Violence spurs Japan to evacuate workers from South Sudan

Tokyo: Japan has urged dozens of Japanese nationals including aid workers in South Sudan’s capital of Juba to leave the country and dispatched military aircraft to evacuate them amid renewed fighting in the African nation.
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Modi reviews Kashmir unrest; Omar questions Mufti’s absence from meet

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who returned home on Tuesday after his four-nation Africa tour, chaired a high-level meet in the national capital to review the law and order situation in Jammu and Kashmir, which has been on the boil since the killing of top Hizbul Mujahideen commander Bu…