Bilawal urges politicians to unite around ‘Charter of Reconciliation’
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has proposed that all politicians should unite around a “Charter of Reconciliation” as he accused them of playing with the cash-strapped country’s fate because of their egos, media reports said on Monday. Bilawal, a former foreign minister, was speaking at a public gathering on...
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Iran Prez to visit Pak on April 22
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Top diplomats meet in Paris to mobilise aid for war-ravaged Sudan
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Singapore PM Lee to step down on May 15, Wong to succeed
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Review says Abbey Gate bombing wasn’t preventable
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Israel response to Iranian attack shows what Kyiv needs: Kuleba
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Trump in court for historic hush money trial
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‘Police officer, shooter killed in exchange of gunfire in upstate’
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Man arrested after stabbing at church service in Sydney
Police in Australia say a man has been arrested after a bishop and three churchgoers were stabbed in Sydney. There are no life-threatening injuries. It occurred during a televised service at the church on Monday evening, police said. The Orthodox Assyrian church streams services online.A video on social media shows...
US Prez Biden to host Iraqi leader
President Joe Biden is set to host Iraq’s leader this week for talks that come as tensions across the Middle East have soared over the war in Gaza and Iran’s unprecedented weekend attack on Israel in retaliation for an Israeli military strike against an Iranian facility in Syria. The sharp rise...
FBI opens probe into Baltimore bridge collapse
(): The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse incident that will also look into whether the ship, mostly manned by Indias, left the key US port “knowing the vessel had serious systems problems,” a media report said on Monday. The 2.6-km-long, four-lane Francis Scott Key...
Blinken calls Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi FMs
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday reached out over phone to the foreign ministers of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt, while Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had calls with his Saudi and Israeli counterparts, amid signs of an escalating crisis in the Middle East following Iran’s strikes on...
PM Sunak’s Rwanda bill returns to House of Commons
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s flagship legislation aimed at flying illegal migrants out to Rwanda, which has been plagued with delays and parliamentary hurdles, returns to the House of Commons on Monday on its journey towards becoming law. The Safety of Rwanda Bill returns to the Lower House after the...
Israeli military warns Palestinians not to return to Gaza
The Israeli military renewed warnings on Monday for Palestinians in Gaza not to return to the embattled territory’s north, a day after Gaza hospital officials said five people were killed as throngs of displaced residents tried to reach their homes in the war-torn area. Northern Gaza was an early target of...
Sudan war: Aid groups warn of mass death from hunger
On a clear night a year ago, a dozen heavily armed fighters broke into Omaima Farouq’s house in an upscale neighborhood in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. At gunpoint, they whipped and slapped the woman, and terrorized her children. Then they expelled them from the fenced two-story house. “Since then, our...
