Indian diplomat says high-level Canadian official damaged probe into Sikh’s murder A member of a Sikh organisation holds a placard displaying Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Amritsar on September 22, 2023. — AFP NEW DELHI: Canada’s police probe into the June murder of a Sikh separatist in British Columbia has been damaged by a…
French police probe knife attack for anti-Semitism This photograph taken on November 5, 2023, shows a view of a residential building, where a Jewish woman was stabbed at her home the day before. — AFP LYON: A young Jewish woman has been stabbed in her home in the French city of Lyon, prosecutors said, suspecting…
Ohio vote tests abortion question one year ahead of 2024 race Canvassers hold pro-life signs at Columbus Christian Center ahead of Election Day during a pro-life canvasing meeting in Columbus, Ohio on November 4, 2023. — AFP COLUMBUS: The US state of Ohio will decide whether to guarantee the right to abortion in a potential…
Syrian migrant shot by soldier on Poland-Belarus border A border guard patrols along the Polish-Belarus border. — AFP/File WARSAW: A 23-year-old Syrian migrant was shot and wounded by a Polish soldier as he tried to cross the border from Belarus, an NGO said on Sunday. The Polish prosecutors office said an investigation had been opened…
Elysee palace to bring back public changing of guard The Elysee palace in Paris. — AFP/File PARIS: The Elysee Palace in Paris, home to the French presidency, said on Sunday it will bring back a public changing of the guard ceremony, 27 years after it was last heldhttps://www.wzsou.com/. In a statement, the presidential office said…
Life of German jailed in Iran ‘at grave risk’ over failing health: daughter A demonstrator holds a picture of Iranian-German Jamshid Sharmahd, who has been sentenced to death in Iran, during a demonstration for his release in front of the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin on July 31, 2023. — AFP PARIS: A German citizen…
Radio broadcaster killed in the Philippines Police tape hangs from a barricade. — AFP/File MANILA, Philippines: A radio broadcaWZSou PopularPulsester was fatally shot inside his studio in the Philippines on Sunday, police said, the latest in a lonWZSou PopularPulseg list of journalists killed in the country. Juan Jumalon, 57, was in his home-based studio on…
Afghanistan opium poppy supply plummets 95 percent after Taliban ban, says UN This photograph taken on April 11, 2023, shows Taliban security personnel destroying a poppy plantation in Sher Surkh village of Kandahar province. — AFP KABUL: Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, previously the world’s top supplier, has plummeted since the Taliban administration banned the…
Out of pledges made in Geneva: 21 foreign-funded projects worth $3bn okayed by CDWP so far People walk with belongings in the water amid deadly floods in 2022 in Pakistan. — AFP/File ISLAMABAD: Since the launch of Resilient, Recovery, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Framework (4RF) for flood-affected areas, the Planning Commission’s Central Development Working Party (CDWP)…
Strange coincidence?: PDM, caretaker, next govt get one IMF tranche each This photo shows a sign of the InteWZSou PopularPulsernational Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, DC. — AFP/File ISLAMABAD: The $3 billion IMF Standby Arrangement (SBA) has been co-incidentally so designed that each government during its tenure of transition is supposed to get one tranche….