Subject: Morning Brief: Tensions Between India and Pakistan Remain High After Kashmir Clash
From: "Foreign Policy" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 07:41:32 -0600 (CST)

Tensions Between India and Pakistan Remain High After Kashmir Clash

If you have problems viewing this email, view it in a browser. Please feel free to forward it to a friend.

MORNING BRIEF

Today's Global News from Foreign Policy

SUBSCRIBE TO FP

Follow Us:

02/19/2019

02/19/2019

TOP NEWS

Tensions Between India and Pakistan Remain High After Kashmir Clash

Top News: Nine people were killed in a clash in Indian-administered Kashmir over the weekend, including Indian soldiers and militants.

Last week, 40 Indian paramilitary police were killed in a bombing in the territory in the worst attack in the troubled region in decades. The attack sparked new tensions between India and neighboring Pakistan, both nuclear powers. Pakistan also claims Kashmir as its sovereign territory.

India has accused Pakistan of complicity in the bombing, but Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said India should stop “blaming” his country “without any proof” and warned if India tried to attack, “Pakistan will retaliate.”

Both India and Pakistan have recalled their top diplomats amid the standoff.

Venezuela: At a rally in Florida, President Donald Trump urged the Venezuelan military to abandon the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro. Maduro is maintaining his grip on power after the United States and several other countries around the world recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s legitimate interim president amid the country’s worsening economic and political crisis.

AFRICA

•  The new president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, met with outgoing President Joseph Kabila for negotiations on forming a coalition government.

•  Over 170 students and school staff who were kidnapped by gunmen in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone region were released on Sunday.

•  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari directed the military and police to be “ruthless” with vote-riggers ahead of the country’s presidential elections, which have been delayed.

AMERICAS

•  Sixteen Democratic-leaning U.S. states are suing the Trump administration over Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.

•  A prominent spiritual guru in Brazil has been accused by over 250 women—including his own daughter—of sexual assault and rape.

•  A number of U.S. citizens were arrested in Haiti, though the cause remains unclear.

ASIA

•  The founder of Chinese tech giant Huawei said the United States won’t be able to “crush” the company after filing criminal charges against some of its top executives.

•  The United Nations said a prolonged drought in Australia is negatively impacting the country’s children.

•  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reportedly nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize at the urging of Trump administration officials.

EUROPE

•  After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “Poles coooperated with the Nazis” during the Holocaust and his acting foreign minister said Poles “suckled anti-Semitism with their mothers’ milk,” Poland withdrew from a meeting of European leaders in Jerusalem.

•  An annual conference of top U.S. and European officials in Munich highlighted growing tensions in the transatlantic relationship under Trump.

•  Seven members of Parliament quit Britain’s Labour party over how it has handled Brexit and anti-Semitism in the party.

MIDDLE EAST

•  An Israeli-owned consortium hopes to launch the first-ever private lunar probe this week.

•  Hundreds of Islamic State fighters are still refusing to surrender in Baghouz, the last of the terrorist group’s strongholds in eastern Syria, which is surrounded by U.S.-backed forces..

•  The United Nations said Yemen’s government and Houthi rebels made progress in withdrawing forces from the key port city of Hodeidah.

- By Robbie Gramer

STR/AFP/Getty Images

Register at ForeignPolicy.com to receive Morning Brief and other FP newsletters.

TRENDING ON FOREIGNPOLICY.COM

Haley Tried to Block Appointment of Chinese Diplomat to Key U.N. Post. He Got the Job Anyway.

by Robbie Gramer and Colum Lynch

All This Should Remind You of the Run-Up to the Iraq War

by Steven A. Cook

‘Trotsky’ Is an Icepick to the Heart of Soviet History

by Nicole M. Ford

This email was sent to [email-masked] by [email-masked].

UPDATE PROFILE

UNSUBSCRIBE

PRIVACY POLICY

ADVERTISE

GROUP SALES AND LICENSING

Foreign Policy Magazine is published by the FP Group, a division of Graham Holdings Company. All contents ©2019 The Slate Group, LLC. All rights reserved. Foreign Policy, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave NW Suite 200 Washington, DC 20006

color
000000
conversation-id
116095
date-last-viewed
0
date-received
1550583670
flags
8590195841
remote-id
316271