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Umar Farooq

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Sep 28, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Umar Farooq

    American and six Ukrainians released by India after six months in jail (opens the original)

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    Matthew VanDyke, a United States citizen held in India for more than six months and accused of supporting ethnic separatist groups, has been temporarily released on bail and returned to the US. The 47-year-old arrived on Saturday morning and reunited with his family, according to a family spokesperson. VanDyke, who runs a Washington, DC-based consultancy that says it provides “free security consulting, training, supplies and other services to vulnerable populations”, was detained in March by Ind

  2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Umar Farooq

    Iranian-American group sues Trump over war (opens the original)

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    A group of Iranian Americans have filed a lawsuit against United States President Donald Trump, asking a court to order a halt to military action against Iran that they allege is harming them and their families and is in violation of constitutional war powers checks. The complaint, filed in a Washington, DC, court on Thursday by the advocacy group National Iranian American Council (NIAC), argues the war will continue indefinitely and “cause imminent threats to the lives, limbs, health, property,

  3. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Umar Farooq

    As major powers act unilaterally, experts say UN faces crisis in New York (opens the original)

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    As world leaders gather in New York for the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), experts say the institution is battling an existential crisis of funding, relevance and Security Council gridlock. Major conflicts appear intractable, and powers like the United States and Russia can bend the UN’s Security Council to their will; member states are looking for new mechanisms to bring accountability to the venue and for a new secretary-general to voice their concerns. The body has been accused

  4. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Umar Farooq

    US removes Venezuela from drug list, Trump says (opens the original)

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    United States President Donald Trump’s administration has decided to remove from its list of countries which have failed to demonstrably combat illegal drug trafficking for the first time in more than 20 years, and is considering removing Colombia and Bolivia. “In Venezuela, thanks to my Administration’s arrest and removal of former illegitimate dictator and drug trafficker Nicolas Maduro, we are already seeing the results of growing cooperation with the country’s interim government against cart

  5. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Umar Farooq

    A third person has died of measles in the US, health officials say (opens the original)

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    A 40-year-old woman in the state of Pennsylvania has died of measles, becoming the third person to die from a rare outbreak of the preventable disease in the United States. “This is a heartbreaking loss for the family and an unfortunate reminder that measles can be a serious and potentially life-threatening disease,” Greg Furlong, the medical examiner for Jefferson County, about 230km (143 miles) northwest of Philadelphia, said in a statement posted online on Sunday. Health officials did not ide

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