DETROIT: US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic opponent Kamala Harris will debate on Sept 10 on ABC, setting up the first face-to-face match-up between the rivals in what polls show is a close race. In a news conference at his Palm Beach, Florida, residence, Trump said he wanted additional debates on Sept 4 and Sept 25 that would air on Fox and NBC. Harris said in a post on X that she was looking forward to the Sept 10 debate after Trump “finally committed”. She told reporters after a Detroit-area campaign stop that she was open to discussing more debates, but a campaign official…
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SAO PAULO: An airplane carrying 58 passengers and four crew crashed on Friday in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, killing everyone on board, local officials said. The aircraft, a French-made ATR 72-500 operated by the airline Voepass, was travelling from Cascavel in southern Parana state to Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos international airport when it crashed in the city of Vinhedo. Images broadcast on local media showed a large plane nosediving at high speed, while others showed a large column of smoke rising from the crash site in what appeared to be a residential area. “There were no survivors,” the city government in Valinhos —…
GAZA STRIP: Israel has agreed to resume Gaza ceasefire talks next week at the request of international mediators, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, after intensive diplomatic efforts aimed at averting a region-wide conflagration. The announcement followed an Iranian claim that Israel wants to spread war in the Middle East, as well as repeated accusations by Hamas, some analysts, and critics in Israel that Netanyahu has prolonged the fighting in Gaza. There has been only one truce in the Gaza fighting, a week-long pause in November that saw Israeli hostages held by Hamas freed in exchange for Palestinian prisoners detained…
WASHINGTON: The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted two Iranians and a Pakistani national for allegedly providing material support to Tehran’s weapons programme. A superseding indictment, filed on Thursday, charged two Iranian brothers — Shahab Mir’kazei and Yunus Mir’kazei — along with Pakistani Muhammad Pahlawan for “conspiring to provide and providing material support to Iran’s weapons of mass destruction programme”. The development comes on the heels of the DOJ charging another Pakistani national, Asif Raza Merchant, who also allegedly had ties with Iran, in connection with a plot to assassinate a US politician and other officials on American soil. The issue was raised at…
More than 100 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a Gaza school sheltering displaced people, the Gaza government said on Saturday. The strikes hit when people sheltering at the school were performing dawn prayers, leading to many casualties, the media office said in a statement. Medics had not yet been able to reach all the bodies, it said. There was no immediate information from Gaza health authorities. Gaza’s civil defence agency said the death toll from the latest Israeli strike had risen to more than 90. AFP could not independently verify the toll which, if confirmed,…
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has declined to consider a request from the provincial advocate general’s office to form a judicial commission to investigate the May 9, 2023, violent protests in the province, insisting that the request in its current form violates rules. The provincial cabinet had decided on June 27 to establish a judicial commission to look into the riots, which erupted in the province following the arrest of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf founder Imran Khan in Islamabad. In a letter written to the high court’s registrar on July 30, a copy of which is available with Dawn, Advocate General Shah Faisal Utmankhel…
ISLAMABAD: Widespread internet outages on Friday caused disruptions across multiple cities and left social media users grappling with connectivity issues. Some users speculated that the disruptions were the result of a firewall being installed by the government to monitor and keep check on users. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) denied that the issue was caused by the firewall. A senior official in the PTA said that the outages had triggered queries but they are yet to receive complaints. The cause of the internet slowdown remains unclear with no official communication from PTA, who claim that their systems are working. Users are anxiously…
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Friday decided to call off its token hunger strike, urging the youth to come out on streets to celebrate the Independence Day on Aug 14. The decision was made at a meeting of the opposition’s alliance — Tehreek-i-Tahaffuz-i-Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP). The coalition also decided to challenge the recently passed Elections Act 2024 in court. “The meeting decided that PTI will wrap up its token hunger strike camp outside the Parliament House. Students and youth come outside on Aug 13 carrying Pakistani flags in their hands,” said PTI Secretary General Omar Ayub while talking to media persons after…
RAWALPINDI: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Friday said his party had a written agreement with the government on public demands and would keep an eye on the government to provide relief to the masses. Addressing a public meeting at the end of a 14-day-long sit-in in the garrison city, he said JI would challenge the tax system as people had to pay interests on International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans taken for the last many years. He said the government should reduce its expenditures and end the luxurious lifestyle of ministers and bureaucrats. He said the government was acting on the dictation of…
GWADAR: Baloch Yakjehti Committee leader Dr Mahrang Baloch has called for all Baloch people to unite, saying that they should remain committed to the national movement in the face of oppression, injustice, and the enforced disappearance of their loved ones. Speaking at a large gathering at Fida Shaheed Chowk on Friday, after reaching Turbat from Gwadar, ending an 11-day-long sit-in in the port city, she said that the sit-in had ended but their movement had just begun. In response, the Baloch people’s patience, courage, and national resistance had consistently shown that this was their homeland and its wealth belongs to the Baloch, she said.…
