Pak court suspends EC decision to appoint bureaucrats as ROs
A top Pakistani court has suspended the election commission’s decision to appoint bureaucrats as Returning Officers (ROs) for the February 8 general elections, prompting a war of words between political parties, with two of them terming it as a “conspiracy” to postpone the polls. Lahore High Court on Wednesday announced a...
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No peace in Ukraine until goals achieved: Putin
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Pope calls for treaty to regulate AI
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Taiwan’s Nationalist Party leader visits China
A leader of Taiwan’s main opposition Nationalist Party is visiting rival China less than one month before the self-governing island republic holds elections for president and the legislature under intense pressure from Beijing. In a news release Thursday, the party — also known as the Kuomintang or KMT — said...
Court upholds conviction of ex-Kosovo Liberation Army commander
(): Appeals judges at a special Kosovo court upheld Thursday the convictions of a former commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army for arbitrarily detaining and torturing prisoners and murdering one of them during Kosovo’s war for independence, but reduced his sentence by four years. The commander, Salih Mustafa, was convicted...
3 suspected of planning terror attacks held in Denmark
Three people were arrested in coordinated actions across Denmark and one person in the Netherlands on suspicion of plotting to carry out “an act of terror,” Danish police said on Thursday. Flemming Drejer, operative head of Denmark’s Security and Intelligence Service, known by its acronym PET, said that Denmark was...
Ramaswamy evokes Old Testament’s Cyrus
(): Republican US presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has said he aligns some core principles of his Hindu faith with the “Judeo-Christian values” but acknowledged that he would not be the best president to spread Christianity. The 38-year-old Indian-origin multimillionaire biotech entrepreneur on Wednesday night appeared on a CNN town hall in...
House approves impeachment inquiry into Biden
The House on Wednesday authorised the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, with every Republican rallying behind the politically charged process despite lingering concerns among some in the party that the investigation has yet to produce evidence of misconduct by the president. The 221-212 party-line vote put the entire House Republican...
Israel vows to fight on in Gaza despite deadly ambush
Israel has vowed to keep fighting in Gaza until it crushes Hamas after one of the deadliest single battles of the war for its soldiers, even as it faces mounting international calls for a cease-fire and unease on the part of its closest ally, the United States. The ambush a...
Japan court convicts three ex-servicemen in sexual assault case
A Japanese court on Tuesday convicted three former soldiers in a sexual assault case that authorities had dropped until the victim, a former service member, came forward demanding a reinvestigation, prompting a military-wide harassment probe and challenging a still male-dominated society. The Fukushima District Court sentenced the former Japanese army...
