LONDON: From a new face on the country’s stamps and coins to a change of words for the national anthem, Britain has seen a number of alterations since the death of Queen Elizabeth in September and the accession of her son Charles to the throne. Ahead of his coronation on Satur­day (today), here are some aspects of British daily life …

ROME: An anti-vax campaigner on Friday assaulted Italy’s former premier Giuseppe Conte, who imposed strict restrictions at the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, his political party said. The Five Star Movement, the opposition party led by Conte, wrote on Facebook that Conte had been “attacked by an anti-vaxxer in Massa”, a small Tuscan city where he was attending an election …

NEW DELHI: India is considering overturning a ban on foreign investment in its nuclear power industry and allowing greater participation by domestic private firms, two government sources told Reuters, as part of a push for cleaner energy. The measures have been recommended by a government panel, set up by think-tank Niti Aayog which is headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Under …

ROME: The United Nations food agency’s world price index rose in April for the first time in a year but is still some 20 per cent up on a record high hit in March 2022 following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Food and Agri­cul­ture Organisation’s (FAO) price index, which tracks the most globally traded food commodities, avera­ged 127.2 points last …

NEW DELHI: The Shanghai Cooperation Orga­nisation (SCO) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting concluded in Goa on Friday, paving the way for a summit of the group’s leaders in New Delhi on July 3-4. Despite thinly veiled unflattering references to each other, Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers appeared to have ensured that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would participate in the meeting. This leaves …

The Archbishop of Canterbury crowned King Charles in a lavish coronation ceremony in London on Saturday, placing the 360-year-old St Edward’s Crown on the monarch’s head as he sat upon a 14th-century throne in Westminster Abbey. Charles, who succeeded his mother when she died last September, was earlier presented with an array of historical regalia from golden orbs and bejewelled …

KURRAM: Protests erupted in Parachinar on Friday after the burial of seven people, including teachers, who were killed by unidentified gunmen at a school on Thursday. The town remained closed to mourn the deaths. Another teacher, who was killed before the mass shooting of teachers, was buried in Teri Mangal area of the district. The protesters were also joined by …

ISLAMABAD: Experts at a discussion warned that banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was forging nexus with Baloch separatists and local militant groups based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, a development which will likely exacerbate the already precarious security situation in the country. Unlike the past, this is for the first time that TTP has started carrying out terrorist attacks in Pashtoon …

Amid the ongoing tussle between parliament and the judiciary, a crucial bill regarding the right of appeal in the suo motu cases sailed through the Senate on Friday, just days after the National Assembly had adopted it via a supplementary agenda. The bill, titled the Supreme Court (Review of Judgements and Orders) Bill, 2023, was tabled by PML-N’s Irfan Siddiqui and was …

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial cautioned on Friday that the court was exercising restraint and that no one should “misunderstand our intentions” but insisted that an “appropriate order” would be issued in the election schedule case. Though Justice Bandial did not me­ntion or explain what he meant by this, his remarks apparently came against the backdrop …