Turkey will on Monday host a meeting of foreign ministers from Muslim countries to discuss a US peace plan for Gaza, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said. Fidan told reporters on Friday that the Istanbul meeting would “evaluate our progress and discuss what we can achieve together in the next stage”. A ministry spokesman said ministers […]
The EU’s commissioner for trade on Friday said China’s one-year suspension on its restrictions of rare earth materials would apply to the bloc as well as the United States. “My understanding is that the agreement, which was found between the US and China in this matter, is ‘erga omnes’, so we should apply it to […]
Around 700 people have been killed in three days of election protests in Tanzania, the main opposition party said Friday, with protesters still on the streets in the midst of an internet blackout. President Samia Suluhu Hassan, whose government is accused of a campaign of repression, had sought to cement her position and silence critics […]
A local court in Lahore has remanded six National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) officers — who are accused of taking bribes — in the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for another three days — till November 3. The FIA on Friday presented the accused — including Additional Director Chaudhry Sarfraz, Assistant Director […]
The Punjab Assembly has forwarded to the federal government a unanimously approved resolution seeking an amendment to Article 140-A of the Constitution for constitutional protection of local governments. According to the resolution jointly moved by MPA Ahmad Iqbal Chaudhry of the PML-N and MPA Syed Ali Haider Gillani of the PPP, the provincial legislature has […]