Digest year-ender
for international stories for month of July, 2018
Jul
1: Islamabad: Pakistan hands over a list of 471 Indian prisoners lodged in
Pakistani jails to the Indian High Commission here.
Jul
2: Kabul: Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani mourns the deaths of 19 Afghans,
including 17 Sikhs, in a targeted suicide attack by an Islamic State bomber in
the eastern city of Jalalabad that also killed the only candidate of the Afghan
parliament election from the minority community.
Jul
3: Kathmandu: Nearly 150 Indian pilgrims were evacuated safely as rescue work
intensified to bring back over 1,500 Indians who have been stranded in Nepal's
mountainous region due to heavy rain while returning from the Kailash
Mansarovar pilgrimage in Tibet.
Jul
4: Islamabad: A top US official has met with Pakistan's powerful Army Chief Gen
Qamar Javed Bajwa and reminded him about Islamabad's commitment to eliminate
all terrorist groups present within its borders.
Jul
5: London: A UK High Court judge issues an enforcement order in favour of a
consortium of 13 Indian banks, seeking to recover funds owed to them by
beleaguered liquor baron Vijay Mallya who is fighting extradition to India on
fraud and money laundering charges worth nearly Rs 9,000 crore.
Jul
6: Islamabad: Pakistan's deposed premier Nawaz Sharif was today sentenced in
absentia to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment by an anti-graft court in one of
the three corruption cases against him in the Panama Papers scandal, dealing a
huge blow to his party ahead of the elections on July 25.
Jul
7: London: British Prime Minister Theresa May today hailed a
"breakthrough" after hours of being locked in with Cabinet ministers
at her official country retreat of Chequers to chair what was dubbed as a
"make-or-break" Brexit meeting.
Jul
8: Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has met Zakir Naik,
wanted in India for alleged terror activities and money laundering, and a
ruling party strategist has stoutly defended the government's decision not to
deport the controversial Muslim preacher, Malaysian media reported today.
Jul
9: London: Sri Lanka-born Canadian literary icon Michael Ondaatje's 'The
English Patient' has won the special one-off Golden Man Booker Prize to mark
the 50th anniversary of the prestigious literary award here.
Jul
10: Mae Sai (Thailand): A daring rescue mission in the treacherous confines of
a flooded cave in northern Thailand has saved all 12 boys and their soccer
coach who were trapped deep within the labyrinth, ending a grueling 18-day
ordeal that claimed the life of an experienced volunteer diver and riveted
people around the world.
Jul
11: Brussels: US President Donald Trump shocked allies at a fraught NATO summit
today by suddenly demanding that members double their defence spending
commitments.
Jul
12: Lahore: Over 300 PML-N workers and leaders have been detained in Pakistan
in a massive crackdown on the party activists in Lahore ahead of the arrival of
its supreme leader Nawaz Sharif, who would be arrested along with his daughter
and transported to jail via a helicopter.
Jul
13: Peshawar/Karachi: At least 133 people, including a top nationalist leader,
were killed and over 200 others injured today in a powerful suicide blast and a
targeted attack on separate election rallies in Pakistan, the deadliest in a
series of assaults on candidates ahead of the July 25 polls.
Jul
14: Peshawar: The death toll in the Balochistan suicide blast targeting an
election rally rose to 130 today as two persons succumbed to their injuries,
prompting the Pakistan government to announce tomorrow as a day of national
mourning over a string of terror attacks that have raised security concerns
ahead of the July 25 polls.
Jul
15: London: Embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May today revealed that
Donald Trump had suggested that she "sue" the European Union instead
of negotiating with the 28-member economic bloc on Brexit.
Jul
16: Helsinki: Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin vowed a fresh start to
troubled relations between the world's greatest nuclear powers at their first
summit today, as the American leader rejected a chance to condemn Moscow's
alleged manipulation of US elections.
Jul
17: Islamabad: Pakistan today filed its second written reply to India's
arguments in the ICJ on the conviction of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav who
was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage
and terrorism.
Jul
18: Washington: The United States is open to holding direct talks with the
Taliban to encourage negotiations between the militant group and the Afghan
government to end 17 years of war, US officials said.
Jul
19: Washington: President Donald Trump "disagrees" with Russian
counterpart Vladimir Putin's offer to allow Russian investigators to come to
the US to question American citizens in exchange for assistance in the ongoing
US probe into election interference, the White House said today.
Jul
20: United Nations: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today urged UN
member-states to keep tough economic sanctions fully in place on North Korea
and maintain pressure on Kim Jong Un to dismantle Pyongyang's nuclear program.
Jul
21: New York: Over 20 Indian-origin persons have been sentenced up to 20 years
in prison in the US for their involvement in a multimillion-dollar India-based
call center scam which defrauded thousands of American citizens of hundreds of
millions of dollars.
Jul
22: Peshawar: A former provincial minister and senior leader of the Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf was today killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up near his
car in the troubled Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, police said.
Jul
23: Kigali: India today extended USD 200 million lines of credit to Rwanda as
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held wide-ranging talks with President Paul Kagame
and discussed measures to boost the bilateral strategic ties by strengthening cooperation
in defence, trade and agriculture sectors.
Jul
24: London: Prime Minister Theresa May announced today she will take personal
control of Brexit negotiations with the EU, as time runs out to get a deal
before Britain leaves the bloc in March.
Jul
25: Islamabad: Pakistan's flamboyant cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was leading in 105 seats while its main rival
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was way behind with 71 seats with trends
indicating a possible hung parliament.
Jul
26: Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan today claimed victory
in the general elections after his party emerged as the single largest in the
National Assembly with its candidates winning 104 seats and leading in 14 others,
amid rival political parties' claim of "blatant" rigging.
Jul
27: Johannesburg: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the digital
revolution has offered new opportunities to the members of the BRICS grouping
and other emerging economies and it is essential to invest in artificial
intelligence and big data analytics to reap the benefits. Jul 28: Islamabad:
Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf today emerged as the single largest
party, winning 116 of the 270 contested seats, as Pakistan's election commission
released final results of the general elections marred by a tediously slow vote
count and resulting in allegations of rigging.
Jul
29: Beijing: Tibet has been an "inalienable part" of China since
ancient times, Premier Li Keqiang has asserted as he hoped that religious
groups in the sensitive region will continue to safeguard national unity and
promote social harmony, the state media reported today.
Jul
30: Washington: In a major boost to India, the US today eased export controls
for high-technology product sales to it by designating it as a Strategic Trade
Authorization-1 (STA-1) country, the only South Asian nation to be on the list.
Jul
31: Jalalabad (Afghanistan): A suicide bomb and gun attack by militants on an
Afghan government building in Jalalabad today killed at least 15 people, some
burned "beyond recognition", officials said, the latest in a series
of assaults on the eastern city.
(Source PTI)
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