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Pakistan to Release Captured Indian Fighter Pilot

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03/01/2019

03/01/2019

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Pakistan to Release Captured Indian Fighter Pilot

Top News: In a bid to reduce tensions between India and Pakistan after a series of escalating military confrontations, Pakistan is set to release Abhinandan Varthaman, a fighter pilot captured after Pakistani forces shot down his plane.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan called the moved a “peace gesture.”

Thousands of Indians gathered at the Wagah border crossing to await his release.

Somalia: After a hotel bombing on Thursday that killed nearly 30 people in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, Islamist al-Shabab militants took refuge in a nearby building and continued to exchange gunfire with security forces. The attack occurred along Maka al-Mukarama road—the city’s busiest thoroughfare.

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AFRICA

•  According to provisional results released Thursday, Senegal’s incumbent President Macky Sall won re-election in last weekend’s vote.

•  Egyptian officials detained six people in connection with a train crash in Cairo Wednesday that left 20 people dead and 43 injured.

•  A court in Kenya charged seven men with impersonating President Uhuru Kenyatta in order to swindle a businessman out of $100,000.

AMERICAS

•  Former Argentine President Carlos Menem was cleared of involvement in covering up a Jewish center bombing in 1994 that left 85 people dead.

•  The United States is offering a $1 million reward for information about Hamza Bin Laden, the son of Osama Bin Laden. U.S. officials believe he is emerging as an al Qaeda leader in his own right.

•  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing calls to resign over accusations that members of his administration pressured his former attorney general not to prosecute engineering firm SNC-Lavalin for allegedly paying bribes to former Libyan strongman Muammar al-Qaddafi’s family.

ASIA

•  Bangladesh told the United Nations that it could no longer continue to take in Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.

•  iPhone manufacturer Foxconn is cutting wages and facing worker resignations in China as demand for new iPhones dips.

•  Singapore announced plans to buy four U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets.

EUROPE

•  Estonians go to the polls for a general election on Sunday.

•  According to a Politico-Hanbury poll, a quarter of British voters would consider a vote for the Independent Group, made up of centrist members of Parliament who left the Conservative and Labour parties last week.

•  According to a Lithuanian court ruling, the European Institute on Gender Equality, an EU agency based in in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, has not been treating employees equally. Temporary employees have received unequal pay.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Deng Li, China’s top diplomat in Turkey, said Turkey’s criticism of China’s treatment of its Uighur minority could threaten economic ties.

•  At least 84 people, mostly children, have died since December escaping the Islamic State in Syria's Deir Ezzor region, according to the U.N.

•  Germany is mulling extending its hold on arms shipments to Saudi Arabia.

- By Benjamin Soloway

(Tauseef Musafa/AFP/Getty Images)

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