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....ollowing are the top foreign stories at 1700 hours<BR>PTI News<BR>Dated:- 8-10-2025<BR>PTI<BR>FGN27 PAK-ASIF-INDIA Chances of war with India are real, warns Pakistan's defence minister Islamabad: Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has warned that "chances of war with India are real" and claimed that his country would achieve even bigger success in the case of any armed conflict in future....
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..... FGN7 US-INDIA-ENVOY Sergio Gor confirmed as US Ambassador to India New York/Washington: The US Senate has confirmed Sergio Gor as the next Ambassador of the United States to India. FGN26 PAK-LD TERROR Lt Col, Major among 11 soldiers killed in clashes with TTP militants in Pakistan Peshawar: At least 11 military personnel, including a Lt Colonel and a Major, were killed in clashes....
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.... with the Taliban militants during an intelligence-based operation in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, bordering Afghanistan, the army said on Wednesday. FGN18 CHINA-EVEREST-LD HIKERS Over 850 hikers, guides stranded in Mt Everest blizzard rescued Beijing: Over 850 hikers, guides and porters who were stranded for three days in a severe blizzard on the Tibetan slopes of Mount....
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.... Everest have been evacuated by hundreds of villagers and rescue teams, according to Chinese official media. FGN6 US-TRADE ADVISER-INDIA Can already see India starting to diversify: Trump’s trade adviser on Delhi's oil purchases from Moscow New York: India’s purchase of Russian oil is not a “bedrock” of the Indian economy, and the country is starting to diversify its energy buys, U....
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....S Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said, noting that New Delhi will make its own decisions and Washington is not dictating to other nations on who they can have relations with. FGN3 US-CALIFORNIA-DIWALI In historic development, California designates Diwali as state holiday New York: In a historic development for the Indian diaspora, California has designated Diwali as an official state ....
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....holiday, becoming the third state in the US to officially recognise the Indian festival of lights as a holiday. FGN12 LANKA-UN-PANEL UN panel slams Sri Lanka's slow progress on enforced disappearances Colombo: A United Nations panel has expressed serious concern over Sri Lanka's lack of progress in addressing cases of enforced disappearances, including the performance of the Office on Miss....
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....ing Persons (OMP), which has traced only a fraction of the nearly 17,000 cases it has received. FGN4 US-FIRM-INDIA-NUCLEAR Holtec ships ‘Spent Fuel Storage Racks’ to India for deployment at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant New York: Supply of state-of-the-art nuclear components to India’s Kudankulam plant through close collaborative efforts of diversified energy technology company Holt....
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....ec has been hailed as an “opportunity” by the company’s India-born CEO Dr. Kris Singh. FGN2 UK-INDIA-WHISKY Scotch whisky in spotlight as UK PM Keir Starmer begins India visit London: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer begins a two-day visit to India on Wednesday with the Scotch whisky industry in the spotlight as a “big winner” of the India-UK Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which ....
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....the UK government expects will grow the Scottish economy by 190 million pounds a year. FGN25 NOBEL-2NDLD CHEMISTRY Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, Omar M Yaghi win Nobel Prize in chemistry for molecular work Stockholm: Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their work in the development of metal-organic frameworks that....
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.... dates back to 1989. (AP) PTI GRS GRS GRS<BR> News - Press release - PIB....