Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said that a global response was required to defeat the novel coronavirus, saying that “we [countries around the world] are all connected”. He was addressing a session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) through video link. “The upcoming year isn’t just a challenge for Pakistan. It’s a challenge for […]
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Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday announced it would stop selling its talc Baby Powder in the United States and Canada, saying demand had dropped in the wake of what it called “misinformation” about the product’s safety amid a barrage of legal challenges. J&J faces more than 19,000 lawsuits from consumers and their survivors claiming its […]
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In an alert that appeared aimed squarely at Iran, the United States Navy issued a warning on Tuesday to mariners in the Gulf to stay 100 metres away from US warships or risk being “interpreted as a threat and subject to lawful defensive measures”. The notice to mariners, which was first reported by Reuters, follows US […]
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President Donald Trump emphatically defended himself on Tuesday against criticism from medical experts that his announced use of a malaria drug against the coronavirus could spark wide misuse by Americans of the unproven treatment with potentially fatal side effects. Trump’s revelation a day earlier that he was taking hydroxychloroquine caught many in his administration by […]
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China slammed the United States for its “dangerous” decision to congratulate Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on her Wednesday inauguration, as the self-ruled island became the latest flashpoint between the world’s two largest economies. Taiwanese voters handed Tsai a second term with a landslide win in January, a vocal rebuke of China’s ongoing campaign to isolate the […]
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Cambridge has become the first university in Britain to cancel all face-to-face lectures for the 2020-21 academic year because of the coronavirus pandemic, after 800 years of welcoming students to its cloisters, quadrangles and classrooms. It likely won’t be the last, as the virus threatens the foundations of the traditional student experience, and the finances […]
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India captain Virat Kohli has told how his late father refused to pay a bribe to get him into a Delhi state junior team when he was a teenager. The world’s top ranked one-day batsman did not identify who had demanded the bribe but said he was rejected by the team, a rebuff that left […]
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KARACHI: The Karachi Basketball Association and PSWA jointly organised an event to distribute Eid gifts among several players and sports organisers here in Nazimabad on Tuesday. Former Test spinner and head of PCB cricket committee Iqbal Qasim, Sports Medicine’s Dr Parvez Rizvi and former First class player Saleem Swaleh supported the event by contributing a […]
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TURIN: Cristiano Ronaldo returned to training with Juventus in Turin on Tuesday after an absence of over two months because of the coronavirus pandemic. The 35-year-old drove himself into the Juventus Training Centre in a Jeep with tinted windows. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner will undergo medical and physical tests before joining up with his […]
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ISLAMABAD: Off-spin great Saqlain Mushtaq believes Babar Azam possesses all the essential ingredients of leadership but says the batsman will have to sit with the world’s best team leaders to learn the ways of taking along his side. “I think it is very important for him [Babar] to find out how to lead the team […]
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