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October 25, 2018

Talks held on lifting football’s booze ban

Talks have taken place that could lead to the lifting of the ban on the sale of alcohol at Scottish football grounds, BBC Scotland has learned. […]
October 25, 2018

Yemen crisis: Half of population facing ‘pre-famine conditions’

Half the population of war-torn Yemen – 14 million people – are facing “pre-famine conditions”, the UN has warned. Humanitarian co-ordinator Mark Lowcock said survey work […]
October 25, 2018

Khashoggi death: Saudi suspects to be barred from UK

The men suspected of murdering the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi will not be allowed to enter the UK, Theresa May has said. So far eighteen men […]
October 23, 2018

‘We failed them’: Australia offers rare national apology to child sex abuse victims

CANBERRA: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison issued a national on apology to thousands of victims of institutional sex abuse on Monday, admitting the state utterly failed […]
October 23, 2018

Oxford Islamic scholar Ramadan claims consensual sex in French rape case

PARIS: Leading Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, charged with raping two women in France, claimed on Monday that he had consensual sex with both of them after […]
October 23, 2018

Cop gets bail in rickshaw driver self-immolation case

KARACHI: A local court on Monday granted post-arrest bail to a detained traffic police official booked in a case of extorting money from a rickshaw driver, […]
October 23, 2018

IHC suspends Shoaib Shaikh’s sentence in fake degree case

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday suspended Axact’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Shoaib Sheikh’s 20-year jail term and granted him bail against surety bonds worth […]
October 23, 2018

Aslam Masood, chief suspect in ‘fake accounts’ case, arrested by Interpol: source

One of the chief accused in the ongoing ‘fake’ accounts case, Aslam Masood, was arrested by Interpol on Tuesday as he was boarding a flight from […]