Pak prez reconstitutes Council of Common Interests to tackle eco
President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday reconstituted the Council of Common Interests, a top constitutional body, with the foreign minister replacing the finance minister. According to an official notification, the Council of Common Interests (CCI) will be headed by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif while chief ministers of all four provinces apart...
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Growing number of Americans end up in Russian jails; prospects for release unclear
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Sri Lanka on high alert
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Muizzu alleges his predecessor operated on orders from ‘foreign ambassador’
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Chinese cos suspend work on many dams days after terror attack killed 5
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Nine detained in Tajikistan in relation to Moscow attack
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Russia launches drones, missiles on Ukraine’s energy system
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Filipino villager will be nailed to cross for 35th time to pray for world peace
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Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr, dies at 87
Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87. Gossett’s nephew told The Associated Press that the actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica, California. No cause of death...
Jacob Zuma barred from running in elections
() Former South African President Jacob Zuma is not eligible to run in upcoming elections, the Independent Electoral Commission has ruled. The commission said at a media briefing on Thursday that it had upheld an objection against Zuma’s candidacy in the May 29 elections. In July 2021, Zuma was sentenced to 15...
Cranes arrive to remove bridge wreckage
The largest crane on the Eastern Seaboard was being transported to Baltimore so crews on Friday can begin removing the wreckage of a collapsed highway bridge that has halted a search for four workers still missing days after the disaster and blocked the city’s vital port from operating. As the...
Israeli airstrikes near Aleppo inflicts casualties
The Syrian army says Israeli airstrikes early Friday near the northern city of Aleppo have killed and wounded several people and caused material damage. Syrian state media quoted an unnamed military official as saying that the Israeli strikes coincided with drone attacks by Syrian insurgent groups on civilians targets in...
UK’s Labour Party uses Holi message to connect with Indian diaspora
The UK’s Opposition Labour Party used Holi to reach out to the Indian diaspora, with party leader Keir Starmer tapping into the spring festival’s message of ushering in the new in an election year. During an event organised by British-Indian think-tank 1928 Institute in London this week, Starmer was joined...
Burned bodies of Easter pilgrims remain in crashed S African bus
Emergency workers in South Africa were searching Friday for the bodies of victims after a bus carrying pilgrims to an Easter gathering plunged off a bridge and caught fire. An 8-year-old child was the only survivor of the crash that killed at least 45. Hours after the Thursday afternoon crash, smoke...
Obama, Clinton help Biden raise record $26 mn for his re-election
Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and some big names from the entertainment world teamed up Thursday night to deliver a rousing New York embrace of President Joe Biden that hauled in a record-setting USD 26 million-plus for his reelection campaign. The mood at Radio City Music Hall was electric as Obama praised...
