Fear and fatigue in Kashmir after ceasefire | India-Pakistan Tensions News
Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir — On Saturday morning at Fateh Kadal, a densely packed neighbourhood on the sloping embankment of the Jhelum river in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir’s largest city, 62-year-old Hajira wrapped a…
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Trump hails Air Force One ‘gift’ after Qatari luxury jet reports
Donald Trump on Sunday defended plans to receive a new Air Force One as a gift, after reports he will accept a luxury Boeing jet from Qatar despite strict rules on presents for US presidents.
Calling the plane a “flying palace,” ABC News, which…
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US, China hail ‘substantial progress’ made in tariff talks in Geneva | Trade War News
Beijing and Washington have both hailed the progress made at the end of a weekend of closed-door discussions in Switzerland aimed at de-escalating trade tensions sparked by US President Donald Trump’s aggressive worldwide tariff rollout in…
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