Banks across the eurozone are resilient, stable and strong, European Union leaders insisted on Friday at the end of a two-day summit in Brussels. But their words stood in stark contrast with the harsh reality of the financial markets, where Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest lender, was suffering a precipitous decline in value, with its shares […]
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A report published by the United Nations Institute of Water, Environment, and Health has placed Pakistan among 23 other countries in the “critically water insecure” category. The Global Water Security 2023 Assessment published by the UN University on Thursday said 33 countries in total from three geographic regions were water secure while all regions had […]
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Srinagar- Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha said that a large population of tribal families dependent on forests in the Union Territory have been granted their forest rights for which they have been waiting for years. Sinha also asked the Tribal Affairs Department and the district administrations to work in mission mode for granting […]
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The United States and Canada have reportedly reached an agreement that will allow border officials to turn back asylum seekers heading north across their shared border without considering their petitions for sanctuary, sparking outcry from immigrant groups. US and Canadian media outlets reported the tentative agreement on Thursday, as US President Joe Biden visits the […]
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NEW DELHI: India’s parliament disqualified the leader of the opposition Congress party, Rahul Gandhi, on Friday, a day after a magistrate’s court jailed him for two years in a defamation case linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surname. Gandhi “stands disqualified from the membership of Lok Sabha”, a parliament notice said, referring to the lower […]
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A total of 457 people were arrested and 441 security forces injured on Thursday during nationwide protests against French President Emmanuel Macron’s pensions reform, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. Speaking to the CNews channel on Friday morning, Darmanin also said that there had been 903 fires lit in the streets of Paris during by far […]
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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — China attempted on Thursday to block a prominent Uyghur activist from speaking at the United Nations Human Rights Council, where he demanded the body urgently address allegations of serious violations by Beijing. Dolkun Isa, a Uyghur activist based in Germany and president of the World Uyghur Congress, spoke up during a general […]
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Bordeaux town hall has been set on fire as French protests continued over plans to raise the pension age. More than a million people took to the streets across France on Thursday, with 119,000 in Paris, according to figures from the interior ministry. Police fired tear gas at protesters in the capital and 80 people […]
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KYIV: A top Ukrainian commander on Thursday threatened an impending counterattack against Russian forces in the frontline town of Bakhmut as President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Kherson, still partially controlled by Russia. Oleksandr Syrsky, commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, said Russian troops were “exhausted” near Bakhmut, the scene of the longest and bloodiest battle since the […]
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday that decisions regarding the constitutionality, feasibility and timing of provincial and general elections “rest solely with Pakistan’s institutions”, clarifying that there was “no requirement under Pakistan’s Extended Fund Facility-supported programme which could interfere with the country’s ability to undertake constitutional activities”. The statement from the international monetary […]
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