Following are the top foreign stories at 1700 hours

    
     FGN8: UN-INDIA-LD TERROR
     *India ramps up efforts for UN listing of LeT front The Resistance Front; Indian team meets top UN counter-terror officials
     United Nations: An Indian delegation met top officials of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate here even as New Delhi stepped up efforts to designate The Resistance Front, an LeT proxy, as a UN-listed terror outfit.
    
     FGN33: WASIA-TRUMP-TARIFFS-LD INDIA
     President Trump claims India offers to drop all tariffs on American goods
     Doha: US President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed that India has offered to drop all tariffs on American goods.
    
     FGN4: UN-PEACEKEEPING-INDIA
     India makes significant pledges at UN peacekeeping Ministerial in Berlin
     United Nations: India, which is among the largest troop contributing countries to UN peacekeeping, has made key pledges at a peacekeeping ministerial meeting, including a quick reaction force company and one women-led formed police unit (FPU).
    
     FGN23: PAK-AHMADIS
     Around 100 graves belonging to Ahmadis desecrated in Pakistan
     Lahore: Around 100 graves belonging to the minority Ahmadi community of Pakistan have been desecrated in Punjab province, police said on Thursday.
    
     FGN25: TURKIYE-LD NATO
     NATO weighs US demand to massively hike defense spending as some struggle to meet current goal
     Antalya (Turkiye): NATO foreign ministers on Thursday debated an American demand to massively ramp up defence investment to five per cent of gross domestic product over the next seven years, as the US focuses on security challenges outside of Europe. (AP)*

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