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NAB Chairman Orders Investigation into Karachi Yellow Line Project
KARACHI: The Chairman of Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has directed the Director General of NAB Karachi to initiate an investigation into the Karachi BRT Yellow Line Project over alleged irregular advance payments amounting to Rs8.5 billion, according to NAB sources. The accountability watchdog will examine the circumstances surrounding the alleged advance payments made to…
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Death Toll of Militants Rises to 13 as Pakistan Security Forces Continue Operation Al-Azm in Mastung
MASTUNG, Pakistan: Pakistan’s security forces have intensified their intelligence-based counterterrorism campaign under Operation Al-Azm in Balochistan, with the number of militants killed rising to 13 following fresh operations in Mastung district, according to security sources. The latest phase of the operation took place in the Khad Kocha area of Mastung, where security forces carried out…
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Another bid to mend US-Iran fences ‘with China’s blessing’
• Exploratory talks held during Iranian interior minister’s recent Islamabad visit• Dar meets Araghchi at SCO summit; Qatar calls for implementing Islamabad MoU• Beijing concerned as Red Sea closure would compound Hormuz woes• Trump says Iran getting serious about talks; warns China, Russia against ‘getting involved’ in conflict• Says US will punish Iran for attacks…
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Unesco places Lebanese castle, West Bank site on ‘danger’ list
PARIS: The UN’s cultural agency on Friday placed a Lebanese castle recently seized by Israeli forces and an archaeological site in the occupied West Bank on its list of World Heritage in Danger. Beaufort Castle, a Crusader fortress also known as Qalaat al-Shakif, was captured by Israeli forces in May. It is one of five…
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11 indicted in US over migrants’ deaths on train
WASHINGTON: A federal grand jury indicted 11 people on Friday for allegedly orchestrating a migrant smuggling operation to the United States that ended in the deaths of seven people travelling in a freight car, the Justice Department announced. From April 2023 through May of this year, the defendants allegedly smuggled undocumented migrants into the US…
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Highest measles cases in US since 1991
WASHINGTON: The United States has recorded its worst measles outbreak since 1991, according to official figures released on Friday, a serious uptick in cases as vaccine hesitancy grows. In just seven months of the current year, 2,318 confirmed cases of the highly contagious illness have been recorded, according to the Centers for Disease Control and…
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Trump says EU to pay ‘very big price’ for Google fine
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to hit the European Union with tariffs and a formal trade investigation over the EU’s latest antitrust penalty against Google. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said the bloc “will pay a very big price for this illegal and highly unethical conduct, which I…
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Court rules against Berlin in Afghan resettlement case
BERLIN: Germany’s constitutional court backed an Afghan woman’s appeal on Friday against an interior ministry decision to deny her a visa, ruling that the government cannot row back on resettlement pledges it had made to Afghans who fear persecution because they helped Western forces. The woman had initially been accepted under a refugee scheme set…
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Over 100,000 flee forest fires in France, Spain
CAP FERRET (France): Europe’s wildfire crisis forced more than 100,000 people to flee for safety on Friday, as holidaymakers boarded boats to escape fires on one French peninsula and Spanish officials ordered mass evacuations in towns near Madrid. Both Spain and France called for European Union help as flames whipped up by strong winds and…
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‘Houthis not seeking to close Bab al-Mandeb’
SANAA: A Houthi spokesman has said that they were not blocking traffic through the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait, after they had declared a maritime embargo on Saudi Arabia. “There is no closure of Bab al-Mandab as some are suggesting,” said Mohammed Abdusalam, who is also a top Houthi negotiator, adding that their position was “limited to…
