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Lahore: Pakistan’s former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri recalled fond memories of his association with the late Indian prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh, who died in Delhi on Thursday night. In an interview with PTI in Lahore on Friday, Mr Kasuri said that Dr Singh will be remembered in history as a man who devoted…
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. File | Photo Credit: AP Iran’s top diplomat warned Friday (December 27, 2024) against “destructive interference” in Syria’s future and said decisions should lie solely with the country’s people, writing in Chinese State media as he visited Beijing. Abbas Araghchi touched down in the Chinese capital on Friday afternoon, Iranian…
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A man who killed 35 people in a car attack in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai last month was sentenced to death. File | Photo Credit: AP A man who killed 35 people in a car attack in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai last month was sentenced to death on Friday (December 27,…
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Israeli Zakka volunteers clean the scene of a stabbing attack in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv, on December 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP A suspected Palestinian attacker from the occupied West Bank stabbed a woman in her eighties to death in the coastal city of Herzliya on Friday, according to Israeli police and medics….
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San Diego, California: We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked. Squirt had notoriously accurate aim. As a comparative psychologist, I’m used to assaults…
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File photo of Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning | Photo Credit: AP China on Friday (December 27, 2024) defended its plan to build the world’s largest dam on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet, saying the project will not “negatively affect” lower riparian states and that safety issues have been addressed through decades of studies….
Rescuers transport wounded passengers from a medical plane after the Azerbaijani Airline crashed, near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, upon their arrival at the Heydar Aliyev International Airport outside on December 26, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Russia’s aviation chief said Friday (December 27, 2024) that a Ukrainian drone attack was…
Beijing: A man who killed 35 people in a car attack in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai last month was sentenced to death on Friday, state media reported. On November 11, 62-year-old Fan Weiqiu deliberately drove through people exercising outside a sports complex in his small SUV, the worst attack in China since 2014….
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Seoul, South Korea: South Korean lawmakers impeached the acting president on Friday as the country struggles to shake off political turmoil sparked by his predecessor’s declaration of marital law. Here’s a look at how the second impeachment of a South Korean head of state happened in just two weeks, and what might happen next. WHAT…
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The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park, Feb. 2, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. | Photo Credit: AP The Chinese government placed sanctions on seven companies on Friday in response to recent U.S. announcements of military sales and aid to Taiwan, the self-governing island that China claims as part of its territory. The…
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