Following are the top foreign stories at 1700 hours

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**** Nottingham in mourning after brutal stabbing of British Indian teen

London: The city of Nottingham in central England is in mourning on Thursday as it prepares for a second vigil in memory of three people killed in a brutal stabbing spree, including British Indian teenage medical student Grace O’Malley Kumar – a talented cricket and hockey player. ****

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**** Man charged with murder of Hyderabad student Tejaswini in UK

London: A 23-year-old man was on Thursday charged with the murder of Indian student Tejaswini Kontham and the attempted murder of her friend at a residential address in Wembley, north London. ****

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**** Partygate: UK ex-PM Boris Johnson found to have ‘deliberately misled’ Parliament

London: Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament when he denied knowledge of Covid-19 law-breaching parties in Downing Street, a cross-party parliamentary panel said on Thursday in its report into the Partygate scandal. ****

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**** Pro-Khalistani activist Avtar Singh dies in UK hospital

London: Avtar Singh Purba alias Khanda, a prominent pro-Khalistani activist who was involved in the attack on the Indian High Commission in London, died at a hospital in the city of Birmingham on Thursday morning, a UK-based Sikh organisation said in a statement. ****

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**** UNGA adopts by consensus resolution introduced by India to establish memorial wall to honour fallen peacekeepers

United Nations: The United Nations General Assembly has adopted by consensus a draft resolution piloted by India to establish a memorial wall in the UN headquarters here to honour fallen peacekeepers. ****

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**** Cyclone Biparjoy: 67,000 people evacuated from Pakistan’s Sindh province

Islamabad/Karachi: The coastal regions of Pakistan were on high alert with over 67,000 people being evacuated to safer places in the southern Sindh province ahead of Cyclone Biparjoy’s expected landfall on Thursday, which is likely to bring heavy rain and cause flooding in several cities. ****

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**** IMF raises issues with Pakistan’s FY23-24 budget; calls it ‘missed opportunity’

Islamabad: The IMF has raised several issues in Pakistan’s budget for the fiscal year 2023-24, calling it a “missed opportunity” but expressed its readiness to work with the cash-strapped country to refine the budget ahead of its passage in Parliament. ****

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**** Commerce Minister Goyal, US Trade Representative Tai to hold virtual meet on June 15

Washington: US Trade Representative Katherine Tai will on Thursday hold a virtual meeting with Union Commerce and Industries Minister Piyush Goyal. ****

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**** PM Modi to speak on diaspora’s role in India’s growth story at his community address in US

Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will speak on the role of the diaspora in India’s development during his address to Indian Americans here next week, according to a community leader in charge of hosting the event. ****