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US President Donald Trump has lashed out at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), accusing the alliance and other friendly nations such as South Korea, Japan and Australia of failing to help the US in the Iran war.
Trump's remarks at a press conference at the White House on Monday came days ahead of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte's visit to Washington to meet the US President, who has dismissed the alliance as a "paper tiger".
Trump said the war with Iran had left a mark on NATO "that will never disappear in my mind."
The US President made it clear that the differences with NATO began when it spurned his move to take Greenland.
"NATO is a paper tiger that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's not afraid of," Trump told reporters here.
On the Iran war, Trump said NATO members actually "went out of their way not to help".
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Assam and Puducherry surpassed their highest-ever poll-participation on Thursday by recording 85.38 per cent and 89.83 per cent  respectively, the Election Commission said.
Previously, the highest poll participation in Assam and Puducherry was 84.67 per cent (2016 assembly polls) and 86.19 per cent (2011 assembly polls) respectively, the poll authority noted.
In Kerala, Assam and Puducherry, where assembly polls were held on Thursday, women voters outdid their male counterparts by lining up at voting centres.
In Assam, while male participation stood at 84.80 per cent, female voter turnout was recorded at 85.96 per cent.
Similarly in Kerala, the male poll participation was 75.01 per cent, while it was 80.86 per cent for women.
In the Union Territory of Puducherry, 88.09 per cent of the male electors voted as compared to 91.33 per cent of the women.
A total of 296 assembly constituencies in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry with a total electorate of over 5.31 crore went to polls, along

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