President Arif Alvi on Wednesday has asked the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to release the schedule for polls in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Punjab in accordance with the Constitution, reported Aaj News. As per the Constitution of Pakistan, elections have to held within 90 days of dissolution of provincial assemblies. In a letter, Alvi stated...
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Copper climbs on Powell’s remarks, supply headwinds
BEIJING: Copper prices rose on Wednesday, as investors saw comments by US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on interest rates as less hawkish, while ongoing supply disruptions also supported the metal. Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange was up 1.1% at $9,021 a tonne by 0732 GMT. The dollar eased on Wednesday after Powell...
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President Alvi directs ECP to ‘immediately announce’ election date for KP, Punjab assemblies – Pakistan Observer
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In State of the Union speech, Biden challenges Republicans on debt and economy
Making his first address to a joint session of Congress since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in January, Biden pledged to work with opposition lawmakers even as he sparred with them in the chamber. “To my Republican friends, if we could work together in the last Congress, there is no reason we...
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Panama says Iran warships might be allowed through canal
Iranian naval ships will be allowed to sail through the Panama Canal as long as they abide by international norms, Panamanian authorities said Tuesday following reports that Teheran was sending vessels to the strategic waterway. An Iranian military presence in the Canal would anger the United States, which built the channel linking the Atlantic and...
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Pilots walk away from water-bombing plane crash in Australia
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Police seize enough cocaine to supply New Zealand for 30 years
Police said Wednesday they had seized enough cocaine to supply New Zealand for 30 years, after snaring a massive bundle of drugs floating in the Pacific Ocean. New Zealand police commissioner Andrew Coster told reporters the haul — containing 81 bales of cocaine — weighed 3.2 tonnes and had a street value of around $316...
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Adeed Fayaz: Off-duty Pakistani-American cop shot dead in robbery
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Children pulled from rubble as Turkey-Syria quake toll tops 8,300
Mesut Hancer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, who died in the earthquake in Kahramanmaras, close to the quake´s epicentre, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country´s southeast, on February 7, 2023.. — AFP Volunteers stand on rubble of a destroyed building in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey, a day after a 7.8-magnitude...