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A multi-agency Australian counterterrorism unit is investigating links to Australia of the co-pilot of flydubai flight FZ1073, who allegedly stabbed his captain and then attempted to hijack the plane, a police spokesperson said on Sunday. The Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team — which comprises ...
Yemen’s leader announced on Sunday the start of a new military operation to retake all territory held by the Houthis, even as the group made fresh gains on the ground, effectively encircling a government-held city. The announcement sets an ambitious goal for the embattled government, which recently ...
PESHAWAR/LAKKI MARWAT/DI KHAN: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Sunday launched the PTI’s long march towards Islamabad from Lakki Marwat, saying the party would “not accept” any policy that was against the interests of the people of KP. The PTI has gone ahead with its march despite...
The four Pakistanis who were injured during a security operation to recover a hijacked oil tanker off the coast of Somalia, along with the remains of three others who lost their lives in the episode, arrived in Karachi on Sunday evening. The crew members of MT Honour 25 reached Karachi after departi...
The UK’s left-wing Green Party on Sunday voted to define Zionism as racism at the party’s annual get-together, drawing sharp backlash from British Jewish groups and the Israeli government. Members of the Greens, which has five members in Britain’s 650-seat parliament and which enjoyed a boost in rec...
The PTI on Sunday asserted that the main reason for the breakdown of its talks with the Centre was that the latter refused to incorporate terms regarding access to incarcerated party founder Imran Khan into a proposed agreement. Hours-long negotiations yesterday between an opposition delegation comp...
The PTI on Sunday asserted that the main reason for the breakdown of their talks with the Centre was that the federal government refused to incorporate measures relating to access to incarcerated party founder Imran Khan into a proposed agreement. Hours-long negotiations yesterday between an opposit...
TOBA TEK SINGH: Former provincial minister and ex-Senator Syeda Sughra Imam has become active in politics with an aim to contest the next general election from her native constituency in Jhang. It is expected that she will contest against her relative, former federal minister Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat...
The leader of Yemen’s Saudi-backed government announced the beginning of a major military operation against the Houthis on Sunday, aimed at seizing the territory under their control. Regional and western officials had previously told Reuters that Saudi Arabia and its Yemeni allies were planning to l...
US President Donald Trump on Sunday confirmed national intelligence chief Jay Clayton as head of a new White House task force on artificial intelligence (AI), amid increasingly vocal warnings from researchers about the technology’s potential dangers. Under Clayton, the new Super Intelligence Force —...
PESHAWAR/LAKKI MARWAT/DI KHAN: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Sunday launched the PTI’s long march towards Islamabad from Gandi Chowk in Lakki Marwat, saying the party would “not accept” any policy that was against the interests of the people of the province and Pashtuns. Afridi ...
The PTI on Sunday asserted that the main reason for the breakdown of talks with the Centre was the latter’s insistence on “unilateral” counter-terrorism measures in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The statement by PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja comes less than a day after hours-long negotiations betwee...
