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Qatar removes products from Saudi-led quartet from market

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Qatar removes products from Saudi-led quartet from market

Qatar  has prohibited the sale of products made in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and Egypt that has imposed  embargoes and severed diplomatic, air and road ties with the country in June last year.

According to reports, Ministry of Economy and Commerce has, on Saturday, called on all shops across the country to remove all products made in the four countries from their shelves. Inspectors will visit stores to ensure compliance with the order.

The Government said it was trying to “protect the safety of consumers” by banning products from the first four countries to cut ties with Qatar on June 5, 2017. The government’s directive is meant to “find new suppliers of the variety of goods impacted” by the blockade.  It will try and stop products such as Saudi dairy goods from entering Qatar through a third country.

Read More: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt snap ties with Qatar

In June 2017, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt severed ties with Qatar for its alleged support to terrorism and destabilizing the region. They also demanded that Doha should downgrade its ties with Iran. Several African countries have also broken ties with Qatar in support of Saudi-let quartet.

Qatar removes products from Saudi-led quartet from marketThe Saudi rulers also asked Qatar to close down Al-Jazeera broadcaster, remove Turkish troops from its soil and end relations with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement, the group headed by ousted President Mohammad Morsi.

The four countries also imposed sanctions against Doha, including restrictions on Qatari aircraft using their airspace. Saudi Arabia totally closed its land border with the tiny country through which most of food supplies used to reach its market.

Read More: Trump calls Saudi Arabia to resolve Qatar crisis

Qatar denied all allegations and refused to yield and denounced the demands as unreasonable, claiming its sovereignty had been attacked. The standoff had forced Qatar to shift import routes to Kuwait and Oman, and buy goods from Iran and Turkey.

Following the embargo Iran and Turkey opened their airspace and trade routes for Qatar and supplied food and other necessary items. Iranian export to Qatar has grown ten folds.

Read More: Qatar’s emir: Saudi Arabia want “regime change”

According to a recent Associated Press investigative report, Elliott Broidy, a fundraiser for US President Donald Trump and his partner Lebanese American businessman George Nader had been promoting anti-Qatar policies at the highest levels of the US government over the past one and a half year against lucrative business favors from the Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and his UAE counterpart Mohammed Bin Zayed al-Nahyan.

The investigative report says that both Broidy and Nader spent a year in cultivating links with the two Crown Princes who were seeking to change US foreign policy with regard to their arch rival Qatar.

Meanwhile, Bahrain’s foreign minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifah has told the London-based Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat newspaper on Sunday, that there is no solution in sight for the diplomatic crisis with Qatar.  “The information in our hands today does not indicate any glimmer of hope for a solution now, as the matter does not happen suddenly,” he said.

Bahrain’s top diplomat accused Qatar of prolonging the dispute by taking its case to Western allies rather than the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).  He said, “We were expecting from the beginning of the crisis with Qatar that the emir of Qatar would go to Saudi [Arabia] but this did not happen.”

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Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump: Voting begins in United States

Over 82 million Americans have opted for early voting to cast their ballots for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris.

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Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump: Voting begins in United States

The Voting for the 2024 US presidential election has begun in the eastern time zone in America. Following months of intense campaigning by Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and her Republican challenger Donald Trump, Americans will vote to choose their next president.

Reportedly, the first ballots were cast in the minutes after midnight (US time) in a tiny New Hampshire township along the US-Canada border. Over 82 million Americans have opted for early voting to cast their ballots for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. Several pollsters have predicted a neck-and-neck contest, which brings the focus on the swing states to decide the fate of the presidential election.

Notably, in the United States, most states have a very clear preference for either the Republican or Democratic candidate. With this, only seven key swing states namely Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina will decide the result. Winning the majority of these aforesaid swing states is often essential for candidates aiming to secure the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.

In this election, Pennsylvania has emerged as the biggest prize between the two candidates. With the most electoral votes (19) than any other battleground state, Pennsylvania could possibly determine whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris clinches the White House.

On the last day of campaigning, Republican nominee Trump and Democratic nominee Harris criss-crossed key battleground states and delivered closing remarks. Former President Donald Trump, who is seeking a return to power, held rallies in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan while Vice President Kamala Harris addressed supporters in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.

Earlier in 2016, Donald Trump managed to make inroads in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the three Great Lakes states that make up the blue wall or a Democratic stronghold. Nonetheless, in the 2020 US Election, US President Joe Biden wrested the states back to the Democratic camp.

Notably, to win the presidency, a candidate needs a majority of electoral votes of 270 out of 538.

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Amid India-Canada diplomatic tensions, Justin Trudeau shares video of his Diwali celebrations

This comes a day after India expressed its concern over the reports of cancelled Diwali celebrations in Canada.

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Amid the ongoing diplomatic tensions between Canada and India over the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday shared a video of his Diwali celebration on social media platform X.

Sharing a 44-second video of his Diwali celebrations on social media, the Canadian Prime Minister wrote, “Happy Diwali! So many special moments shared celebrating with the community this week.”

This comes a day after India expressed its concern over the reports of cancelled Diwali celebrations in Canada.

The Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on Saturday, while addressing the media over Canada’s serious allegation against Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s involvement in the killing of Khalistani terrorist Nijjar, said it was unfortunate that the prevailing atmosphere in Canada has reached high levels of intolerance and extremism.

In the video, Prime Minister Trudeau showed off some colorful religious threads on his wrists, explaining that he received them during visits to three Hindu temples in Canada recently. He called them symbols of “good luck” and “protection,” adding with a smile, “I’m not taking them off until they fall off”.

Trudeau was also seen interacting warmly with the community, celebrating the festival, and enjoying delicious Indian sweets like jalebis, which he jokingly said he would “save for the team.”

On November 1, Trudeau posted on X, “Happy Diwali! Today, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, and Jain families will celebrate the triumph of light over darkness with festivities, candles, diyas, and fireworks. Wishing you all joy and prosperity during this special time.”

Addressing a press conference in Delhi, Jaiswal said India condemns the recent allegations made by the Canadian government against Shah that he was purportedly involved in the killing of Nijjar and called it “absurd and baseless”.

Jaiswal also said that India had summoned the Canadian High Commissioner on Friday to protest in the strongest terms for the references made to the Union Home Minister of India before the Committee by Canada’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister David Morrison.

On Tuesday, Morrison claimed that Shah orchestrated a campaign of violence, intimidation, and intelligence-gathering aimed at Sikh separatists on Canadian soil. He informed members of Canada’s national security committee in Parliament that he had confirmed Shah’s name to The Washington Post, which was the first to report the allegations. However, Morrison did not provide details on how Canada became aware of Shah’s alleged involvement.

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India, China complete disengagement in Depsang, Demchok at LAC after 4 years standoff

The Indian Army said that coordinated patrolling will start soon by both sides, and the ground commanders will continue to hold talks.

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India, China complete disengagement in Depsang, Demchok at LAC after 4 years standoff

In a significant development, India and China have completed the disengagement exercise in the Depsang and Demchok friction points at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. The troops of both the countries are now verifying the vacation of positions and removal of infrastructure.

Reportedly, the Indian Army said that coordinated patrolling will start soon by both sides, and the ground commanders will continue to hold talks. The two sides will exchange sweets for Diwali tomorrow.

Earlier, Foreign secretary Vikram Misri announced that New Delhi and Beijing reached an agreement to disengage in the remaining friction points at LAC in eastern Ladakh. After the agreement, the two countries began troops disengagement at the two friction points at Demchok and Depsang plains on October 23.

India-China relations worsened because of the Chinese troops’ aggression along the Line of Actual Control, the de facto border, in April 2020. It further deteriorated on June 15, 2020, after 20 Indian soldiers died in the line of duty thwarting the Chinese offensive in the Galwan Valley. New Delhi had said India’s bilateral relations with China will normalise only after the situation at the LAC returns to what it was before May 2020.

Reports said that the Indian Army and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have pulled back their forward-deployed troops and equipment from the two flashpoints, and have also dismantled temporary structures that had been built during the four-year-long standoff.

The Indian soldiers will resume their patrolling in areas that had been cut off because of the PLA’s presence. Nonetheless, the disengagement in Depsang and Demchok will not lead to the creation of buffer zones.

Both the countries had disengaged from Galwan Valley, Pangong Tso, Gogra (PP-17A) and Hot Springs (PP-15) areas and created buffer zones. Speaking to a newspaper publication, Lieutenant General Vinod Bhatia (retd), a former director general of military operations said that the disengagement at Depsang and Demchok will facilitate patrolling by both sides in a coordinated manner, and in the agreed upon frequency and strength of the patrolling parties.

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