The show of force followed repeated calls from party representatives for disaffected Socialists to support Feijóo’s investiture to impede Sánchez from striking a deal with the separatists. On Sunday, 40,000 people according to the central government and up to 60,000 according to the Popular Party joined a protest and rally in Madrid against a possible […]
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Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar has said “fair” elections were possible without PTI Chairman Imran Khan, who is currently incarcerated in a graft case, and his party leaders jailed following violent riots in the country on May 9. However, the premier also stated that thousands of PTI members, who were not a part of “unlawful […]
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calling for Britain to rejoin the bloc. The National Rejoin March (NRM) gathered near Hyde Park and was due to culminate in Parliament Square as supportive motorists beeped their horns. Protesters brandished placards reading “The road to rejoin the EU starts here”, and “Rejoin, rejoice”. The NRM movement backs a return to membership of the […]
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MOSCOW: Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Sunday the likelihood was rising that ethnic Armenians would flee the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh and blamed Russia for failing to ensure Armenian security. If 120,000 people go down the Lachin corridor to Armenia, the small South Caucasian country could face both a humanitarian and political crisis. […]
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Security forces have surrounded at least 30 armed gunmen hours after a police officer was shot dead in Kosovo, the country’s prime minister says. Albin Kurti said the group was in a monastery in the northern village of Banjska and urged them to surrender. Mr Kurti has accused Serbia of backing what he called a […]
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LAHORE: The legal fraternity has strongly urged Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa to ensure the supremacy of law in order to bring the country back on the right track while bemoaning the prevailing scenario where it appeared that “powerful camps have decided against obeying court directives”. Speaking at a seminar organised by […]
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock joined a growing chorus of critics of the European Union’s new migration deal with Tunisia, saying human rights and procedural faults ruled it out as a blueprint for the future. Her letter to the EU executive European Commission highlights the EU’s inner conflict between those pursuing ever-tougher policies to stop […]
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Two human rights activists visiting Faisalabad from Karachi were allegedly briefly detained and tortured by police, it emerged on Saturday, following which police accused the duo of misbehaviour in its rebuttal. The incident was raised by lawyer and rights activist Jibran Nasir on Friday in a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter. In a […]
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ANKARA: Pakistani and Indian officials participated in a two-day meeting convened by a neutral expert in Vienna to resolve the long-standing water dispute between the two South Asian nuclear neighbours. According to the Indian Foreign Ministry, senior advocate Harish Salve attended the meeting as India’s lead counsel. “A delegation from India, led by the secretary […]
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BEIJING-A prominent Uyghur academic has been reportedly jailed for life by China for “endangering state security”. Rahile Dawut’s sentence was confirmed after she appealed against a 2018, according to the US-based Dui Hua Foundation rights group. The 57-year-old professor lost her appeal this month. China has been accused of crimes against humanity against the Uyghur […]
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