New Delhi: The United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted the draft resolution presented by Pakistan on countering religious hatred in the aftermath of the Quran-burning episode in Sweden, with India voting in favour of the resolution. The draft resolution L.23 was orally revised once tabled. It is titled ‘Countering religious hatred constituting incitement to […]
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Germany has published a new policy to contend with a more “assertive” China, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said, after months of fractious debate on the approach to Berlin’s top trade partner. “Our aim is not to decouple [from Beijing]. But we want to reduce critical dependencies in future,” Scholz tweeted on Thursday after unveiling the new […]
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s religious-nationalist government has promoted a record number of housing units in settlements in the occupied West Bank in its first six months, Israeli anti-settlement watchdog ‘Peace Now’ said on Thursday. Most countries deem Jewish settlements built on land Israel occupied in a 1967 Middle East war as illegal, and their continued […]
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HELSINKI: U.S. President Joe Biden ended his three-nation trip to Europe with a resounding statement of support for NATO, seeking to allay European fears that a change in U.S. administration would mean uncertainty for Washington’s ties with its transatlantic allies. “I absolutely guarantee you. There is no question,” he said during a joint press conference […]
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PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) forward bloc leader Haji Gul Bar Khan was elected chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) on Thursday. According to G-B Assembly Speaker Nazir Ahmed, Khan received 19 votes from provincial members of the assembly (MPAs). Khan, who was elected on a PTI ticket in 2020 and has served as the health minister, […]
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New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Muslim World League Secretary General Mohammad Bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa held discussions here on furthering the inter-faith dialogue, countering extremist ideologies, promoting global peace and also deepening the partnership between India and Saudi Arabia.PM Modi and Al-Issa met and held insightful discussions on Tuesday and addressed a wide […]
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LONDON: Hospital doctors in England will on Thursday stage the biggest walkout in the history of the UK’s state-funded National Health Service, prompting fears for patient safety. The unprecedented five-day stoppage over pay and staffing is the latest in eight months of industrial action across the NHS, which is already reeling from a vast pandemic […]
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday said the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) led government would transfer the government to the caretaker setup in August. Addressing the nation, he said the government cleared the landmines placed by the previous government, adding that his government’s tenure was a journey from hopelessness to hope. “We extinguished the fire […]
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NEW DELHI: India and Arab states are expecting more cooperation in the fields of green energy, technology, health care and food security, officials and representatives of top business bodies said on Wednesday at the India-Arab Partnership Conference in New Delhi. The two-day conference on July 11-12 was organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of […]
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ISLAMABAD: The latest update of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) demonstrates that poverty reduction was achievable as 25 countries have successfully halved their global MPI values within 15 years, showing that rapid progress is attainable. The latest estimates for 110 countries were released on Tuesday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the […]
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