The speaker of Malaysia’s House rejected interim leader Mahathir Mohamad’s call for a vote next week to chose a new premier, deepening the country’s political turmoil after the ruling alliance collapsed this week. Malaysia’s nine ethnic Malay rulers are to meet on Friday to help resolve the wrangle. Mahathir said on Thursday that King Sultan […]
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LONDON: A lawyer for Julian Assange on Tuesday accused the United States of “boldly and blatantly” misstating facts about the Wikileaks founder’s conduct, on the second day of his extradition hearing in Britain. Lead defence lawyer Edward Fitzgerald also complained that Assange had been stripped naked twice and handcuffed 11 times coming and going from […]
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Tuesday to build 3,500 new settler homes in a super-sensitive area of the occupied West Bank, just a week before a tight general election. Netanyahu’s vow, which drew immediate Palestinian condemnation, is the latest in a string of promises to expand settlements as the rightwing premier faces […]
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UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations health agency, the World Health Organisation (WHO), urged the international community on Tuesday not to stigmatise people from the areas affected by the coronavirus epidemic. On Monday, the agency explained that while a sudden increase in new cases of the virus was of concern, “the spread of coronavirus is not […]
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The death toll from deadly communal violence in New Delhi rose to 23 on Wednesday, Times of India reported. Protests against a contentious citizenship law began on a smaller scale on Sunday but escalated on Monday and Tuesday into running battles between Hindus and Muslims in New Delhi’s north-east, where rioters armed with stones, swords and even […]
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There are now more new cases of the coronavirus reported each day outside China than inside the hardest-hit country, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday. “Yesterday, the number of new cases reported outside China exceeded the number of new cases in China for the first time,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told diplomats […]
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RAWALPINDI: Judging by eagerness expressed from cricketing diehards in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad during the rain-ravaged Test against Sri Lanka last December, it is a predetermined assessment that the HBL Pakistan Super League 2020 jamboree at the Pindi Cricket Stadium has guaranteed overflowing crowds. Just to recap the Sri Lanka fixture — […]
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After a long gap of 12 years, Multan is set to host a high-profile cricket match with home team Multan Sultans taking on Peshawar Zalmi in their HBL Pakistan Super League match on Wednesday. After the Pakistan Cricket Board announced that the PSL will be staged in the country in its entirety, Multan was selected […]
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MULTAN: Multan Sultans are eyeing home comforts as they take on former champions Peshawar Zalmi at the Multan Stadium as the Pakistan Super League resumes after a two-day break in the city of saints on Wednesday. A win for either team will take them atop the fledgling PSL standings, tied on four points with Islamabad […]
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Pakistan women’s cricket team began their journey at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup on Wednesday with a splendid eight-wicket win over the West Indies in Canberra. Faced with a target of 125 runs, Pakistan finished with a score of 127-2 with 10 balls to spare in their allotted 20 overs. 2016 champions West Indies […]
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