Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has quashed “rumours” that he is abandoning the long march to hold talks with the Government, saying no dialogue will be held until authorities announced a date for snap elections. The long march dubbed as ‘Haqeeqi Azadi March’ began on Friday. On its second day on Saturday, the marchers […]
NEW YORK, Oct 28: “The bird is freed,” billionaire Elon Musk tweeted on Friday after completing the whopping USD 44 billion takeover of Twitter and firing the social media giant’s four top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and legal executive Vijaya Gadde. The New York Times said that Musk, the world’s richest man, closed the […]
NAQURA: Israel and Lebanon struck a US-brokered maritime border agreement on Thursday that opens up lucrative offshore gas fields for the neighbours that remain technically at war. US President Joe Biden hailed the “historic” deal that comes as Western powers clamour to open up new energy production and reduce vulnerability to supply cuts from Russia. […]
CHITTAGONG: Twenty-four people died after a cyclone slammed into Bangladesh on Monday night, forcing the evacuation of about a million people from their homes. Cyclones _ the equivalent of hurricanes in the Atlantic or typhoons in the Pacific _ are a regular menace in the region but scientists say climate change is likely making them […]
Messaging platform WhatsApp was down for users across the globe on Tuesday, according to outage tracker Downdetector. The report shared by the website said the app went down shortly before noon, with #WhatsApp the top trend on Twitter in Pakistan with more than 40,000 users talking about the outage. Users reported being unable to send […]
PARIS: Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan, three weeks after over 90 people were reportedly killed in “Bloody Friday” protests. “Death to the dictator”, the protesters, mostly young men, chanted on Friday in reference to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei outside a police station, in footage widely […]
LONDON: A man who was protesting outside a Chinese consulate in Britain said he was dragged inside the grounds by masked men, kicked and punched in an attack British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly described on Wednesday as “unacceptable”. China has disputed the account of events which took place during a demonstration on Sunday against Chinese […]
LONDON: Liz Truss on Tuesday battled to salvage her position as Britain’s prime minister, after market turmoil at her tax-slashing plans forced a series of humiliating U-turns that have put her job in jeopardy. The beleaguered leader — only six weeks into her tenure — met senior ministers for their weekly cabinet, the day after […]
Australia on Tuesday reversed a decision of the previous government to recognise West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, saying the status of the city should be resolved through peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian people. Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong said Australia “will always be a steadfast friend of Israel” and was committed to a […]
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden will act “methodically” in deciding how to respond to Saudi Arabia over oil output cuts, but options include changes to US security assistance, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday. Sullivan, speaking on CNN, said no changes to the US-Saudi relationship were imminent as Biden re-evaluates it. “And […]