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SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk is no longer joining the board of Twitter, the CEO of the social media company said late on Sunday, in a reversal less than a week after announcing the Tesla and SpaceX chief would be appointed. Musk was named to join the Twitter board after buying a major stake in the firm and becoming its largest …

ISLAMABAD: PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif became the 24th prime minister of the country after taking oath of the office at the presidency on Monday. As President Arif Alvi excused himself to administer the oath to Mr Sharif on health grounds, Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani performed this constitutional duty. In a related development, senior bureaucrat Tauqeer Shah was made principal secretary …

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has conveyed to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that it’s not in India’s interest to increase oil imports from Russia, the White House said on Monday. Mr Biden and Mr Modi had their first virtual summit that focused on the war in Ukraine where the invading Russian army is struggling to curb a strong Ukrainian …

WASHINGTON: The United States said on Monday that it values its ‘long-standing’ cooperation with Pakistan but will not like to comment on the regime change in Islamabad. “We are closely following developments in Pakistan,” a spokesperson for the US State Department told Dawn when asked for comment on Shehbaz Sharif’s election as the country’s new prime minister. “The United States has no …

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States was monitoring what he described as a rise in human rights abuses in India by some officials, in a rare direct rebuke by Washington of the Asian nation’s rights record. “We regularly engage with our Indian partners on these shared values (of human rights) and to that end, we are monitoring some …

MONTE CARLO: Novak Djokovic admitted on Sunday that his absence from tournaments due to his continued and controversial refusal to get vaccinated “has been difficult, mentally and emotionally” but he is “moving on”. The world number one’s only appearance in 2022 was in Dubai in February where he played just three matches. Having been deported from Melbourne, and missing out on a …

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s doctors warned on Sunday they were nearly out of life-saving medicines and said the island nation’s economic crisis threatened a worse death toll than the coronavirus pandemic. Weeks of power blackouts and severe shortages of food, fuel and pharmaceuticals have brought widespread misery to Sri Lanka, which is suffering its worst downturn since independence in 1948. The …

LONDON: Supporters of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf faced off outside the residence of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif in London on Sunday, as one group celebrated and the other protested the ouster of PTI chairman Imran Khan from the premiership. A heavy police contingent stood in a chain between the two groups as they chanted slogans against …

TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign minister said on Sunday that Washington is “imposing new conditions” in the negotiations to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement. “On the issue of lifting sanctions, they [Americans] are interested in proposing and imposing new conditions outside the negotiations,” state news agency IRNA quoted Hossein Amir-Abdollahian as saying. “In the last two or three weeks, the American side has made …

TUNIS: Tunisians on Sunday protested against President Kais Saied, accusing him of imposing one-man rule in the North African country after he dissolved parliament last month. A political crisis in the country intensified last month when more than half of the members of parliament held an online session to revoke Saied’s decrees. “We are facing a failed dictatorship that is …