International

16-07-2024 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani government has said it plans to ban Pakistan Terheek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The announcement by Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Monday came days after the Supreme Court handed a major legal victory to the PTI by …

16-07-2024 PARIS/ NEW DELHI: As Narendra Modi begins his third term as Prime Minister, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned about the growing campaigns against journalists perpetrated by extreme right-wing nationalist networks. The authorities who have remained silent on the subject must put an end to these attacks. Investigative journalist …

16-07-2024 JERUSALEM: The Israeli military says senior Hamas commander Rafa Salama was killed in an air strike in Gaza on Saturday. Hamas has not confirmed the report. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said that Israel’s strike hit a camp for displaced people in a designated humanitarian zone in Khan …

16-07-2024 MANILA: A small town mayor in the Philippines who has been accused of being a Chinese spy has gone into hiding, officials said. Police could not carry out a warrant for the arrest of Alice Guo over the weekend as she was not at any of her known addresses. …

16-07-2024 NEW YORK: Elon Musk’s social media site X has been accused by the European Union of breaching its online content rules, with its “verified” blue tick accounts having the potential to “deceive” users. The bloc’s tech regulator said users could be duped into thinking the identity of those with …

16-07-2024 MOGADISHU: A car bomb has exploded outside a cafe in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, killing at least nine and injuring several others as patrons were watching the final of the Euro 2024 football tournament on TV, the government said. The al-Qaeda-linked armed group, al-Shabab, has claimed responsibility for Sunday’s deadly …

15-07-2024 BUTLER: Donald Trump says he is “supposed to be dead” after surviving an assassination attempt on Saturday night. He says he will “bring the country together” at the Republican convention this week and will give a “whole different speech” to the “humdinger” he had planned. On Sunday night, President …

15-07-2024 MOGADISHU: Dozens people have been killed and injured after gunfire erupted between security forces and inmates at a prison in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. The confrontation broke out on Saturday at the city’s main prison when armed inmates attempted to escape, prompting an exchange of fire that left five prisoners …

15-07-2024 PARIS: “Of course, we went to vote for Melenchon,” says Houcine, a 49-year-old butcher of Moroccan descent in Belleville, a diverse Parisian neighborhood. “On Sunday, I went to the polling station again, but it was closed. A woman explained to me that the left candidate had already won and …

15-07-2024 TEHRAN: The United States should realize that Iran will not respond to pressure, President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian said in a statement published on Saturday, in which he also highlighted his country’s friendship with China and Russia. Pezeshkian, a relative moderate who beat a hardline rival in election, opens new tabs, …