Albania’s constitutional court has approved a controversial agreement to send asylum seekers in Italy to Albania. Under the agreement, the Italian government will build two centres in northern Albania to process36,000 people hoping to reach Italy each year. The deal will now have to be ratified by the Albanian parliament. However, it is likely to […]
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Protesting French farmers surrounded Paris Monday using tractor barricades, amid a standoff with the government over regulations and shrinking incomes. The protesters say that amid the ongoing Ukraine war, fertilizer prices and other inputs for livestock feeding and crop-growing have increased and have eaten into their income. They also argue that their agricultural sector is […]
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KARACHI: In a move aimed at curbing corruption and enhancing security features, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has announced plans to replace almost all currency notes currently in circulation starting February 2024. Speaking to journalists ahead of the monetary policy press conference on Monday, SBP Governor Jameel Ahmad outlined the central bank’s strategy for […]
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Iran denied U.S. and British accusations that it supported militant groups behind a drone strike in Jordan that killed three U.S. military personnel, Tehran’s official IRNA news agency reported on Monday. “These claims are made with specific political goals to reverse the realities of the region,” IRNA quoted foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani as saying. […]
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Thousands of Sikhs residents in the US state of California are set to vote in San Francisco Sunday on a referendum that is aimed at creating an independent state in Indian Punjab called Khalistan, according to organizers. Known as “The Khalistan Referendum,” the vote also calls attention to persecution of Sikhs in India. The Sikhs […]
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BERLIN – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has voiced concerns over the rise of far-right extremism as his country marks Holocaust Memorial Day. He warned of “neo-Nazis and their dark networks”, and called on people to fight racism and anti-Semitism. Thousands marched in Dusseldorf on Saturday in the latest in a series of protests against the […]
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DOHA/ GENEVA: UN officials urged countries to reconsider a pause in funding for the UN agency for Palestinians on Sunday, vowing that any staff found to be involved in Hamas’ attack on Israel would be punished and warning that aid for some two million people in Gaza was at stake. At least nine countries, including […]
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Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with Ministry of Defence officials to embezzle almost $40m earmarked to buy 100,000 mortar shells for the war with Russia, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has reported. The SBU said late Saturday that five people have been charged, with one person detained while trying to cross the […]
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After complaints of journalists’ harassment which did not go unnoticed before the top court, caretaker Federal Minister for Information Murtaza Solangi said Sunday that the state institutions probing into anti-judiciary campaigns reserve the legal right to issue notices. Addressing a press conference besides the Director-General of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Ahmad Ishaq Jahangir and […]
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Three US troops have been killed and 25 injured in a drone attack on a US base in Jordan, near the Syria border. US President Joe Biden says while facts are still being gathered, the attack was carried out by Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq. “Today, America’s heart is heavy”, Biden says, […]
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