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February 11, 2019

Australia PM seeks to block bill on sick asylum seekers

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison is campaigning to block a bill that would let sick asylum seekers in offshore centres get treatment in Australia. Mr Morrison […]
February 11, 2019

IMF insists on gas price, power tariff hike

ISLAMABAD.: International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Sunday asked Pakistan to take “decisive actions”, indicating that the fund remained inflexible in its conditions […]
February 11, 2019

Raheel Sharif-led IMCTC delegation arrives in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: A delegation of Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC), headed by former army chief General (retd) Raheel Sharif, arrived in Pakistan on it’s first-ever visit […]
February 7, 2019

UN rights experts warn UK against using terrorism legislation to prosecute peaceful protesters

UN rights experts on Wednesday urged the UK not to use security and terrorism-related legislation to prosecute a group a peaceful protesters who attempted to block […]
February 7, 2019

Report: no evidence of foreign influence in 2018 US elections

Acting US Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen on Tuesday released a joint statement claiming that foreign interference had no influence […]
February 7, 2019

A protest Pakistan wants to hide from the world

Pakistan’s vibrant, at times almost cacophonic media, is struggling to report a fundamental contradiction in state policy. This was at its most visible this week outside […]
February 7, 2019

Macedonia signs accession agreement with NATO

The Republic of Macedonia on Wednesday signed an accession agreement with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This begins the process of Macedonia joining NATO, which […]
February 7, 2019

Brexit: What awaits Theresa May in Brussels after ‘hell’ jibe?

There’s pretty much zero expectation that any real progress will be made on Thursday when Theresa May comes back to Brussels looking for changes to the […]