Accountability Court Judge Nasir Javed Rana delivered the verdict in the Al-Qadir Trust case on Friday at Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi. The court found former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, guilty of corrupt practices. Both…
Category: 4. World
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Before inauguration, hostage families beg Trump to push deal completion
Washington, DC — Hostage family members flanked by several dozen supporters gathered on Sunday morning at the base of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. with massive banners towering overhead reading, “President Trump you can…
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Biden welcomes Gaza ceasefire as aid trucks rush to help civilians
US President Joe Biden welcomed a ceasefire in Gaza on Sunday and said hundreds of trucks were entering the seaside enclave to help its civilians.
“Today, the guns in Gaza have gone silent,” Biden said in brief remarks during a visit to…
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Trump national security adviser: Hamas will never govern Gaza
President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said on Sunday that if Hamas reneges on the Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal, the United States will support Israel “in doing what it has to do.”
He added in an…
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After Supreme Court ruling, TikTok temporarily shuts in US
TikTok stopped working in the United States late on Saturday and disappeared from Apple and Google app stores ahead of a law that takes effect Sunday requiring the shutdown of the app used by 170 million Americans.
President-elect Donald…
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The stray dogs of Koh Samui
According to Buddhism, dogs are part of the cycle of life and karma. In Judaism and Islam, however, some consider canines impure and contemptible, and one should distance oneself from them. In Buddhism, dogs, like all living beings, possess…
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Italian artist Giovanni Guida addresses artistic technique
The blue, purple, and scarlet embroidered parochet covering and adorning the holy areas of the desert Tabernacle (Exodus 26) forever connected these colors with the concept of sanctity of place – and ultimately with Jerusalem.
This color…
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Reviewing ‘Saints and Liars’ by Deborah Dwork
During World War II, US-based agencies – the Unitarian Service Committee, the American Friends Service Committee, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee – tried to provide relief, rescue, resettlement, and refugee aid to…
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Palestine Action deny attack on Israeli firm Elbit UK warehouse
Nine people appeared in a London court on Friday to deny offences including burglary, criminal damage, violent disorder and hitting a police officer with a sledgehammer, over an incident at a warehouse linked to Israeli defense firm Elbit.
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US Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok
The US Supreme Court refused to rescue TikTok on Friday from a law that required the popular short-video app to be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or banned on Sunday in the United States on national security grounds – a major…
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