23-12-2023 TOKYO: Japan is going through a “once in a generation” political crisis, analysts say, as the government fights to clean up its image in the face of a corruption scandal. Four cabinet ministers from the long-term ruling party have resigned in the past fortnight, as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida …

23-12-2023 GAZA CITY: The mother and grandfather of five-month-old Palestinian baby Muhammad Hani al-Zahar held his dead body in front of a hospital following the resumption of hostilities in Gaza on the first day of December but when footage of the grief-stricken family holding the body in their arms went …

23-12-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s drugs regulator has banned the use of an anti-cold drug combination in children aged below four and ordered that drugs should be labelled accordingly, in the wake of the deaths of at least 141 children globally linked to cough syrups. The …

23-12-2023 WASHINGTON: Washington does not see any change in China’s tone on Taiwan, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told CNBC on Thursday when asked about media reports that Chinese President Xi Jinping told President Joe Biden that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China. NBC News and other media outlets reported …

23-12-2023 LONDON: The budget picture for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has deteriorated, official data showed on Thursday, but a smaller debt interest bill thanks to slowing inflation could yet restore some of his limited room for pre-election tax cuts. Public sector net borrowing, excluding state-owned banks, totalled 116.4 billion …

23-12-2023 WASHINTON: Three Tacoma, Washington, police officers were acquitted on Thursday in the killing of an unarmed Black man who’s dying pleas for air sparked protests in 2020, in a case bearing parallels to the murder of George Floyd in the same year. Officers Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins were …

23-12-2023 NEW YORK: Oil prices settled lower on Thursday after Angola said it would exit the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), raising questions about the producer group’s efforts to support prices by limiting global supplies. Brent crude futures settled down 31 cents at $79.39 a barrel. U.S. West …

22-12-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ QUETTA: “He was our pampered brother. He would come home at night and put his head in our mother’s lap … If you look at my mother’s condition, it is as if she is dead.” The death of Younus Baloch’s brother, Balaach …

22-12-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report OKLAHOMA CITY/ ISLAMABAD: The judiciary of United States of America (USA) is not more than Pakistani justice system while the judges are exactly equal as Pak judges’ ability, experts told PMI. An Oklahoma judge has exonerated a man who spent nearly 50 years …

22-12-2023 BERLIN/ PRAGUE: A gunman killed at least 14 people and wounded at least 25 others at a Prague university on Thursday before he was killed, according to police and Prague emergency services, marking the country’s worst-ever mass shooting. Czech police responded to the shooting at Charles University’s faculty of …