
Some UK cops put down guns after an officer gets charged with Black man’s murder
London’s police force said on Sunday that some officers are refusing to conduct armed patrols after a colleague was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man.A Metropolitan Police marksman was charged on Wednesday over the September 2022 death of Chris Kaba, 24. Kaba was killed after...
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US prez hosts a Pacific leaders summit
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Kosovo cop killed, one hurt raising tensions with Serbia
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Biden admn poised to allow Israeli citizens US travel without visa
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Israeli military raid kills 2 Palestinians
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Taiwanese factory fire death toll rises to 10
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US provided Canada intelligence on Nijjar’s killing: NYT
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95 million Pakistanis under poverty: World Bank
24 September 2023 | PTI
Ukraine targets key Crimean city
Ukraine on Saturday morning launched another missile attack on Sevastopol in occupied Crimea, a Russian-installed official said, a day after an attack on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet left a serviceman missing and the main building smoldering. Sevastopol was put on air raid alert for about an hour after...
China an existential threat to US: Haley
Describing China as an ‘existential threat’ to the US and the world, Indian-American Republican presidential aspirant Nikki Haley has claimed Beijing is ‘preparing for war’. China has spent half a century plotting to defeat America and in some respects, the Chinese military is already at par with the US armed forces,...
Mexican president seeks meeting with Biden on migration issue
Mexico’s top diplomat Alicia Bárcena has said that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants to travel to Washington DC in early November to meet with US President Joe Biden about immigration, development aid and drug trafficking. The statement comes after a surge in migrants moving through Mexico forced the closure of...
Nawaz to return home as planned: Shehbaz
Insisting that there was no change in party supremo Nawaz Sharif’s plan to return to Pakistan next month, former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif has said his elder brother would present an ‘agenda of progress'’on October 21, media reports said here on Saturday. Ending his self-imposed...
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Lebanese troops rescue 27 from sinking boat Beirut: The Lebanese army and the country’s civil defence recused early on Saturday 27 migrants whose boat was sinking off the coast of north Lebanon, the military said in a statement. The army did not say where the migrants were heading nor did it...
Major terror bid foiled in Pakistan
Pakistan’s law enforcement agencies foiled a major terror plot to target key installations in the Punjab province and arrested 13 terrorists, mostly belonging to the banned Islamic State (ISIS) and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), police said on Saturday. According to the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab police, it conducted 83 intelligence-based...
Military’s manipulation absolutely absurd: Pak PM
(): Pakistan’s interim prime minister said he expects parliamentary elections to take place in the new year, dismissing the possibility that the country’s powerful military would manipulate the results to ensure that jailed former premier Imran Khan’s party doesn’t win. In an interview with The Associated Press on Friday, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar...