Russian senators adopt ‘extremist’ bill that would bar critics from polls By: AFP on June 2, 2021The upper house of Russia’s parliament on Wednesday overwhelmingly backed legislation that is expected to be used to ban allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny from running in elections. The bill approved by the Federation Council would make it impossible to run in elections for leaders, sponsors and rank-and-file members of “extremist” organisations, a […]
Robbers take away Rs 1 million from Sundar superstore By: Ijaz Khan Sahu on June 2, 2021 LAHORE: Six unidentified robbers took away Rs 1 million from a superstore in Sundar, Lahore, late on Tuesday. The robbery took place at Chaudhary Super Store on Multan Road. According to a report, robbers arrived to the crime scene on motorcycles, entered the store and held the owner and the staff at gunpoint. As […]
Biden vows to ‘fill the silence’ over 1921 massacre of African Americans By: AFP on June 2, 2021US President Joe Biden on Tuesday honored the forgotten victims of a 1921 massacre in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the worst episodes of racist violence in US history. “I come here to help fill the silence because in silence wounds deepen,” Biden told an audience that included survivors of the Tulsa race […]
Pandemic, poverty loom over Mexican elections By: AFP on June 2, 2021The coronavirus pandemic has claimed thousands of lives in his impoverished district of Mexico City, but Edgar Alonso is still determined to go out and vote in Sunday’s midterm elections. The 48-year-old, who runs a small electronics business in a market in densely populated Iztapalapa, home to 1.8 million people, said he is keeping his […]
The Malaysian schoolgirl using TikTok to challenge school abuse By: AFP on June 2, 2021Malaysian teenager Ain Husniza Saiful Nizam’s unexpected rise from anonymous pupil to national leader against school harassment began with a teacher allegedly joking about rape. When the 17-year-old called out the incident in a viral TikTok clip, thousands of fellow students responded by sharing their harrowing experiences of verbal and physical harassment. The massive outpouring […]
Families appeal for aid freeing kidnapped Nigerian schoolkids By: AFP on June 2, 2021Relatives of scores of schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen from an Islamic seminary over the weekend have appealed to the government to help free them, after the latest mass abduction to target a Nigerian school. Some 200 children were at the school in Tegina, central Niger state, when it was raided on Sunday, the local government […]
Transgender woman battles for ‘dignity’ in conservative Egypt on June 2, 2021Farida Ramadan, a transgender woman, overcame major hurdles to transition in conservative Egypt, but she is still fighting for her rights in a country where LGBTQ+ people face acute stigma. Wearing a colourful headscarf, kohl eyeliner and crimson red lipstick, Ramadan, now in her fifties, told AFP that when she was growing up in Damietta, […]
I’m available to bat at No. 5: Shoaib Malik By: APP on June 2, 2021ISLAMABAD: Pakistani veteran all-rounder Shoaib Malik was hopeful of being part of the national squad for the T20 World Cup saying, Pakistan team was struggling to find a suitable batsman at number five and he was available to bat at that spot. Malik said he was still unaware of the reason behind his exclusion from […]
COVID-19 claims 45 more lives, 447 new cases of coronavirus reported in Punjab on Wednesday By: APP on June 2, 2021LAHORE: In wake of COVID-19’s third wave in the country, as many as 447 new cases of coronavirus were reported in Punjab on Wednesday, while the pandemic claimed 45 more precious lives in the last 24 hours, pushing the death toll to 10,084. As many as 312,888 patients have recovered so far. According to data […]
Govt to provide ‘maximum relief’ to poor in budget, focus on job creation: Usman Dar By: APP on June 2, 2021ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Youth Affairs Usman Dar Wednesday said that the government would provide maximum relief to the poor in the upcoming budget 2021-22 and would focus on creating more employment opportunities for the youth. The next budget would be presented under extraordinary circumstances due to the pandemic and expressed that […]