Strongly condemning the Israeli attacks, he said the campaign was a continuation of the Jewish state's "war and genocide against the Palestinian people" and it has the full backing of the US and other imperialists.
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India can play an important role in pushing ahead the peace process as it is an influential country due to the relations it has with the key players in the world.
Violence against journalists took centre stage in 2014 with 66 reporters killed, says a report by Reporters Without Borders. While number of deaths may have fallen, violence against reporters has become more savage, and kidnappings have skyrocketed, the report says.
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The Jordanian King's visit comes nearly three weeks after Modi travelled to Jordan as part of his trip to West Asia, including Palestine.
'Secretiveness and the element of surprise in announcing decisions marks the Modi style of diplomacy. From being a voluble politician, he became a reticent statesman... But the diplomatic dance is performed on thin ice and his adroitness is still to be proved,' says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
At a critical time in the history of the United Nations, when the global order itself may be reshaped, following a devastating pandemic, India has chosen an experienced, charming and upright diplomat to lead the Indian delegation to the UN in New York.
Cautioning that West Asia today stood at a crossroads, India Monday said largescale extra regional military presence and rising constituency of radical religious groups in the region was a matter of grave concern.
Yielding to opposition demand, the government on Thursday agreed for a discussion in the Rajya Sabha on Gaza situation on Monday but not before proceedings of the day were washed out over the issue.
The memorial is the first-of-its-kind built by India in France after the country's Independence. The announcement to construct the memorial was made by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj during her last visit to Paris in June 2018.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin arrived on Monday on an eight-day visit to India, the first by any Israeli President in nearly two decades.
Noted Arab scholar and diplomat Dr Clovis Maksoud has said India's unwavering support to the Palestine cause and the Iraqi union in the face of its strategic military alliance with Israel has eroded the political foundation of the Indo-Arab ties.
Pakistan's Foreign Secretary denied that the current meeting with Ariel Sharon was being held due to outside pressure.
'No society becomes democratic merely by holding an election,' says T N Seshan.
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Abbas arrived in New Delhi on Thursday on a two-day visit. This is his first top-level political contact with the Indian leadership after he was elected to the key post, earlier held by Yasser Arafat.
Fifteen doctors, including specialists from Jordan, Tunisia and Egypt, examined the ailing Palestine leader before taking the decision to send him abroad.
India has a sizeable population of Sunni Muslims, and the Intelligence Bureau fears more young men will be drawn to the ISIS.
Indian national football team slumped to its worst-ever FIFA rankings, 171, in the 209-nation chart.
Kushner, in a meeting with the Russian envoy to the US Sergey Kislyak, discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between the then transition team and the Kremlin using Russian diplomatic facilities in the US, The Washington Post reported.
A comprehensive discussion was held on the Kashmir issue at the ongoing six-day World Social Forum meet, which is focusing on problems faced by the South Asian region, the Palestine issue, Iraq and the Iran nuclear standoff.
This is the first explicit claim of responsibility for the blasts, which claimed 56 lives, by the terrorist group headed by Osama bin Laden.
The Palestinian side is said to have committed to check operations against Israeli targets and Jerusalem in turn would put a halt to all military actions as long as the Palestinian commitment held.
World leaders condoled the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Prime Minister Modi is visiting Palestine, UAE and Oman from February 9 to February 12.
The Fatah search is aimed at giving it the financial muscle to mount campaigns against the radical Islamist group Hamas in this year's elections.
'India understands our point of view, that is why they invited our foreign minister to visit India before Sharon's visit,' says the Palestinian ambassador to India.
The mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Italian ship died while in American custody in Iraq.
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