The head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said on March 13 she wants to avoid economic dependence on Beijing, but not fully “decouple” the EU’s economy from China. Explaining the stance she took last week when she visited U.S President Joe Biden, Brussels’ top official said the European Union was merely seeking […]
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Workers and trade unions planned Wednesday a new demonstration over the government’s pension reform plan. It will be the eighth demonstration against the plan which triggered public outrage when it was announced last year. Meanwhile, the nation’s representatives continue to discuss the reform plan, according to media reports. The joint committee, comprising seven senators and […]
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LAHORE: Police have registered cases against hundreds of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) workers and supporters in multiple cities of the country, including Karachi, Rawalpindi, and Islamabad, for protesting against the possible arrest of former prime minister and party chairman Imran Khan. In Karachi, around 250 people, including the party’s Karachi division Vice President Masroor Sial, were […]
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A 10-year-old girl from South Kashmir’s Shopian has handwritten 30 chapters of the Quran in just 30 days. Muntaha Maqsood (10) daughter of Maqsood Ahmad Ganie from Chitragam Shopian who is a class 5 student at Kindergarten Public School wrote the Quran on close to 700 pages. Quoting news agency KNO Muntaha said that she […]
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ISLAMABAD — Police in Pakistan attempted to arrest former prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday but were blocked by hundreds of his supporters outside his residence in the eastern city of Lahore. In major cities later in the day, supporters of Khan’s opposition Pakistani Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Party protested the possible arrest of their leader. The […]
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WASHINGTON: A Russian SU-27 fighter jet crashed into a US Reaper drone in international airspace above the Black Sea, causing the American aircraft to crash, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The incident occurred after the Russian jet and another SU-27 “conducted an unsafe and unprofessional intercept” of the Reaper, including dumping fuel on the drone and […]
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The optics surrounding PM Antony Albanese’s visit to India were unprecedented in the bilateral relationship. Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister Albanese enjoyed the friendly cricket match between the two teams in Ahmedabad, rightly so, considering how cricket has been the common factor that had familiarised Indian citizens about Australia as a country, and possibly, […]
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The Saudis are talking to the Iranians. Yemen’s Houthi rebels are talking to the Saudis. And the Yemeni government? Well, it does not seem to be talking to anyone. Or at least that is the impression as months-long negotiations between Saudi officials and the Houthis are rumoured to be bearing fruit. This notion gained new […]
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Saudi Arabia announced on March 12 the creation of a new national airline, part of a plan to turn Riyadh into a global aviation hub rivalling regional leaders like Dubai and Doha. “Riyadh Air “aims to launch flights to more than 100 destinations around the world by 2030,” the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. […]
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BEIJING: China warned on Tuesday that Australia, Britain and the United States were treading a “path of error and danger” after they unveiled a nuclear-powered submarines deal. Australia announced on Monday it would buy up to five US nuclear-powered submarines, then build a new model with US and British technology under an ambitious plan to […]
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