Washington Watch In recent weeks, there have been a number of irresponsible op-eds pressing the Biden Administration to supply more advanced US weapons to Ukraine, arguing that the only acceptable outcome to the conflict is a “total Russian defeat.” It is maddening how often these “pundits” have wrongly sought to justify the expanded use of...
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EU, UAE pledge to rally support for renewable energy goals
Brazil inflation falls to new multi-year low
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Mohammad Rizwan offers prayer on streets of USA, video triggers heated online debate
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Additional tax on prize bonds proposed in Budget 2023-24
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Excise dept shares vehicle’s details of PTI chief, Bushra Bibi
US issues air quality alert to millions as Canadian wildfires rage on
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The irony of becoming what you once hated
Resistance is a 2020 biographical drama film based on true events of the Holocaust – indeed one of the darkest chapters in human history. The film opens in Munich, Nazi Germany, 1938. In the opening scene, Bella Ramsey who is playing Elsbeth (aged 10-12) in the movie, in the middle of the night hears screams from...
Pence enters race challenging Trump for 2024 with ‘considerations beyond nomination’
Former US vice president Mike Pence filed the paperwork for his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Monday, and is expected to formally announce his candidacy in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday, while his former boss, president Donald Trump leads the polls at this early stage of race for the GOP’s presidential nomination....
Brazil inflation falls to new multi-year low
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s annual inflation rate fell for the 11th straight month in May, dropping below four percent for the first time since 2020, officials said Wednesday. The rate fell to 3.94 percent, down from 4.18 percent in April, said national statistics institute IBGE – bolstering President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s ongoing push...
Mohammad Rizwan offers prayer on streets of USA, video triggers heated online debate
Star Pakistan keeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan is currently in the United States, as he joined Harvard Business School’s executive education program along with his teammate Babar Azam. While the program concluded on Saturday, June 3, Rizwan is still spending some time in Boston, where he was recently spotted offering Namaz, a religious Islam prayer, on the...
US issues air quality alert to millions as Canadian wildfires rage on
The sun, appearing orange due to smoke and haze from forest fires, rises behind the skyline in New York City, New York, US. — Reuters/File Authorities in the US have circulated an air quality advisory to over 100 million of its citizens as the smoke from the wildfires in eastern Canada has deteriorated the quality...
Iran’s Raisi to visit Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela
TEHRAN: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is set to take off this weekend for a tour to Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, state media reported Wednesday. Raisi’s tour of “friendly countries” begins Sunday and aims to raise Iran’s “level of economic, political and scientific cooperation” with the three US-sanctioned Latin American nations, the IRNA state news agency...
Blinken looks to travel to China for talks in coming weeks: US official
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China for talks in the coming weeks, an official said on Tuesday, months after Washington’s top diplomat scrapped a planned trip over a suspected Chinese spy balloon that flew across the US. The visit is intended by Washington to be a major step toward what...
King Charles to abdicate for Prince William after new poll?
King Charles III, who was officially crowned on May 6, has been asked to abdicate for his eldest son Prince William, according to a leading pollster. The members of Commonwealth nations reportedly believe Kate Middleton’s husband William would make a better monarch than his father. The Prince of William is favoured to take over from...
Air India sends relief plane after US-bound jet stops in Russia
Air India sent an aircraft on Wednesday to pick up passengers whose Delhi to San Francisco flight was diverted to Russia’s Far East after their Boeing 777 plane developed engine trouble, India’s aviation minister said. The flight with 216 passengers and 16 crew members was diverted to Magadan on Russia’s eastern coast, over 5,900 kilometres...