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New Delhi, July 3 (ANI): Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja today urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take help from friendly countries to rescue the stranded nurses from Iraq. “Government should take the help of the friendly Arab world, I urge Modi to take help from other friendly nations,” said Raja Security expert Qamar Agha, however, expressed his doubt over the kidnapping of the stranded nurses. “I don’t know if the nurses in Iraq are being kidnapped or not, it’s hard to say anything. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shahnawaz Hussain said the government is monitoring the situation and would do whatever it could to help all Indians stranded in Iraq.

New Delhi, July 3 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) met President Pranab Mukherjee here today to discuss possibilities of forming a government in Delhi. AAP leader Arwind Kejriwal said they had requested the president for elections in Delhi and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of trying to stall it.

New Delhi, July 3 (ANI): Kerala Chief Minister Oomen Chandy said here on Thursday that the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the Indian Embassy in Iraq are trying their best to secure the release of stranded Indians at the earliest. Talking about his meeting with the External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj he said she is taking a keen interest in the security of all stranded Indians. Congress Member of Parliament (MP) from Kerala Ramesh Chennithala, who was also present at the press conference addressed by Chandy, said the nurses are safe and the MEA is doing everything for their safety. The MEA also said that there are about 1500 Indians who have registered to leave Iraq, and around 900 of them have already been provided tickets to fly out of Iraq.

Small-scale fishermen in Chile have clashed with police after a protest in the port of Valparaiso. Fishermen marched to the Congress on Wednesday to demand improved working conditions and an increase in …

NEW DELHI (AP) — India summoned senior U.S. diplomats on Wednesday and lodged an official complaint over reports that the U.S. National Security Agency snooped on new Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political party in 2010.

New Delhi, July 2 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday said that Congress leader Shashi Tharoor had little choice other than issuing a statement today demanding a thorough probe into his wife, Sunanda Pushkar’s death case. His reported statement has however been denied by the All India Institutte of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).