A select list of stories to read before starting the day.
India convened the Charge d’Affaires of the High Commissioner of Pakistan on Saturday and protested vigorously against unprovoked violations of the ceasefire by Pakistani forces in multiple sectors along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday.
Republican leaders in four critical states won by President-elect Joe Biden say they will not participate in a legally dubious plan to get their state’s electors to vote for President Donald Trump. His comments effectively shut down a half-baked plot some Republicans raised as a last chance to keep Trump in the White House.
On November 14, US President-elect Joe Biden, his deputy Kamala Harris, and incumbent President Donald Trump greeted Deepavali with those celebrating the festival of lights.
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In a speech at the 15th East Asia Summit, Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar also spoke on the Indo-Pacific and noted the growing interest in the region as an integrated and organic maritime space with the 10-nation ASEAN in its center.
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There is no celebration in the Raghunathpur village in West Bengal’s Nadia district this Diwali, as the people of the area mourn the death of their neighbor Subodh Ghosh in distant Baramulla in Kashmir.
Members of the People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration (Gupkar Alliance) failed to finalize their agreement to share seats for the District Development Council elections once again on November 14 despite holding a marathon meeting, the third in two days, on the subject.
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Eighteen people, including 15 girls, drowned when their canoe sank in a river in northeastern Nigeria on November 13, police said.
The young Owaisi, who wanted to be a lawyer, had to present his nomination papers to contest the Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections in 1994.
The reformist zeal of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali appears to be fueling instability in Africa’s second-most populous country and the continent’s economic powerhouse, just over two years since he took office. Abiy’s rapid push to forge an all-encompassing Ethiopian identity is being viewed with deep suspicion by the nation’s dominant ethnic communities.
Delhi’s air quality became “severe” on November 14 and stubble burning accounted for 32% of Delhi’s PM2.5 pollution and firecracker emissions made the situation worse.
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