Digest year-ender
for international stories for month of January, 2018
Jan
1: Lahore: Pakistan today banned Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led
Jamaat-ud Dawa and Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation from collecting donations, on a
day when President Donald Trump accused Islamabad of giving nothing to the US
but "lies and deceit" and providing "safe haven" to
terrorists.
Jan
2: Washington: The US-led international sanctions and "other
pressures" are beginning to have a big impact on the authoritarian North
Korean regime, President Donald Trump said today.
Jan
3: Houston: The much-awaited autopsy report in the death of 3-year-old Sherin Mathews says she died of
"homicidal violence," US media reported today, nearly three months
after the adopted Indian girl was found dead in a culvert in suburban Dallas.
Jan
4: Islamabad: Pakistan today released yet another video of Indian death row
prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav in which he purportedly says he has not been harmed
in custody and also asks why India was "lying" that he was not
working for an intelligence agency.
Jan
5: Washington: The US today suspended about USD 2 billion in security aid to
Pakistan for failing to clamp down on the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani
Network terror groups and dismantle their safe havens, a White House official
said.
Jan
6: Washington: The US is keeping "all options" on the table apart
from suspending about USD 2 billion in security aid to Pakistan to put pressure
on it to take decisive action against the Taliban and the Haqqani network and
eliminate their safe havens, the White House warns.
Jan
7: Beijing: Thirty-two crew members, mostly Iranians, go missing after a tanker
carrying oil from Iran to South Korea collided with a cargo ship and caught
fire off the coast of east China.
Jan
8: Milan: An Italian appeals court acquits Giuseppe Orsi, the former president
of defence and aerospace giant Finmeccanica, over charges of alleged bribes
paid in exchange for a Rs 3,600 crore VVIP chopper deal to sell 12
AgustaWestland helicopters to the Indian government.
Jan
9: Washington: In a relief for Indian techies, US authorities say the Trump
administration is not considering any proposal that would force H-1B visa
holders to leave the country.
Jan
10: Yangon: Myanmar security forces took part in a massacre of 10 Rohingya in
September, the army chief's office says, as it admits for the first time abuses
during a crackdown that sparked a mass exodus of the Muslim minority.
Jan
11: Quito: Ecuador has granted citizenship to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange,
who has been sheltering at its London embassy for five years to avoid arrest,
Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa announced today.
Jan
12: Washington: US President Donald Trump today decided not to re-impose
sanctions on Iran, keeping the 2015 landmark nuclear deal alive, even as his
Administration announced another round of tough sanctions on 14 individuals and
entities of the Islamic Republic.
Jan
13: Tehran: Iran today rejected any modification of its nuclear deal with world
powers after US President Donald Trump demanded tough new measures to keep the
agreement alive.
Jan
14: Washington: US President Donald Trump pushes for a merit-based immigration
system, saying he wants only those people who can help America become
"strong and great again".
Jan
15: Beijing: China hits out at Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat for
calling Dokalam a disputed territory and says that his
"unconstructive" comments were not helpful for maintaining peace at
the borders.
Jan
16: Islamabad: Wracked by terrorism, extremism and sectarianism, Pakistan
government today issued a fatwa signed by over 1,800 Islamic scholars from
different schools of thought against the use of violence, including suicide
bombings, for religious purposes.
Jan
17: Seoul: The two Koreas agreed today to march together under a single flag at
the Winter Olympics opening ceremony and field a united women's ice hockey team
at the Games in a further sign of easing tensions on the peninsula.
Jan
18: Washington: Donald Trump insists that his view on building a wall along
US-Mexico border has not changed and Mexico would pay for it "directly or
indirectly", contradicting remarks by his chief of staff that the
president's opinion on the barrier has "evolved".
Jan
19: Washington: The US says it has told Islamabad clearly that Hafiz Saeed is a
"terrorist" and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the
law, reacting strongly to Pakistan Prime Minister's remarks that there was no
case against the Mumbai attack mastermind.
Jan
20: Beijing: China accuses the US of trespassing its territorial waters and
warned taking "necessary measures" to firmly safeguard its
sovereignty after an American missile destroyer sailed close to a shoal in the
disputed South China Sea to assert freedom of navigation.
Jan
21: Kabul, Jan 21 (AP) Security forces said today they had killed the last of
six Taliban militants to end an overnight siege at Kabul's Intercontinental
Hotel that left at least 18 people dead, including 14 foreigners. Jan 22:
Islamabad: Nawaz Sharif's legal woes mount with Pakistan's anti-graft body
filing a supplementary case against the ousted premier and his family over
properties in London as the probe in the Panama Papers scandal widened. Jan 23:
Washington: Claiming a "big win", President Donald Trump sign a bill
to end a three-day government shutdown after striking a deal with Democrats to
hold a debate on the future of over 700,000 young undocumented immigrants. Jan
24: Washington: Special counsel Robert Mueller wants to question US President
Donald Trump on his decisions to fire his national security adviser and the FBI
chief, a media report says, days after he interviewed the Attorney General in a
probe into whether Russia colluded with the Trump campaign in the 2016
election. Jan 25: Davos: Pakistan today said Kashmir and Rohingya issues are
among the "causes of a fractured world" being witnessed today and
they also need to be discussed at the international level.
Jan
26: Beijing: The Dokalam standoff has been blown out of proportion but it is
important to not change the "status quo" at sensitive points at the
India-China border, says Indian Ambassador to China Gautam Bambawale. Jan 27:
Kabul: An explosives-packed ambulance blew up in a crowded area of Kabul,
killing at least 95 people and wounding 158 others, officials said, in one of
the biggest blasts to rock the war-torn city in recent years.
Jan
28: Melbourne: A tearful Roger Federer surged home to beat Marin Cilic in five
riveting sets and win his sixth Australian Open and 20th Grand Slam title in
Melbourne on Sunday.
Jan
29: London: British Prime Minister Theresa May today convened what is being
branded a "war cabinet" meeting as a fresh round of infighting within
the ruling Conservative party over Brexit threatened to escalate into a
full-blown rebellion.
Jan
30: Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping was today unanimously elected as a
deputy to the 13th National People's Congress, the national legislature of
China, from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Jan
31: Lahore: The legal woes of Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and
his family mounted when a top court issued notices to them for allegedly
committing contempt of court during a rally in Punjab province last week.
(Source PTI)
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