PALERMO: Italy’s former interior minister and far-right leader Matteo Salvini went on trial on Saturday for allegedly illegally blocking over 100 migrants in dire sanitary conditions from disembarking from a rescue ship. On the opening day of the trial in Palermo, Judge Roberto Murgia said all the witnesses submitted by the parties would be allowed to testify, including US actor …

BELGRADE: Serbia on Saturday is set to launch partial Covid-19 passes while Croatia and Slovenia reported high daily rates of infections, as countries with low vaccination rates grapple with a persisting virus surge. Serbia has seen thousands of news cases daily for weeks now and recorded more than 50 deaths each day, in the country of 7 million where about …

Priyanka Chopra recently turned to social media and spoke out about the “tragic” and “shocking” death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The Hollywood diva penned a note to express her thoughts regarding the incident. She shared it to Instagram Stories, leaving an emotional tribute below a captivating black-and-white photograph of the filmmaker The post read, “I am so shook. I …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A judge has denied bond for a man who has been charged with capital murder in connection with a robbery that left a 71-year-old woman dead outside of an east Harris County McDonald’s last month. The judge read the charges aloud in open court Thursday morning against Andrew Williams, 40, who’s accused of stealing Martha Medina’s …

ISLAMABAD: The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC) has termed the draft Pakistan personal data protection bill 2021 vague in many respect and made suggestions to make it of world standards. In a letter to minister for IT and telecom Syed Aminul Haq, the Asia Internet Coalition submitted recommendations to improve the draft Pakistan Personal Data Protection Bill 2021. “We are concerned …

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has restrained the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) from reclaiming further land from the sea and granting such land to anyone as well as creating a third party interest till Nov 16. The SHC also directed the DHA and other official defendants to ensure that the land earlier sanctioned to them as public spaces was …

QUETTA: With the return of four ‘missing’ MPAs from Islamabad to Quetta on Saturday and their announcement of support for angry lawmakers of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP), success of the no-trust motion against Chief Minister Jam Kamal Alyani cannot be ruled out as Nawab Sanaullah Zehri has also joined hands with the disgruntled group. The four MPAs went missing on the …

So far, 2,500 personnel have reached capital, more expected, official says . 126 leaders and activists of banned outfit arrested in Rawalpindi . Number of roads in twin cities remain blocked ISLAMABAD: As the banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) started its protest march from Lahore to the federal capital, the Ministry of Interior sought police personnel and anti-riot gear from Punjab, Khyber …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday announced that over 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in less than nine months. Besides, 68m people have got at least one dose of vaccine out of whom 38m have been fully vaccinated. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan said in a video statement that with the passage …

KARACHI: Dr Anita K.M. Zaidi — president, gender equality division, and director of vaccine development, surveillance and enteric and diarrheal diseases programmes at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — has been elected to the US National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Membership in the NAM is considered one of the highest honours in the fields of health and medicine and …