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Sep 12, 2025, NEW YORK: The UN General Assembly voted Friday to…
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Sonia Gandhi Slams Modi Government, Calls Its Palestine Stance ‘Failure of Humanity and Morality’
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When Arab silence becomes complicity, Palestine becomes the sacrificial lamb
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