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PARIS: Newly-crowned world champion Marc Marquez was on Monday ruled out of the next two races after suffering a fracture and ligament injury to his right shoulder in the Indonesia MotoGP race. The Spaniard was shunted off his Ducati at high speed on the first lap of the Indonesia MotoGP on Sunday. Ducati said the … Read more
SHANGHAI: World number three Alexander Zverev was knocked out of the Shanghai Masters by France’s Arthur Rinderknech 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Monday, leaving Novak Djokovic as the tournament’s top-ranked player. In stifling conditions, the 54th-ranked Frenchman came back from a set down to stun an increasingly rattled Zverev into submission. The German had injured his … Read more
[Under new guidelines, journalists will not need approval from the Defense Department before publishing articles containing information not officially released.
GILGIT: Inspector General of Police (IGP) Gilgit-Baltistan Afzal Mohammad Butt on Monday revealed that eight to ten terrorists were involved in the assassination attempt on prominent religious scholar Maulana Qazi Nisar Ahmad. He said the real perpetrators have been identified and that their arrests are expected within the next few days. Speaking to media representatives … Read more
ISLAMABAD: In his dissenting note in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) judges transfer case, Supreme Court judge Shakeel Ahmad has disagreed with the contention of IHC petitioner judges that intelligence agencies have a role in matters pertaining to appointment or transfer of judges. In February this year, three judges from different high courts were transferred … Read more
ISLAMABAD: In what appeared to be a high-level intervention to defuse political tensions between the Sindh and Punjab governments, President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday summoned Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi to Karachi for urgent consultations, Express News reported. The move came as a war of words between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which governs … Read more
On Sunday, three contestants were crowned winners of the inaugural, government-run “Mexico Sings” competition, meant to promote songs that aren’t about drug cartels or violence.
PUTRAJAYA: Pakistan and Malaysia on Monday renewed their long-standing friendship with a flurry of high-level engagements, culminating in the signing of six significant accords to bolster cooperation across trade, education, Halal certification, anti-corruption, and tourism. The signing of the six memoranda of understanding (MoUs) during the visit by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif marks a decisive … Read more
In the tunnels of Gaza where she was held captive, Emily Damari learned how to survive. These photos show her learning to be alive again.
[The executive order also made the federal government a 10 percent shareholder in the mining company Trilogy Metals.