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Sources said the government has approved a grant of Rs 30 crore, the first installment of which arrived a couple of weeks ago, for the construction of the new building.
With the depleting foreign currency reserves and rising inflation, Pakistan is on the brink of economic collapse and heading towards a path similar to the economic downfall of Sri Lanka.
Trump crackdown could leave migrants in Mexico in limbo. Violent crime is a threat for those who stay in Mexico.
In an effort to gain an upper hand, both the leader of Canada and the leader of Mexico have worked to cast the other as ill-prepared to meet the challenges, amid warnings from experts that Trump “loves to divide and conquer”.
Over five previous nights, riot police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse protesters, who threw fireworks at police and built barricades on the Georgian capital’s central boulevard
Erdoğan, whose ruling AKP has been in power as a single-party government since 2002, was elected president in 2014 and re-elected in 2018 and 2023.
The ICC was established in 2002 as the world’s permanent court of last resort to prosecute individuals responsible for the most heinous atrocities — war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and the crime of aggression.
Dirk Huyer, Ontario’s chief coroner, recorded hundreds of cases of doctors and nurses breaching medical guidelines around assisted suicide, and recorded a “pattern of not following legislation”, documents seen by The Telegraph show.
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Javier Milei announced that he will prohibit prisoners from changing gender in prisons: “This stupidity is over”.
He did so at an act of delivery of sabers to the Armed Forces and questioned the guarantee policies of Kirchnerism.
Cylinders discovered in 2004 are inscribed with the earliest known examples of letters, say archaeologists.
The opposition wanted to discuss who is responsible for the crash that killed 15 people in the northern city of Novi Sad on Nov. 1, while governing officials, who have a majority in Serbia’s legislature, sought to adopt a bill on next year’s state budget.
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke.
A random drawing in the end will determine who gets on the ballot.
Earlier this year, two self-igniting mechanisms shipped from Lithuania via DHL caused fires in a logistics centre in Leipzig.
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AP: UN talks in disarray as a rough draft deal for climate cash is rejected by developing nations
Developing nations are seeking $1.3 trillion to help adapt to droughts, floods, rising seas and extreme heat, pay for losses and damages caused by extreme weather, and transition their energy systems away from planet-warming fossil fuels
Elon Musk presents the Indian slow cooker
Washington allegedly told Iraq it has exhausted "all means of pressure" on Jerusalem and has urged Baghdad to take swift action to prevent the attacks.
“... We do consider there is a genuine risk that their safety and the safety of their family would be compromised if they were publicly identified as lawyers representing Mr Tarrant.”
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US ambassador says Mexico ‘closed the doors’ on security cooperation and denies its violence problem
Mexico’s foreign relations ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the statements by the ambassador.
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In Milei’s latest drastic move, Argentina is sole UN holdout voting ‘no’ to ending gender violence
Why can Cyprus do what Germany can't?
Argentina’s inflation has slowed to 2.7% in October, the lowest level in three years in a win for the libertarian government of President Javier Milei
He described his ousting as illegal, saying in a letter - seen by Reuters news agency - that it raised "serious concerns" about Haiti's future.
The election of Donald J. Trump is sapping momentum from global climate talks as diplomats brace for his pro-fossil-fuel agenda.
Spain and Norway recognized a Palestinian state the same day as Ireland, with Slovenia following a week later, drawing retaliatory moves from Israel.
The Libyan interior minister says patrols will target 'strange' haircuts, enforce 'modest' clothing and require male guardians for women.
On June 7, 2023, Anjali, a lawyer, was shot dead by two people while she was returning home from a dairy.
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Iranian strategy advisor to 'Al Mayadeen': Iran has technical abilities to produce nuclear weapons
He added that Iran will respond to Israel's retaliatory attack at an appropriate time, saying Tehran will likely increase the range of their ballistic missiles.
Japan remains the only Group of Seven major industrialized country that has not legalized same-sex marriage or civil unions, despite growing pressure from the LGBT community and its supporters.
Botswana has been held up as one of Africa’s most stable democracies and is regarded as a post-colonial success story having built one of the highest standards of living in the region through an economy that largely relies on diamonds.
Bolivian president Luis Arce said that the armed group was “affiliated” with former president Evo Morales, but did not offer evidence for the claim.
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Indo-Canadian lawmaker Parm Bains, who accused India of ‘foreign interference’, is Chinese collaborator: Canadian MP, journalist
Apart from Bains, journalist Sam Cooper alleged that Liberal-appointed Senator Yuen Pau Woo, Liberal MP Mary Ng, and Conservative-appointed Senator Victor Oh collaborated with CCP-based influence networks.
Following the exploits of a president straight out of the DC universe
In a social media post, the defence ministry said that the troops who took part "sacrificed their lives for our freedom", describing the Italian and Nazi loss to the allies in North Africa as "heroic and tragic".
The Taliban’s minister for virtue and virtue, Khalid Hanafi, has declared it forbidden for adult women to allow their voices to be heard by other adult women, a restriction that adds to the mounting limitations on women’s lives in Afghanistan.
After so much bullshit coming from state channels in German-speaking areas, this is a breath of fresh air. Liechtenstein continues to be based
Supporters of the ex-president have been blocking highways in a two-week protest, and the incident risks sparking further unrest.
Commonwealth leaders have agreed the "time has come" for a conversation about reparations for the slave trade, despite the UK's desire to keep the subject off the agenda at a two-day summit in Samoa.
Repeated blackouts leave residents concerned about food, water supply and Cuba’s future
The four Southeast Asian countries are among 13 new partner countries of BRICS, and are not full members of the group.
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'This is our land, we deserve it': Dozens of Israelis planning to cross border and settle in Gaza
When asked what should happen to the Palestinians currently living in the territory, one Israeli woman replied: "We should kill them. Every last one of them."
Journos: "He protects citizens from crime. But who will protect them from him?"
The world's largest construction project is poised to take a major slice of China and India's steel production.
Perpetrators will be put on a no-fly list and could face jail time, officials said after the threats disrupted dozens of flights, including some to the U.S.
Millions of people on the communist-run island have been left without power over the last several days as the aging Cuban electrical grid repeatedly collapsed.
xperts have attributed the trend to a generational shift in attitudes towards work, accelerated by the disruption to jobs and lifestyles caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, when working from home prompted many people to reconsider their work-life balance.
From its perspective, Qatar saw the one-time 2021 vote likely as increasing tensions between tribes and families in the country just months after a diplomatic crisis between Doha and four Arab nations ended.
The entire island was initially left without power on Friday when its main power plant failed impacting 10 million people.
Cuba's communist-run government said late on Thursday it would shut down all non-essential workplaces in its vast state sector, part of an emergency bid to control blackouts that now exceed 12 hours a day for millions of people across the island.
Under the Taliban's previous rule in the late 1990s, most forms of media were banned outright, including television, radio, and newspapers.
As Canada pushes to expand euthanasia and more countriesmove to legalize it, health care workers here are grappling with requests from people whose pain might be alleviated by money, adequate housing or social connections.
Azerbaijan is rejecting Armenian proposals to sign a bilateral peace deal in possible preparation for a new military aggression against Armenia, a deputy chairman of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party said on Wednesday.
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'Israel wasn't established by UN resolution, but through blood of heroic fighters': Netanyahu pans Macron
In call with French leader, PM stresses Israel’s efforts aimed at eliminating Hezbollah threat and secure return of northern residents, following Macron's criticism that Israel cannot disregard UN resolutions.
New Delhi has rejected claims that its ambassador to Canada was involved in assassination
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Vatican sent Italian children born out of wedlock to America as orphans; new book uncovers program
From 1950 to 1970, the Vatican sent 3,500 Italian children to America on something called an orphan visa.
Several radio stations reported that the attack was launched by the gang in the area of Canaan known as the Taliban.
The Liberal government said it is the initial phase of a plan that would expand to become a publicly funded national pharmacare programme.
The federal home ministry told the Supreme Court that "a man does not have a fundamental right" to force sex on his wife, but there were enough laws to protect married women against sexual violence.
The leaders of Egypt, Somalia and Eritrea – countries which all have strained relations with Ethiopia – have been meeting in the Eritrean capital, Asmara.
The memorial in Ottawa, Canada was supposed to be unveiled in November 2023 but that was put on hold after questions surfaced about many of the names listed.
Both nations also aligned on major directions and measures to ensure this partnership deepens and becomes more practical, fitting the new context of Vietnam-France cooperation.
The fire only adds to what has become a Canadian scourge as at least 110 churches have now been damaged or destroyed by fires and vandalism since 2021.
During a traditional debate day Thursday, where parties’ political affairs spokespeople explain their party’s line, the politician gave an eight-minute speech in Greenlandic.
Co-chair of Bilberberg Foundation and 34-year WEF veteran enters hell
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AP: 6 migrants from Egypt, Peru and Honduras die near Guatemalan border after Mexican soldiers open fire
Elon Musk merging Twitter into X didn't absolve X from child safety fine.
A woman with the rare condition of two uteruses delivered twins, one from each womb, last month at a hospital in northwestern China, according to health officials and state media.
The kefir cheese “has now become really dry, dense and hard dust,” the co-author of a study published this week told NBC News.
AP liberal jornoscum copes and seethes about the European Right
Projections from public broadcasters based on exit polls suggest that the pro-Russia, anti-immigration Freedom Party, or FPÖ, has finished first with 29.1% of the vote.
Francis didn’t mention Israel by name and said he was speaking in general terms.
Shigeru Ishiba takes a tough line on foreign policy and is an advocate of a strong Japanese military at a time of volatility in east Asia
Its leader, Herbert Kickl, has been branded as “Volkskanzler” or “People’s Chancellor,” by his party, a term the Nazis used to describe Hitler.
Australia said it will fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online, joining a worldwide push to rein in borderless tech giants but angering free speech advocates.
This declaration comes amid growing unease in Pyongyang, which has been increasingly evident in its actions, such as not sending diplomatic representatives to key Chinese events attended by other major countries, including South Korea.
In Canada Amish farmers are getting hit hard with COVID fines, one farmer says he would rather go to jail than pay almost $25,000.
South Korea needs to "establish a legal foundation for multicultural education", says report
Egypt has delivered a second cache of military equipment to Somalia as tensions in the Horn of Africa region rise between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland.
The son of Iran’s last monarch, exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi, is urging Israelis to help fund civil disobedience movements in the Islamic Republic as part of his campaign for regime change.
Experts examining X’s IP addresses — numeric designations that identifies sites’ location on the internet — said there are indications the company has begun routing users through the servers of Cloudflare, a content delivery network, en route to its own.
Tributes paid to Kesaria Abramidz as ruling party and allies are accused of state campaign against minorities
"Reducing Gridlock and Saving You Time Act" could stop car lanes from being converted to bike lanes; prepare for urbanist coping and seething
In the past decade, births have fallen by 29% in Chile, which now makes it the country with the lowest birth rate in the Americas.
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Fortified bouillon cubes are seen as a way to curb malnutrition in Africa as climate worsens hunger
The large-scale production of fortified foods would unlock a new way to “increase micronutrients in the food staples of low-income countries to create resilience for vulnerable families,” the Gates Foundation says.
On the eve of New Zealand’s Māori language celebration week, the country’s right-wing political leaders ordered public agencies to stop affirmative action policies for Māori people, who are disadvantaged on almost every metric.
Both men are bidding to become mayor of São Paulo.
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Pope Francis criticizes Trump and Harris and says voters must choose between ‘lesser of two evils’
The Catholic leader deemed former President Donald Trump’s anti-migrant policies and Vice President Kamala Harris’ support of abortion rights as both being “against life.”
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Ecocide may soon be one of the world’s most serious crimes. That could actually be good for business
If the International Criminal Court formally recognizes ecocide as a crime under the Rome Statute, it would have the same legal repercussions as genocide and war crimes.
