4 h. ago A look at the nuclear rivals as Pakistan and India hint at military action over Kashmir

A deadly attack on tourists in the disputed Kashmir region last week has spiked tensions

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7 h. ago Pakistan and India hint at imminent military action over Kashmir. A look at the nuclear rivals

A deadly attack on tourists in the disputed Kashmir region last week has spiked tensions between India and Pakistan

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10 h. ago UK launches Yemen airstrikes, joining US campaign against Houthi rebels

RAF jets target buildings used to make drones, officials say, in Britain’s first involvement since Trump took officeMiddle East crisis – live updatesBritish fighter jets joined their US counterparts in airstrikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels overnight, the first military action authorised by the Labour government and the first UK participation in an aggressive American bombing campaign against the group.RAF Typhoons, refuelled by Voyager air tankers, targeted a cluster of buildings 15 miles south of the capital, Sana’a, which the UK said were used by the Houthis to manufacture drones that had targeted shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Pakistan warns it has 'credible intelligence' India is planning military attack within next 36 hours as nuclear

The statement by Information Minister Attaullah Tarar came after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a closed-door meeting yesterday with army and security chiefs

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15 h. ago India and Pakistan already sweltering in ‘new normal’ heatwave conditions

Temperatures south Asians dread each year arrive early as experts talk of ever shorter transition to summer-like heatThe summer conditions south Asian countries dread each year have arrived alarmingly early, and it’s only April. Much of India and Pakistan is already sweltering in heatwave conditions, in what scientists say is fast becoming the “new normal”.Temperatures in the region typically climb through May, peaking in June before the monsoon brings relief. But this year, the heat has come early. “As far as Asia and the Indian subcontinent are concerned, there was a quick transition from a short window of spring conditions to summer-like heat,” said GP Sharma, the meteorology president of Skymet, India’s leading private forecaster. Continue reading...

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31 h. ago Pakistan says India attack is ‘imminent’ – but are they really on brink of war?

Analysts say some kind of military operation is likely after the massacre of tourists by gunmen in Kashmir – but neither country has the appetite for a wider conflict

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34 h. ago India and Pakistan on edge as terror attack in Kashmir leads to exchange of border gunfire

Indian authorities arrest over 500 people and demolish homes in security crackdown sweeping Kashmir

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51 h. ago Pakistan warns an Indian incursion is 'imminent' and bolsters its forces amid fears nuclear

Fresh fighting erupted last week in Kashmir - a territory that has been disputed between India and Pakistan since the British partition of India in 1947 - after gunmen killed 26 civilians

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54 h. ago India and Pakistan on edge as militant attack in Kashmir leads to exchange of border gunfire

Indian authorities arrest over 500 people and demolish homes in security crackdown sweeping Kashmir

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57 h. ago Windows smashed at Pakistan High Commission in London amid tensions with India; man arrested

Windows smashed at Pakistan High Commission in London amid tensions with India; man arrested  Deccan Herald

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57 h. ago Pakistani minister tells India 130 nukes are 'targeted at you' while Delhi test

Fresh fighting erupted last week in Kashmir - a territory that has been disputed between India and Pakistan since the British partition of India in 1947 - after gunmen killed 26 civilians

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3 d. ago Pakistan deploys its artillery to India's border amid fears war could soon EXPLODE between the nuclear

Pakistan has deployed artillery to India's border as tensions continue to grow with its nuclear-armed rival India following a tourist massacre in Kashmir. 

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4 d. ago India and Pakistan trade gunfire across Kashmir border after deadly attack

Tensions between the nuclear-armed countries have escalated after attack killed 26 people in disputed territory Indian and Pakistani troops have exchanged gunfire across the volatile frontier in Kashmir for a second day, amid spiralling tensions after a brazen attack that killed 26 people at a popular tourist resort.The massacre has sent relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours into a dangerous downward spin. India and Pakistan have fought three wars, two over Muslim-majority Kashmir, which is divided between them but claimed fully by both. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Shots fired between India and Pakistan border guards for second day running as tensions soar

Iran offers to mediate between two sides amid the fallout of a major terror attack, while Donald Trump dismisses the tensions and says ‘they'll get it figured out one way or the other’

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5 d. ago The domestic pressures shaping India’s response to Kashmir attacks

Modi must weigh a response that balances domestic fury with strategic restraintIndia’s furious response to the terrorist massacre of 26 men in a popular travel destination is being shaped by public rage at the deadliest civilian attack in Kashmir in a quarter-century.The brutality of the assault in one of Muslim-majority Kashmir’s marquee tourist spots – and its national resonance – leaves Prime Minister Narendra Modi needing to signal strength, but without triggering uncontrolled escalation between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, analysts say. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago What is the Indus Water Treaty and what does its suspension mean for India and Pakistan?

After the tourist massacre in Kashmir, India pulled out of the 1960 agreement, which Pakistan describes as an act of war

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5 d. ago Everything we know about attackers who killed 26 tourists in Kashmir

India puts out bounty on three suspected Kashmiri and Pakistani gunmen

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5 d. ago Pakistan and India exchange fire as UN calls for ‘maximum restraint’

Countries trade blows across line of control in disputed Kashmir as tensions rise after deadly shootingTroops from Pakistan and India exchanged fire overnight across the line of control in disputed Kashmir, officials have said, after the UN urged the nuclear-armed rivals to show “maximum restraint” after a deadly shooting in the region.Relations have plunged to their lowest level in years, with India accusing Pakistan of supporting “cross-border terrorism” after gunmen carried out the worst attack on civilians in contested Muslim-majority Kashmir for a quarter of a century. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago UN urges India and Pakistan to use restraint as tensions soar after Kashmir attack

The United Nations has urged India and Pakistan to exercise “maximum restraint” after they ramped up a tit-for-tat diplomatic offensive following a deadly attack on tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir

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5 d. ago Pakistan threatens to freeze crucial peace treaty with India amid Kashmir tourist massacre fallout

Pakistan's warning to India comes after New Delhi blamed Islamabad for a deadly attack that killed 26 people, mostly tourists, in disputed Kashmir

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