A man suspected to have contracted the coronavirus has been admitted to the Nishtar Hospital in Multan, the National Institute of Health (NIH) stated in a press release issued on Saturday. According to Multan and South Punjab’s Focal Person for Epidemic Diseases Dr Atta ur Rehman, a 40-year-old Chinese man, Feng Fen, was shifted from […]
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Prime minister’s aide Firdous Ashiq Awan on Saturday insisted that it was important that journalist bodies, government and all stakeholders of the media industry come together and design a roadmap to address the difficulties being faced by the media fraternity in Pakistan. Awan made these comments while talking to reporters after her visit to the […]
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Senior Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen sent out defamation notices worth Rs1 billion each to anchorpersons Shahzeb Khanzada and Waseem Badami for making “false imputations” in their news programmes that have or are likely to cause “serious harm and injury to his reputation”. According to the notice sent to him, Khanzada in his programme Aaj Shahzeb […]
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WASHINGTON: The Trump administration on Thursday published new visa rules aimed at restricting birth tourism, in which women travel to the United States to give birth so their children can have US citizenship. Applicants will be denied tourist visas if they are determined by consular officers to be coming to the US primarily to give […]
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A large explosion shook the US city of Houston, Texas, early on Friday morning, with residents woken before dawn as houses were damaged and glass windows blown in. Houston police said they were responding to the explosion and warned all traffic to avoid the area in the northwest of the city. CNN reported a fiery explosion […]
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A psychologist who helped design the Central Intelligence Agency’s “war on terror” torture programme after the September 11, 2001 attacks defended it this week before its victims at the US military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba. James Mitchell was unapologetic on Tuesday when he appeared at a hearing to answer questions about the waterboarding, stress position […]
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Six people have been killed and several were injured in a shooting in the southwestern German town of Rot am See, police said on Friday. A suspect has been arrested and no further suspects are believed to be at large, Aalen police said. “According to my information, there were six dead and several injured,” police […]
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China stepped up measures to contain a virus which has killed 25 people and infected more than 800, with public transport suspensions in 10 cities, temples shutting, and the rapid construction of a new hospital to treat those infected. The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday declared the new coronavirus an emergency for China but […]
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MELBOURNE: Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios reached the Australian Open third round on Thursday after the weather-disrupted tournament faced a new challenge: dirty rain which left courts muddy and unplayable. After a day of clean-up operations and delays, Australia’s Kyrgios fought his way past Frenchman Gilles Simon in four sets and Wimbledon champion Simona Halep […]
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