‘Suicide bombing that killed five Chinese planned in Af’
The Pakistan Army on Tuesday said the suicide bombing that killed five Chinese nationals in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in March was planned in Afghanistan and carried out by an Afghan national. Addressing a press conference, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) chief Maj-Gen Ahmed Sharif accused Afghanistan of allowing militants...
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‘Gaza may be Joe Biden’s Vietnam’
In April, Bernie Sanders repeatedly stood shoulder to shoulder with President Joe Biden, promoting their joint accomplishments on health care and climate at formal White House events while eviscerating Donald Trump in a widely viewed campaign TikTok video. Then just last week, Sanders was bluntly warning that the crisis in Gaza...
Police break up pro-Palestinian student protest in Berlin
German police on Tuesday broke up a protest by several hundred pro-Palestinian activists who had occupied a courtyard at Berlin’s Free University earlier in the day, the latest such action by authorities as protests that have roiled campuses in the United States spread across Europe. The protesters had put up about...
Israeli forces seize Rafah crossing in Gaza
Israeli tanks seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing on Tuesday as Israel brushed off urgent warnings from close allies and moved into the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remained on a knife’s edge. The UN warned of a potential collapse of the flow of aid to...
New vaccine may be effective against all coronaviruses
A team of scientists from the world’s leading universities have developed a new all-in-one vaccine that they hope can protect humans against a broad range of coronaviruses, including ones that are yet to emerge. The research published in ‘Nature Nanotechnology’ on Monday is based on a new approach to vaccine development...
‘Gulf Kingdom considers Pak high priority biz opportunity’
(): A senior Saudi official on Monday said that the oil-rich Gulf Kingdom’s government and companies consider Pakistan a high priority economic, investment and business opportunity. Saudi Deputy Investment Minister Ibrahim Almubarak made the remarks while addressing a two-day Pakistan-Saudi Arabia Investment Conference, which began here on Monday. A 50-member Saudi...
Chad holds prez polls after years of military rule
(): Voters in Chad headed to the polls on Monday to cast their ballot in a long delayed presidential election that is set to end three years of military rule under interim president, Mahamat Deby Itno. Deby Itno seized power after his father who ran the country for more than...
Pak CJ slams panel for probe into extremist group-led sit-in
Pakistan’s Chief Justice Faez Isa on Monday slammed a fact-finding commission set up to investigate the extremist group Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan’s 2017 Faizabad sit-in, saying that apparently, the committee’s “mandate was to acquit” former ISI chief Faiz Hameed “by going out of the way”. Isa’s remarks came as a three-member bench of...
