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. BANGKOK: A teenage Thai student killed at least five people and himself at a school outside Bangkok on Friday after fatally shooting his grandparents, police said, in the Southeast Asian nation’s worst mass killing in nearly four years. Those killed at the school were all teachers and staff, and police said the 14-year-old shooter … Read more
A New York Times analysis details the July 20 crackdown on unarmed protesters in New Delhi that has provoked public outrage and accusations of excessive force.
The inhabitants of the Chagos Islands were expelled by the British 60 years ago. Refugees were anxious to return this year, but their hopes have been caught in a morass of geopolitics.
. KOHAT: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government on Friday inaugurated a Women Business Development Centre in Kohat, built at a cost of Rs338.053 million, to promote women’s entrepreneurship, enhance vocational skills and expand their participation in the provincial economy. The centre was inaugurated by Provincial Minister for Local Government and Higher Education Meena Khan Afridi, accompanied by … Read more
As Ukraine repeatedly strikes warehouses of the e-commerce site Wildberries, Tatyana Kim, its billionaire co-founder, faces her biggest test yet.
Mir Raza Ali, owner of the popular dessert shop Wafflix, whose body was found in Gulistan-e-Jauhar after he was allegedly kidnapped from PECHS. SCREENGRAB/ Youtube KARACHI: Authorities on Friday restored the original medical board to oversee the exhumation and re-postmortem of Wafflix owner Mir Raza Ali, reversing a controversial decision that had triggered strong objections … Read more
[The streaming giant, still looking for this year’s blockbuster, paid an actor to spend three days inside a billboard in Los Angeles to promote an upcoming film.
KKH blocked at multiple locations as citizens across division protested petroleum levy, inflation ROAD RALLY: Protestors cover the busy Murree Road, Rawalpindi, for miles, reserving it for their demonstration against inflation and petroleum prices for the day. PHOTO: EXPRESS ABBOTABAD/ RAWALPINDI: Protests against petrol prices and inflation overran Rawalpindi and neighbouring districts as political leaders … Read more
ELECTIONEERING: A large number of people attend a PML-N election rally in Haveli area of Azad Kashmir on Friday. PHOTO: EXPRESS MUZAFFARABAD: With just days left before the decisive third and final phase of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) general elections, the PML-N intensified its campaign in Rawalakot Division on Friday, expressing confidence of … Read more
[Prime Minister Mark Carney is attempting to prevent 50 percent tariffs against many Canadian goods scheduled for this month.