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Allegations of any foreign country directing assassinations against Americans is a grave concern and must be investigated, Tulsi Gabbard, who has been picked by President Donald Trump to oversee spy agencies, told lawmakers on Thursday. Gabbard, 43, said this during her confirmation hearing for the position of Director of National Intelligence which oversees all the intelligence agencies of the US government, including the CIA and the FBI. She was responding to a question on a federal indictment which alleged that an Indian government employee directed an assassination attempt against a Sikh activist, who is a US citizen, in New York City in the spring of 2023, a plot foiled by US law enforcement. Separately, Canadian officials have accused the Indian government of assassinating a Canadian citizen and Sikh activist, Hardeep Singh Niijar, in Canada in June 2023. What are your views on these allegations that the Indian government is targeting Sikh activists in Canada and the United ..

The heads of the American and British foreign intelligence agencies said Saturday they are working ceaselessly for a cease-fire in Gaza, using a rare joint public statement to press for peace. CIA Director William Burns and MI6 Chief Richard Moore said their agencies had exploited our intelligence channels to push hard for restraint and de-escalation. In an opinion piece for the Financial Times, the two spymasters said a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war could end the suffering and appalling loss of life of Palestinian civilians and bring home the hostages after 11 months of hellish confinement. Burns has been heavily involved in efforts to broker an end to the fighting, traveling to Egypt in August for high-level talks aimed at bringing about a hostage deal and at least a temporary halt to the conflict. So far there has been no agreement, though United States officials insist a deal is close. U.S. President Joe Biden said recently that just a couple more issues remain unresolved.

Gershkovich, 32, was arrested on March 29, 2023, in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg on charges of espionage that carry up to 20 years in prison after the FSB

The Cotton Association of India (CAI) on Tuesday maintained the cotton crop production forecast for the 2022-23 season at 311.18 lakh bales. In the last cotton season, the total cotton production was at 307.05 lakh bales, CAI said in a statement. The cotton season runs from October to September. The total cotton supply for October 2022 to July 2023 is estimated at 332.30 lakh bales, which consists of arrivals of 296.80 lakh bales, imports of 11.50 lakh bales and the opening stock estimated by the CAI at 24 lakh bales at the beginning of the season. Further, the CAI has estimated cotton consumption for the months of October 2022 to July 2023 at 265 lakh bales, while the export shipments up to July 31, are estimated at 14 lakh bales. Stocks at the end of July is estimated at 53.30 lakh bales including 28 lakh bales with textile mills and the remaining 25.30 lakh bales with the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), Maharashtra Federation and others (MNCs, traders, ginners among others)

Caught napping on 9/11 - in part because of a turf war with the FBI - the CIA was eager to get ahead of the game and gather intelligence on a rumoured second wave of attacks

The report said a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) working group came up with a covert operation plan to put explosives on the pipelines

As per sources, Robin Raphel met with Imran Khan at his residence in Bani Gala on Sunday afternoon. It was also revealed that head of PTI USA chapter accompanied Robin Raphel

CIA's No 2 official made clear that fighting al-Qaida and other extremist groups would remain a priority but that the agency's money and resources would be increasingly shifted to focusing on China

Zawahiri liked to read alone on balcony of his Kabul safe house early in the morning, a "pattern-of-life intelligence" that eventually gave American agencies the chance to carry out precision strike

Biden will commemorate the agency's 75th anniversary since its founding after World War II

The report added that a guilty plea in exchange for life sentences and not execution could bring to an end the case going on for years now at Guantanamo Bay

Biden has tapped former CIA deputy director David Cohen to return to the agency in the same role he served during the Obama administration

US President-elect Joe Biden announced that he has nominated former career diplomat William J Burns to lead the CIA

The US did not inform Pakistan about Osama bin Laden's location due to lack of trust and past experiences of terrorists being tipped off after data was shared with Islamabad, ex-CIA chief Panetta said

The 2011 killing of Bin Laden caused massive embarrassment for Pakistan and particularly its powerful military

Handling and running a Moscow-based informant is extremely difficult because of Mr. Putin's counterintelligence defenses

Prime Minister Khan's statement on Osama during an interview with Fox News on Monday was significant as Pakistan had so far denied that it had any information about the hideout of Osama Bin Laden

However, the CIA has so far not commented on these leaked documents

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