US President Joe Biden struck a note of confidence on Tuesday on meeting his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the upcoming G20 summit in Bali this Fall. Asked if he would see Xi Jinping at the gathering of world leaders, the president said, “If he’s there I’m sure I’ll see him.” The comments come […]
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LAHORE: An accountability court in Lahore on Wednesday deferred the indictment of Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shehbaz in a Rs16 billion money laundering case after the prime minister and his son moved fresh pleas seeking acquittal in the probe. Sharif and his family are facing charges of money laundering of billions of rupees […]
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VIENNA: Iran’s stock of uranium enriched to up to 60%, close to weapons-grade, has grown to enough, if enriched further, for a nuclear bomb, a report by the United Nations nuclear watchdog showed on Wednesday. Passing that threshold is a milestone in the unravelling of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, which […]
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TAIPEI: A group of French lawmakers landed in Taipei on Wednesday, the first high-level European delegation since China conducted huge war drills to protest a visit to the island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Democratic Taiwan exists under constant threat of an invasion by authoritarian China, which claims the self-ruled island as part of […]
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Pakistan is scrambling to widen a breach in its biggest lake to prevent it from overflowing amid unprecedented floods that have inundated a third of the South Asian nation, as the United Nations warned of more misery to come. Flooding, brought by record monsoon rainfall and glacier melt in the north, has impacted 33 million […]
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NEW DELHI — India and Bangladesh reached an agreement on sharing the waters of a common river and pledged to boost trade links as they reaffirmed close ties Tuesday during a visit to India by Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. Calling Dhaka “our biggest development and trade partner in the region,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra […]
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The European Union is proposing to make it more expensive and harder for Russian citizens to get visas. Russians wanting to enter the EU will face a lengthier application process and see fees rise from €35 (£30; $34) to €80 (£69; $79). This should continue as long as Moscow wages its war of aggression against […]
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SRINAGAR: People in Jammu and Kashmir are reaping the benefits of road connectivity which they were deprived of for past seventy years. The insensitivity of earlier regimes in road connectivity had deprived many areas of development and prosperity so and so that many hamlets in the Himalayan region were forbidden. The road construction in Jammu […]
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“This is it folks,” Boris Johnson said in his final address to the nation as prime minister on Tuesday. “In only a couple of hours, I will be in Balmoral to see Her Majesty the Queen and the torch will finally be passed to a new Conservative leader,” Johnson said in front of 10 Downing […]
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Islamabad: Qatar has declined Pakistan’s investment request for a deposit of at least USD 2 billion, media reports said citing sources and added that the had been altered now in a bid to gain Doha’s favour. According to media portal Business Recorder quoting sources, the middle Eastern country has turned down Pakistan’s finance minister Dr […]
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