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Blome calls for strengthening economic ties with Pakistan


June 26, 2023

KARACHI: US Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome visited Karachi to underscore the strong bilateral ties between his country and Pakistan. Ambassador Blome engaged with government officials, the American Business Council, the Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Pakistan Council on Foreign Relations and the Pakistan Naval Academy, said a communiqué here on Sunday. The ambassador was joined by …

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Airport worker dies after plane engine ‘ingests’ him


June 26, 2023

WASHINGTON: US regulators said on Sunday they are investigating an incident in which a Texas airport worker was killed after being sucked into a passenger plane engine. A Delta flight had arrived in San Antonio, Texas from Los Angeles on Friday night and was taxiing to the gate with one engine on “when a worker was ingested into that engine”, …

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Russian strikes kill 13 in rebel-held Syria


June 26, 2023

JISR SHUGHUR: Russian air strikes killed at least 13 people in rebel-held northwest Syria on Sunday, the deadliest attack on the war-torn country this year, a war monitor said. At least nine civilians, including two children, were among the dead, with most killed at a fruit and vegetable market in Jisr al-Shugur in the Idlib region. “These Russian strikes are …

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One killed, seven hurt as rollercoaster derails in Sweden


June 26, 2023

STOCKHOLM: A rollercoaster derailed at a Swedish theme park on Sunday, killing one person and injuring seven, police and the park in Stockholm said. A carriage of the Jetline rollercoaster broke away and fell from a great height, taking several people with it, according to a correspondent for Swedish television SVT at the Grona Lund theme park. The ride, launched …

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Egypt bestows highest honour, the Order of the Nile, on Modi


June 26, 2023

CAIRO: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on Sunday on a rare visit during which both sides pledged to deepen their strategic partnership. They agreed to boost investment by India, the world’s most populous nation, in Egypt, which has the Arab world’s largest population, of 105 million, and which is now in the …

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US Coast Guard launches probe into Titanic sub tragedy


June 26, 2023

The US Coast Guard said on Sunday it had launched an investigation into the cause of the underwater implosion that destroyed the small submersible Titan, with the loss of all five people aboard, including two Pakistanis, during a dive to the Titanic wreck. On board the craft were Engro Corp Vice Chairman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman, British explorer Hamish …

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Russian defence minister appears for first time since Wagner mutiny


June 26, 2023

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu appeared for the first time since a deal was struck on Saturday to end what the authorities had called an armed mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group aimed at ousting him. In a video released on Monday morning by the Russian Defence Ministry, Shoigu was shown flying in a plane with a colleague and hearing reports at a command …

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Barcelona confirm Ilkay Gundogan signing from Manchester City


June 26, 2023

Ilkay Gundogan has signed for Barcelona on a free transfer at the end of his Manchester City contract, the Catalan club said on Monday. The German midfielder, 32, has agreed a two-year deal with the option for a year’s extension and a release clause of 400 million euros.     “He is bringing his presence, nose for goal and reading …

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Indian minister scoffs at Obama comment on protecting Muslims


June 26, 2023

India’s finance minister has derided comments by former US president Barack Obama that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government should protect the rights of minority Muslims, accusing Obama of being hypocritical. During Modi’s state visit to the United States last week, Obama told CNN that the issue of the “protection of the Muslim minority in a majority-Hindu India” would be worth raising in Modi’s meeting with US …

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Biden vows to fight Republicans’ ‘extreme’ anti-abortion agenda


June 25, 2023

WASHINGTON: A year after US Supreme Court scrapped the constitutional right to abortion in the United States, President Joe Biden on Saturday vowed to fight against the “extreme and dangerous” effort by Republicans to curb access to the procedure nationwide. The high court’s decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision passed the regulation of abortion back to individual …

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