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Incarcerated former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan on May 16 appeared before the Supreme Court via a video link in a case about changes in the anti-corruption laws but did not get to speak as a petitioner in the matter. However, a leaked image of the 71-year-old founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party’s image…
Presiding judge Nawaf Salam, third from right, opens the hearings at the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands, on May 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The United Nations’ top court on May 16 opened two days of hearings into a request from South Africa to press Israel to halt its military operation…
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Media reported that the suspected gunman was a 71-year-old writer. (File) Banska Bystrica: Authorities charged an alleged gunman Thursday with the attempted murder of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, saying the shooting was sparked by the election win last month of a Fico ally. The premier’s condition has stabilised but was still “very serious” a…
Residents have been ordered to boil water before drinking it A school in UK’s Brixham has been forced to shut after hundreds of people in the town were struck down with a diarrhoea bug caused by contaminated tap water. As per a Metro report, the illness is believed to be linked to cryptosporidium, a parasitic bug…
The story so far: Pakistan-occupied Kashmir has been rocked by deadly violence in the past few days, leaving at least four dead and over 100 injured in clashes over the soaring prices of essential goods like wheat flour, fuel, and electricity. The recent wave of unrest began on May 10 after the overnight arrest of…
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Russia has engaged over the past decade in a widespread crackdown on LGBTQ rights. (File) London: A transgender politician from Russia said on Thursday that he had reverted to his gender assigned at birth, in an unusual message amid a crackdown on LGBTQ rights in the country. Roman Alyoshin, who previously went by the name…
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The story so far: India on May 14 sent fresh consignments of relief materials, including medicines and essential supplies, to the flood-affected people of Kenya, as the nation continues to reel under the impact of incessant rainfall and flooding. At least 2,000 schools in Kenya could not open on Monday despite an announcement to this…
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Slovakia’s Deputy PM and Defence Minister Robert Kalinak (left) and Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok (right) deliver joint press statements at the government headquarters in Bratislava, Slovakia, on May 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The Slovak Interior Minister said on May 16 that a “lone wolf” has been charged in the shooting that seriously…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed the genocide accusations as outrageous. (File) The Hague: The International Court of Justice is holding hearings this week in a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide in the Gaza war and seeking an emergency halt to its Rafah offensive. WHAT IS THE ICJ? The ICJ,…
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A U.N. resolution sponsored by Germany and Rwanda to establish an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs has sparked protests and a strong lobbying campaign against its adoption by Serbia’s President and the Bosnian Serb leadership. The U.N. General Assembly has scheduled a debate on…
