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Digest for international stories for week Feb 25 - Mar 3, 2017

Saturday Washington: The Trump administration dismisses as "absurd" any correlation between US President Donald Trump's controversial remarks on immigrants and the Kansas shooting incident that resulted in the "tragic" death of an Indian engineer.

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Saturday

Washington: The Trump administration dismisses as "absurd" any correlation between US President Donald Trump's controversial remarks on immigrants and the Kansas shooting incident that resulted in the "tragic" death of an Indian engineer.

Houston: The grieving wife of the Indian engineer shot dead in an apparent hate crime by a navy veteran in Kansas City has demanded an answer from the US government what it would do to stop hate crimes against the minorities.

New York: Microsoft's India-born chief Satya Nadella asserts that there is no place for "senseless violence" and bigotry in the society as he condemned the killing of an Indian techie in a shooting incident in the US.

Sunday

Islamabad: The court employees in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) will have to offer daily prayers punctually - both in and outside the court- as their annual raises would now hinge on their offering prayers regularly and on the prescribed times, says a top Judge.

Lahore: Pakistan Rangers kill four terrorists and detains 600 terror suspects during over 200 search operations in Punjab province under the recently launched nation-wide military operation 'Radd-ul-Fasaad'.

Washington: Donald Trump announced that he would skip the glitzy White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) annual dinner, to become the first US President to miss the gala in decades amidst his raging tiff with the media.

Monday

Los Angeles: Barry Jenkins' coming-of-age drama "Moonlight" walks away with the top award at the Oscars but its thunder was stolen by a bizarre announcement mix-up that initially declared "La La Land" as the best picture winner.

Islamabad: Pakistan's top diplomat in the UN Maleeha Lodhi delets a congratulatory tweet about Oscar winner Muslim actor Mahershala Ali after being criticised for promoting an Ahmadi, considered to be non-Muslims in Pakistan.

Houston: Hundreds of people, holding placards that called for peace and unity, took part in a prayer vigil in Kansas City to celebrate the life of Indian techie Srinivas Kuchibhotla, tragically cut short by an American navy veteran in an apparent hate crime.

Tuesday

Washington: Defence Secretary Jim Mattis submits to the White House a preliminary trans-regional plan that suggests deployment of all elements of US national power to defeat the Islamic State terror group around the globe.

Islamabad: Pakistan's political parties agree in principle to revive the controversial military courts for another two years for speedy trial of terrorists, after a fresh wave of suicide attacks killed over 125 people recently.

Dhaka: Five Islamist militants from the banned JMB outfit sentenced to death for brutally killing a Japanese farmer in Bangladesh in 2015, in one of the first attacks targeting foreigners, minority Hindus and secular Muslims.

Wednesday

New York: Anxiety among Indian immigrants in the US over the proposed tightening of work visa rules under the Trump administration has been compounded by fears in the wake of the fatal shooting of an Indian engineer in Kansas.

Washington: US President Donald Trump's top spymaster nominee has said he was "shocked" to know that India successfully launched over 100 satellites in one go, asserting that America cannot afford to be seen lagging behind.

Washington: The White House condemns the fatal attack on an Indian engineer in Kansas City last week by a US Navy veteran as "racially-motivated hatred". (MORE)

 

(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

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