Classrooms across the globe emptied as students joined a climate protest Tens of thousands of young people skipped school across the globe on Friday and marched through the streets on a global day of student protests aiming to push world leaders into action on climate change. Classrooms in capitals from Bangkok to Berlin, Lagos to […]
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‘Cannot go back’: Malawi floods leave thousands homeless
Homeless: Children cook corn at a camp for displaced people in Bangula, southern Malawi “We just sleep on the floor in the tents,” said 28-year-old mother-of-five Mary Amidu who like thousands of other Malawians fled her flood-ravaged home. “It’s a camp, so the situation is dire. You just find a small space in the tent […]
Israel launches dozens of Gaza strikes after rockets target Tel Aviv
The sky above buildings on the Gaza Strip glows orange during an Israeli air strike in Gaza City late on March 14 Israel said Friday its aircraft had struck dozens of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip overnight in response to rockets from the Palestinian enclave, including rare fire toward its economic capital Tel Aviv. […]
Khalistan Movement India paranoid
ISLAMABAD: The Khalistan movement is a Sikh separatist movement aiming to carve a separate independent homeland for the world Sikh community, the proposed country of Khalistan would constitute the Indian state of Punjab, the states of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh in addition to some other parts of India. Before the meeting in Attari sources from New Delhi expressed their […]
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Iran has sentenced human rights lawyer to 38 years in prison, say family
Nasrin Sotoudeh has been charged with several national security-related offenses, all of which she denies. According to Iran’s state-owned news service, IRNA, the rights lawyer was found guilty of “gathering Intel and colluding to commit crimes against national security” and for “insulting the Supreme Leader”. Prior to her arrest in June 2018, Ms. Sotoudeh was […]
Alcohol sale to start from next month in Lahore
LAHORE: The Royal International hotel has been issued a licence to sell alcohol by the Excise and Taxation Department Punjab in January. The last licence issued in Lahore was before 22-years to Holiday Inn. The Royal International Hotel is owned by Peer Baghai Shah and is very close to the Lahore International Airport. Peer Baghai […]
Passenger travelling to Saudi caught with Rs96m worth of ice
PESHAWAR: Jamshed, a Pakistani from Swabi was caught on Wednesday night while trying to smuggle ice, the street name for crystal methamphetamine, when his baggage was checked at the Bacha Khan International Airport Peshawar by the Air Freight Unit (AFU). The Saudi-bound passenger was attempting to board a flight to Ras al-Khaimah when the AFU foiled the bid […]
At-least two people killed in Chitkan Bazaar blast
QUETTA: A blast took place in Balochistan’s Panjgur district, Chitkan Bazaar on Thursday. It has been reported that at least two people were killed while seven others are injured. Officials said at least three of the seven injured people were in critical condition. The people killed were in a car that was damaged and caught fire […]
Eight killed in Brazil school shooting, two suspects dead
A student cries after a shooting at her school near Sao Paulo, Brazil, where five teenage students were among those killed Two former pupils shot dead eight people, most of them students and staff, at a high school near Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday before turning their weapons on themselves, authorities said. The two assailants […]
Defying Trump, Senate votes to end US support for Yemen war
Yemenis displaced from areas near the border with Saudi Arabia receive humanitarian aid given by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the northern province of Hajjah on March 11, 2019 The US Senate on Wednesday dealt a stinging bipartisan rebuke to Donald Trump’s foreign policy and his […]