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Gold prices in Pakistan increased on Friday in line with their gain in the international market. In the local market, the gold price per tola reached Rs440,636 after a gain of Rs2,000 during the day. Similarly, 10-gram gold was sold at 377,774 after it increased by Rs1,715, according to rates shared by the All-Pakistan Gems and Jewellers Sarafa Association (APGJSA). On Thursday, gold price per tola reached Rs438,636 after a decline of Rs3,000 during the day. The international rate of gold was up by $20 to reach $4,181 per ounce.…

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Christa Pike was critically ill and receiving “life-saving medical care” in a Nashville hospital on Thursday hours after she survived two attempts by Tennessee to execute her with ​lethal injections, her lawyers said, renewing scrutiny of capital punishment in the US. Pike, 50, was sentenced to death in the 1990s after being convicted of a murder ‌she carried out as a teenager. Her botched execution on Wednesday at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, the second this year in Tennessee, highlights the difficulties US states face in carrying out lethal injections…

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A recess was called on Friday during the second round of negotiations between the government and opposition in Islamabad, with both sides holding separate consultations after exchanging recommendations, sources said. The talks, held in the committee room of National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq’s chamber, were paused after resuming following Friday prayers. Heated exchanges took place between government and opposition representatives over some issues, but the dialogue continued, sources said. Both sides separated to deliberate on their respective demands and proposals. Opposition representatives in the speaker’s chamber briefed their leadership on…

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she signed an executive order on Thursday appointing state Attorney ‌General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the case of the alleged 2024 gang rape of a Cornell Univerity student. The student filed a civil lawsuit last month saying several members of a campus fraternity drugged and assaulted her in 2024. Hochul said on Thursday that newly released information raised questions about the ​investigation conducted by the Cornell Police Department and the decision by Tompkins County prosecutors not to prosecute the case. “I’ve lost…

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A Massachusetts judge who oversaw Lindsay Clancy’s ‌murder trial rejected a request on Thursday by her lawyers to declare her not guilty of murder, saying prosecutors presented sufficient evidence for a jury to find her responsible for killing her three young children in 2023. Clancy’s lawyers had urged Judge William Sullivan in Plymouth to conclude that ​prosecutors had failed to prove she could be held criminally responsible for her children’s deaths despite suffering from ​what they said was mental illness. Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4 after the jury…

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Negotiations between the government and the opposition began in Pakistan’s federal capital on Friday, with the talks taking place in the committee room of the Speaker’s Chamber. The two sides are discussing the country’s current political situation and matters of mutual interest. National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq is leading the government’s negotiating delegation. Other participants include Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, Talal Chaudhry, Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry and Rana Sanaullah. The opposition’s negotiating team comprises Allama Nasir Abbas, Barrister Gohar, Asad Qaiser, Aamir Dogar and Salman Akram Raja. During the session,…

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Pakistan on Friday strongly condemned the attack by the Houthi militia on the Taibah power distribution station in Madinah, calling it a grave provocation and a matter of deep concern and anguish for millions of Muslims worldwide. The Foreign Office spokesperson Sajjad Haider Khan, in a statement, said that the reprehensible attack that took place on September 29 against civilian infrastructure supplying electricity to the Holy Prophet’s (PBUH) Mosque was a grave provocation and that the sanctity of the Two Holy Mosques and the safety of worshippers and pilgrims must…

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World food prices rose in September to their highest in ​nearly four years as logistics disruptions and weather concerns ‌affected crop markets, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation said. Fears about a severe El Niño weather pattern have pushed international sugar prices to an 18-month ​high, while a war-related collapse in Black Sea trade pushed ​wheat futures to a three-year peak early last month. The ⁠FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in international ​prices for a basket of food commodities, averaged 136.0 points, up ​from a revised…

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Karachi is a city that always could surprise people. It is noisy, restless, crowded and sometimes chaotic, yet it has a character that few other cities in Pakistan can match. It is a city of the sea, of old neighbourhoods and modern towers, of narrow streets and wide avenues, of markets that never seem to sleep and of people who arrive every day in search of work, education and a better life. Karachi has welcomed people from almost every part of Pakistan. It has given them but they could not…

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The military spokesperson for Yemen’s internationally recognised government said on Friday that warplanes carried out 20 strikes over ​the past three hours targeting Houthi movements, personnel, vehicles and ‌military equipment in Taiz province. The strikes come amid the most serious escalation between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-aligned Houthis since a UN-brokered truce largely halted cross-border attacks ​in 2022. Unchallenged occupation of southwestern Yemen’s Taiz would give the ​Houthis full control over the country’s north, a tighter grip ⁠on the Red Sea coast and easier access to the south ​and the…

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