Cyril Ramaphosa re-elected South African president
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been reelected by lawmakers for a second term after his African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance struck a historic deal to form a coalition government by setting aside their rivalry. Ramaphosa’s ANC lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in 30 years in...
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Lahore HC Chief Justice rues ‘interference’ in judiciary
A Pakistani high court chief justice on Friday claimed that he received written and verbal complaints about interference in the judiciary by a “few institutions” of the country, in an oblique reference to the powerful spy agencies. Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmad, while addressing a local bar...
PTI-picked negotiator willing to hold talks with Sharif, Zardari
Mahmood Khan Achakzai, the chairman of the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP), who was picked by Imran Khan’s party to lead the negotiations with Pakistan’s ruling coalition, on Friday expressed willingness to hold talks with PML-N president Nawaz Sharif and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, according to a media report...
Pak PM invites former ally JUI-F chief to join ruling coalition
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has invited his former ally JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman to become a part of the ruling coalition led by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and play a role in resolving the political tensions in the country, according to a media report on Friday. Sharif, who...
UN leaders, aid groups seek release of 17 staffers held by Yemen’s rebels
The heads of six UN agencies and three international humanitarian organisations issued a joint appeal Thursday to Yemen’s Houthi rebels for the immediate release of 17 members of their staff who were recently detained along with many others also being held by the Iranian-backed group. Their appeal was echoed by a...
Muslims start Hajj against backdrop of destructive Israel-Hamas war
In sweltering temperatures, Muslim pilgrims in Mecca converged on a vast tent camp in the desert on Friday, officially opening the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Ahead of their trip, they circled the cube-shaped Kaaba in the Grand Mosque, Islam’s holiest site. More than 1.5 million pilgrims from around the world have already...
S Africa’s Parliament is choosing president in a vote with unprecedented uncertainty
For the first time in 30 years, South African lawmakers will elect a president on Friday with the outcome not a mere formality. Cyril Ramaphosa is seeking a second term as leader of Africa’s most industrialised economy but his African National Congress party has been weakened after losing its long-held majority...
Kuwait building blaze caused by electrical short circuit
The death toll of Indians killed in the massive fire in Kuwait has risen to 46 with one more person succumbing to injuries as authorities said that an electrical short circuit in the room of the guard on the ground floor of the building caused the blaze that killed 50...
