Following are the top foreign stories at 1700 hours

     FGN34: NOBEL-3RDLD PEACE
     Nobel Peace Prize to activists from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
     Oslo: This year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties, a strong rebuke to Russia's President Vladimir Putin on his 70th birthday. (AP)
    
     FGN37: UK-INDIA-FTA
     Fears of watered-down India-UK free trade pact amid visa row
     London: There are growing fears here that the proposed India-UK free trade agreement (FTA), currently in its final stages of negotiation towards a Diwali deadline, is likely to be watered down amid controversial remarks by UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman on visas.

     FGN17: UK-BRAVERMAN-INDIA
     Action initiated on all cases, India counters UK Home Secretary Braverman claim on visa overstayers
     London: India has countered UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s claim that the Migration and Mobility Partnership (MMP) had not "worked very well" to say that India had initiated action on all cases raised with it under the agreement.
         
     FGN6: US-2NDLD SIKH FAMILY
     Suspect in killing of Sikh family in California once worked for them: Relative
     San Francisco: The suspect in the killing of an Indian-origin Sikh family, including an eight-month-old baby girl, had once worked for the family's trucking business and had a longstanding dispute with them that got "pretty nasty" and culminated in an act of senseless killing, authorities and a relative said.    
    
     FGN33: US-SIKH-FAMILY-VIGIL
     'We're all shattered': Loved ones, community hold vigil for slain Sikh family in US
     San Francisco: Hundreds of people in the US city of Merced prayed with candles in their hands and tears in their eyes during a sunset vigil for the grieving Indian-origin Sikh family, including an eight-month-old baby, who was kidnapped and then killed by a former employee.    
         
     FGN13: IMF-GLOBAL-ECONOMY
     Global economy is moving from a world of relative predictability to one of greater uncertainty: IMF MD
     Washington: The global economy is moving from a world of relative predictability to one of greater uncertainty, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva has said, warning that countries accounting for about one-third of the world economy will experience at least two consecutive quarters of contraction this or next year.
    
     FGN35: LANKA-COURT-RAJAPAKSAS
     Sri Lanka's top court allows economic crisis case against Rajapaksas
     Colombo: Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Friday allowed proceedings of a case filed by a rights group against the Rajapaksa clan, alleging that the members of the erstwhile powerful family were directly responsible for the country's foreign debt and the worst economic crisis.
    
     FGN7: US-LD PURI
     There is huge potential for India-US collaboration in energy sector, says minister Puri
     Washington: There is a huge potential for India-US collaboration in the energy sector, petroleum and natural gas minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said, underlining that the Indian government has handled the current energy crisis efficiently and has not allowed energy shortages to affect any part of the country.
         
     FGN25: UK-SHARIFS-MEETING
     Maryam Nawaz reunites with father Nawaz Sharif in London after three years on no-fly list
     London: Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has reunited with his daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif in London three years after authorities returned her passport following a court order. PTI GRS

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