Motorcycle bomb kills 2 people and wounds 5 in Pakistan's southwest It's the latest unrest to hit Baluchistan province, where militants have tried to target a naval facility and a government building in recent weeks. Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for ... 04/7/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Police officers, militants die in weekend violence in Pakistan Also Saturday, Pakistan's army said that security forces killed eight militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Dera Ismail Khan district. According to an official statement, the eight men died after an ... 04/6/2024 - 7:16 pm | View Link
India ordered assassinations in Pakistan by agent pretending to be journalist – report He claimed Islamabad had credible evidence that the Indian government was responsible for two assassinations on Pakistani soil. Indian Foreign Ministry officials told The Independent they have ... 04/5/2024 - 3:37 am | View Link
Indian government ordered killings in Pakistan, intelligence officials claim Allegations of up to 20 assassinations since 2020 follow Canada’s accusation of Delhi role in murders of dissidents The Indian government ... with intelligence officials in both countries ... 04/4/2024 - 12:01 am | View Link
Six killed in militant attack on Pakistan naval base, say officials officials said on Tuesday. Monday's attack on the Turbat base in southwestern Pakistan was the second assault by ethnic Baloch militants on a military facility in the past week. "We escaped a huge ... 03/25/2024 - 10:26 pm | View Link
Decorated Chinese athlete He Jie had been stripped of his Beijing half-marathon win Friday after an investigation found that the three African runners who competed alongside him had “actively slowed down” to let him cross the finish line first during the race on Sunday, April 14.
He won the 21 km.
ISLAMABAD — An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying on Friday that it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression.
The ban on X has been in place since February, when the party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan announced a nationwide protest against alleged election rigging ahead of the Feb.
BEIJING — San Francisco is the latest U. S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the panda loan in Beijing on Friday, alongside officials from China Wildlife Conservation Association, or CWCA. It will be San Francisco’s first time hosting the beloved animals long-term—the result of a yearlong advocacy campaign, Breed said.
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San Diego previously announced it was receiving two pandas back in February.
China is home to the only natural habitat for pandas and owns most of the black-and-white bears in the world.
Earlier this month, two Indian writers published an ode to their Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Written in lyric form and titled “Forever In Our Hearts,” it recounts his achievements while singing his praises in highly effusive language. “With courage and wisdom/you show citizens the way,” it gushes. “Oh Modi, oh Modi/their hopes never sway/A people’s beacon, in whom they see light/Oh Modi, oh Modi, guiding day and night.”
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Such reverence captures the essence of Modi’s popularity.
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.