ISLAMABAD: Pakistan rescuers were working Sunday (Jan 9) to clear routes to a locked-in hill town sheltering thousands of tourists after 22 people died in vehicles trapped by heavy snow. The resort town of Murree, around 70km northeast of Islamabad, was inundated with tourists and daytrippers last week after unusually […]
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A Chinese immigrant who was brutally attacked in April while collecting cans in East Harlem has died of his injuries, and his case is now deemed a homicide, New York City police said on Saturday (Jan 8). Yao Pan Ma, 61, died on Dec 31, police said. The attack drew […]
With the negotiations looming — and the fate of Europe’s post-Cold War borders and NATO’s military presence on the continent at stake — Biden’s advisers say they are trying to signal to Putin exactly what he would face in hopes of influencing his decisions in coming weeks. The Biden administration […]
The rise of Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to the presidency was looked at as a possible model by other authoritarian regimes on how to conduct a leadership transition without losing their grip on power. The embattled president of Kazakhstan has the pedigree of an international technocrat. The son of prominent intellectuals, he […]
ALMATY: Kazakhstan’s president said Friday that order had been mostly restored in the country after days of unprecedented violence that saw a Moscow-led military alliance send troops to help quell unrest. The interior ministry said security forces had taken all the country’s regions “under increased protection” and that 26 “armed […]
HONG KONG: Four Hong Kong lawmakers and its immigration czar joined another top official at a quarantine camp as a coronavirus scare widened Friday, ensnaring the territory’s political elite after they attended a large birthday party. The latest five entries into Hong Kong’s 21-day quarantine facilities have left city authorities […]
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump on Thursday angrily hit back at Joe Biden on the first anniversary of the Capitol riot, repeating his claims that the 2020 election was “rigged’ after the US president assailed his predecessor as a dangerous threat to American democracy. In a series of statements, Trump used Biden’s […]
PARIS: French Prime Minister Jean Castex said today that France was ready to deploy a fourth Covid-19 vaccination or second booster shot as soon as health authorities gave their green light to such a move. “When the health authorities will give us the go-ahead, we’ll go for it,” Castex told […]
SEOUL: North Korea fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile into the sea today, South Korea and Japan said, in the first such launch by Pyongyang this year. In the decade since Kim Jong-un took power, North Korea has seen rapid progress in its military technology at the cost […]
ALMATY: Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev accepted the government’s resignation on Wednesday, his office said, after violent protests triggered by a fuel price increase rocked the oil-rich Central Asian country. Police used tear gas and stun grenades late on Tuesday to drive hundreds of protesters out of the main square in […]