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French teenagers blockaded some high schools and marched through cities on Thursday as the government promised to address their grievances about teacher shortages and dilapidated school buildings but gave few specific details. The protest movement, now into its third week, has exposed deep tensions ...
Israel said the British consulate in Jerusalem ended its functions on Thursday but that seven diplomats would be allowed to remain in a limited capacity, with the United Kingdom saying it would continue to offer “vital services”. The move comes after Israel ordered the closure of the consulate in Se...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Thursday declared that the degrees of its elected members, including prominent lawyer Ahsan Bhoon, were genuine. The announcement by the PBC — the supreme regulatory body of lawyers — follows a debate over lawyers’ degrees, with the qualification of Bhoon...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Thursday declared that the degrees of its elected members, including prominent lawyer Ahsan Bhoon, were genuine. The announcement by the PBC — the supreme regulatory body of lawyers — follows a debate over lawyers’ degrees, with the qualification of Bhoon...
Turkiye is assessing how it can help Saudi Arabia counter attacks from Yemen’s Houthis under the Makkah defence pact signed between Islamabad, Riyadh and Istanbul, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday. The defence pact, signed on Aug 7, aims to strengthen collective deterrence and e...
Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature,” the award-giving body said on Thursday. The prize is awarded by the Swedish Acade...
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Thursday notified electricity consumers of an additional burden of Rs16 billion by allowing Rs1.11 per unit in higher fuel costs in October billing. In a notification, Nepra said it had decided that the “positive fuel cost adjust...
Dodging the broken glass carpeting her home in southern Lebanon, Mariam al-Yaghi exited onto her upper balcony and pointed. A few hundred metres away was a sight the 67-year-old had grown accustomed to: military vehicles moving through the adjacent Lebanese village, still occupied by Israeli troops...
Bahrain on Thursday said it was working to “speed up” the approval of a free trade agreement between Pakistan and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The remarks came after the two countries held the third session of their Joint Ministerial Commission (JMC) in Islamabad. Bahrain’s FM Abdullatif bin ...
PESHAWAR: Large parts of the provincial capital reportedly remained without mobile and cellular internet services on Thursday in an unannounced suspension that started last night, Dawn has learnt. The move comes as PTI’s long march, launched on Oct 4 from Lakki Marwat, is set to reach Peshawar today...
PESHAWAR: Large parts of the provincial capital remained without mobile and cellular internet services on Thursday in an unannounced suspension that started last night, Dawn has learnt. The move comes as PTI’s long march, launched on Oct 4 from Lakki Marwat, is set to reach Peshawar today according ...
India defended its satellite internet approval process as fair and non-discriminatory on Thursday, hours after billionaire Elon Musk accused unnamed “oligarchs” of blocking Starlink’s launch in the South Asian nation. Starlink was being blocked by “certain oligarchs in order to maintain their mono...
