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Sporadic rains in Karachi submerge parts of city causing prolonged power outages

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Since Monday evening, Karachi has experienced sporadic periods of torrential rain that have inundated many city districts and put an end to all activity. To top it all off, the city’s electrical supply has been halted in most locations for a number of hours, making it challenging for residents to go about their daily lives. […]

Sri Lanka PM offers resignation after protesters storm president’s house

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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is willing to resign to make way for an all-party government, his office said in a statement on Saturday, after thousands of protesters stormed the president’s official residence in Colombo. Soldiers and police were unable to hold back the crowd of chanting protesters demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation, […]

Sri Lanka protesters storm president’s house, clash with police

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Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo broke through police barricades and stormed the president’s official residence on Saturday in one of the largest anti-government marches in the crisis-hit country this year. Some protesters, holding Sri Lankan flags and helmets, broke into the president’s residence, video footage from local TV news NewsFirst channel showed. Two […]

Japan ex-PM Abe dies after being shot while making a speech

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Former prime minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving leader, died on Friday after being shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, an official from his political party said. A man opened fire on Abe, 67, from behind with an apparently homemade gun as he spoke at a drab traffic island in the western city of Nara, […]

After scandals, Boris Johnson quits as UK prime minister

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Scandal-ridden Boris Johnson announced on Thursday he would quit as British prime minister after he was abandoned by ministers and most of his Conservative lawmakers. Bowing to the inevitable as more than 50 ministers quit and lawmakers said he must go, an isolated and powerless Johnson spoke outside his Downing Street to confirm he would […]

Pakistan receives 87% above normal monsoon rainfall, deaths surge to 77: Sherry

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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman on Wednesday said the country had received 87% above normal rainfall during the prevailing monsoon season whereas the death toll due to heavy rains had surged to 77 since June 14.  The minister held a press conference to share the situation of the current monsoon damages […]

Quetta to face disaster as rains kill 13

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QUETTA: The Balochistan government has declared Quetta a disaster-struck area and imposed a state of emergency in the provincial capital after rain wreaked havoc, killing more than a dozen people in the province. Monsoon rains continued for the second day in several districts of Balochistan on Wednesday. Due to torrential rains, the rivers and canals […]

Sindh Opposition leader Haleem Adil detained from Lahore

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Haleem Adil Sheikh, the PTI opposition leader in the Sindh Assembly, was detained by police in the early hours of Wednesday. Haleem Adil reportedly arrived in Lahore yesterday and was staying in a hotel. He was taken away by some officials who entered the hotel wearing plain clothes. He has been relocated to an unidentified […]

NCOC urges people to follow SOPs to avoid risk of new COVID wave on Eid

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ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) Tuesday issued fresh guidelines in view of the upcoming Eidul Azha, urging people to follow the standard operating procedures (SOPs) to prevent Covid-19 infection. The forum has advised the people to stay indoors during the Eid holidays and observe precautionary measures in view of the rising trend […]