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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today tweeted that India has secured the release of four Indians from Syria who were arrested by the Syrian government in January reportedly when they were on their way to join the terror group Islamic State. Swaraj also tweeted a welcome home message to the four. Swaraj also tweeted her thanks to the officers who facilitated their journey from Syria to India. 



We have secured the release of four Indian nationals from Syria.
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Sushma Swaraj (External Affairs Minister) said India is making all efforts to secure the release of a priest who was abducted by a terror group in Yemen last month. The minister’s remarks came in the backdrop of reports claiming that the terror group planned to execute the priest on Good Friday yesterday. However, there is no report of any harm having come to him so far. Father Tom Uzhunnallil an Indian national from Kerala was abducted by a terror group in Yemen. Uzhunnalil had gone missing in Yemen after the Islamic State militant group attacked a care home run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. Yemen is a conflict zone. We do not have Embassy there. Gunmen had stormed the refuge for the elderly earlier this month and killed a Yemeni guard before tying up and shooting 15 other employees. Four foreign nuns including an Indian working as nurses were among those killed.

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India and Mexico have discussed ways to enhance co-operation in key areas of trade and energy with Sushma Swaraj (External Affairs Minister) inviting Mexican participation in Govt innovative programmes like 'Make in India' and 'Digital India. Swaraj and her Mexican counterpart Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas also talked about ways and means of elevating the special relationship between the two countries and agreed to schedule the next meeting of the Joint Commission in Mexico in the second half of 2016. The visiting dignitary had called on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday. Swaraj mentioned that India would like Mexico s participation in ensuring value addition and greater use of technology in our agriculture and agro-processing sectors. The External Affairs Minister also conveyed government's interest in providing launch facilities for Mexican micro and nano satellites. The Mexican Foreign Minister renewed the invitation extended by the Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto for Modi to visit Mexico in the near future.