BRUSSELS: Poland has filed legal challenges attempting to annul three of the European Union’s main climate change policies, which the Polish government argues would worsen social inequality, document published on Monday showed. The legal actions, brought by Warsaw to the EU Court of Justice in July, target policies including a law agreed this year which […]
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PARIS: French authorities are to ban the wearing in school of abaya dresses worn by some Muslim women, the education minister said Sunday, arguing the garment violated France’s strict secular laws in education. “It will no longer be possible to wear an abaya at school,” Education Minister Gabriel Attal told TF1 television, saying he would […]
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Nearly 1.000 Syrian migrants demonstrated on 27 August in the centre of Vienna to show their support for the new wave of mass protests in Syria. It was an extraordinary and very enthusiastic demonstration, reflecting the electrifying spirit of the Syrian masses who are determined to bring down the tyranny of Assad. Comrade Michael Pröbsting, […]
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France’s powerful Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Sunday issued a stark warning over the danger of far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen winning the presidency in the next election, while burnishing his own ambition to succeed Emmanuel Macron in 2027. A sequence of bold statements by Darmanin have rocked French politics over the summer holiday period […]
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ANKARA: Afghanistan’s interim Taliban government has rejected a UN Security Council report claiming that several terrorist groups, including Dai’sh and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), are present in the country and have access to weapons left by US-led foreign forces. “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan once again rejects these baseless accusations and, while calling for transparent involvement […]
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DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Iran’s enrichment of uranium continues based on a framework established by the country’s parliament, nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami said Sunday when asked about reports regarding Tehran slowing down its 60% enrichment. “Our nuclear enrichment continues based on the strategic framework law,” Eslami said, referring to a related legislation. Earlier this month, […]
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Violent sectarian clashes erupted between the residents of Chilas and Skardu when one Skardu based Shia scholar, Alama Zaqi Baqar, gave a provoking statement against Ahl-e-Sunnat and ‘Muavia’ Sahaba e Rasool. In response, the Sunni dominant residents of Chilas have warned Pak Govt to take action against the said leader or else they will kill […]
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has made a rare visit to Xinjiang, calling on officials to conserve “hard-won social stability” in a region where Beijing is accused of abuses that the United Nations has said could amount to “crimes against humanity”. The Chinese government has pursued a years-long campaign against what it describes as “terrorism” and […]
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Russia’s Investigative Committee has confirmed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash. The committee said in a statement Sunday that after forensic testing, all 10 bodies recovered at the site of the crash were identified, and their identities “conform to the manifest.” Russia’s civil aviation authority earlier this week said Prigozhin, along […]
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With the aim to promote the art and culture of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Sub-Office Kathua of J-K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages organized a musical programme here on Saturday at Keso Ramgarh in Vijaypur which is the last village of Samba district and close to the Indo-Pak border. The villagers […]
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