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Tesla hit by new lawsuit alleging racial abuse against black workers


July 2, 2022

Fifteen black former or current employees at Tesla filed a lawsuit against the electric car maker on Thursday, alleging they were subjected to racial abuse and harassment at its factories. The workers said they were subjected to offensive racist comments and behaviour by colleagues, managers and human resources employees on a regular basis, according to the lawsuit filed in a …

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US, Taliban agree to stay engaged


July 2, 2022

WASHINGTON: The United States and Afghanistan’s de facto rulers concluded a two-day meeting in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday, and a Taliban spokesperson said the talks focused on freeing frozen Taliban assets. This was the first in-person talks between the two sides in more than three months and the two sides agreed to continue their talks, said a Taliban statement issued …

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KP asks centre to address ex-Fata, healthcare funding issues


July 2, 2022

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has demanded of the federal government to address the tribal districts and Sehat Card funding issues and ensure the transfer of net hydel profit on a monthly basis to enable it to sign the sought-after memorandum of understanding with it on fiscal responsibility. The centre had agreed with the International Monetary Fund in the recent …

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CJCSC Gen Raza meets Iranian president, discusses bilateral and strategic cooperation


July 2, 2022

Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Nadeem Raza — who is currently in Iran on an official visit, has called on President Ebrahim Raisi and discussed matters of bilateral strategic interest and regional security environment with him. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Saturday, both sides displayed the desire to initiate meaningful …

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Imran, Nawaz supporters plan rival London protests


July 1, 2022

LONDON: PML-N and PTI activists have planned simultaneous protests at the family homes of their parties’ rival leadership. A poster by PTI calls on its workers in London to gather in Hyde Park on July 2 and then march to Avenfield House, the UK residence of Nawaz Sharif and his family. In response, PML-N has called on its London supporters …

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Girls’ education raised at all-male Kabul jirga


July 1, 2022

KABUL: At least one participant at a gathering organised by the Taliban of 3,000 male religious and ethnic leaders from across Afghanistan called on Thursday for high schools for girls to reopen. Two gunmen were shot dead near the site of the gathering. Taliban officials said the two started firing from a rooftop near where the meeting was taking place, …

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US re-engagement with Taliban may lead to release of $9bn


July 1, 2022

WASHINGTON: As the United States and the Taliban reengaged in Doha on Thursday, US officials defended the talks, saying that isolating Kabul’s de facto rulers would not promote US interests in Afghanistan. “We believe that we can accomplish more in Afghanistan by engaging, rather than isolating the Taliban,” a US State Department official told Dawn on Thursday when asked why Washington decided …

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BJP wrests back control of Maharashtra ahead of 2024 election


July 1, 2022

MUMBAI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party is returning to power in the country’s richest state, Maharashtra, giving it a fillip ahead of the 2024 national election after an unlikely ruling alliance of parties crumbled after more than two years. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party will now form the government in Mumbai’s home state along with a faction of the regional …

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Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as first Black woman on US Supreme Court


July 1, 2022

WASHINGTON: Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in on Thursday as a US Supre­­me Court justice, making history as the first Black woman on the nation’s top judicial body while joining it at a time when its conservative majority has been flexing its muscles in major rulings. Jackson, 51, joins the liberal bloc of a court with a 6-3 conservative majority. …

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Ukraine fetes Russian pullback from strategic Snake Island outpost


July 1, 2022

KYIV: Russia on Thursday withdrew from Snake Island, a craggy speck of land in the Black Sea, handing Ukraine a symbolically-potent political victory and depriving Moscow of a strategic outpost for its air defences and electronic warfare systems. The island’s capture by Russian forces on the first day of their invasion entered Ukrainian folklore. Just over four months later, Kyiv’s …

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