In the two weeks since Joe Biden ended his reelection bid, Harris has gained full control of the party, smashing fundraising records, packing arenas and erasing the polling leads Trump had built over the president. “I couldn’t be prouder,” Biden posted on X after her nomination. The nomination milestone came with Harris preparing to hit the campaign trail next week for a swing across seven crucial election states alongside her yet-to-be-named running mate. The Democratic Party decided on a virtual nomination process — departing with tradition and mirroring the procedure used in the pandemic-hit 2020 election — because of an early deadline in Ohio…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
The funeral of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh took place in Qatar on Friday following his assassination two days ago in Iran’s capital Tehran — one in a series of killings of senior figures in the Palestinian group as the fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza rages. Mourners at the ceremony in Imam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab Mosque, the Gulf emirate’s largest, just north of the capital Doha included Khaled Meshaal, who is tipped to be the new Hamas leader. Other senior Hamas officials and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani also attended. Mourners lined up for funeral prayers inside the mosque while…
WASHINGTON: Former president Donald Trump said on Friday the prisoner swap between the United States and Russia was a “win” for President Vladimir Putin as he continued to offer baseless speculation over the agreement. Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, two other Americans and a green card holder are back in the United States after being freed by Putin as part of a massive, multi-country East-West prisoner exchange. Trump, the Republican nominee for the November 5 presidential election, set out in an interview with Fox Business why the exchange was bad news for America as he sought to downplay President Joe Biden’s success in securing…
SYDNEY: An Israeli strike that killed seven aid workers in a Gaza convoy was the result of “mistaken identification” and a raft of other serious failures, the Australian government found in a report released on Friday. Australian national Lalzawmi Frankcom was among a group of seven World Central Kitchen staff killed when their convoy, working to distribute food and water, was mistakenly hit by Israeli missiles in April. Canberra is now pushing for Israel to apologise to the victims’ families and urging its military to rethink how it engages with aid groups in the Palestinian enclave. The deaths of an Australian, three Britons, a…
SAN FRANCISCO: The United States in a lawsuit on Friday accused TikTok of violating children’s privacy by collecting data about them without their parents’ permission when they use the app. The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) joined forces in a civil suit saying the popular video-snippet-sharing app broke the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). “TikTok knowingly and repeatedly violated kids’ privacy, threatening the safety of millions of children across the country,” FTC chair Lina Khan said in a release. The law bars websites from gathering personal information about children younger than 13 years of age without…
HOUSTON: The inaugural three-day Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI) Convention, held under the auspices of the Mayor’s Advisory Board, has concluded. The event marked a historic moment for Houston, with prominent Pakistani-American businessman Javed Anwar receiving the AAPI Legacy Award for his exceptional service to the White House and Presidential Advisory Commission. The convention, hosted by Mayor Houston’s Advisory Board for AAPI, attracted esteemed guests, including Houston Mayor John Wittmeyer, Congressman Al Green, and renowned Pakistani-American business leaders Javed Anwar and Saeed Sheikh, President of the Houston-Karachi Sister City Association. A networking event on the first day drew a large…
MANILA: A 6.8magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the southern Philippines early Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said, with no tsunami warning issued. The quake hit at a depth of 17 kilometres (10.5 miles) about 20 kilometres from the village of Barcelona on the east of Mindanao island, the USGS said. The local seismological agency said no damage was expected, but it warned of aftershocks. Earthquakes regularly strike the Philippines, which sits along the Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of intense seismic and volcanic activity that stretches from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.…
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday revoked plea deals agreed to earlier this week with the man accused of masterminding the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two accomplices, who are held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Pentagon said on Wednesday the plea deals had been entered into but did not elaborate on details. A US official said they almost certainly involved guilty pleas in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table. However on Friday, Austin relieved Susan Escallier, who oversees the Pentagon’s Guantanamo war court, of her authority to enter…
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah admitted on Friday that industries were rapidly losing viability and there were reports about closures, as electricity tariffs had gone way too high. “We are pursuing this matter as well and, in this regard, provincial government is going to have an electricity generation and distribution company in the province very soon,” he disclosed during the inauguration of ’My Karachi — Oasis of Harmony Exhibition 2024 at the Expo Centre. He said that electricity being produced by the Nooriabad Power Plant cost Rs15 per unit, but it was being provided to industrial units…
GWADAR / QUETTA: Protest demonstrations, roadblocks and clashes between protesters and security personnel continued in Quetta, Gwadar and other parts of Balochistan on Friday amid an apparent trust deficit between the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) and the provincial administration over the implementation of a recently signed agreement. Balochistan government officials claimed that dozens of protesters and BYC supporters were released following the agreement, making it BYC’s responsibility to end the protests. However, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee insisted that the situation had already deteriorated in the Noshki area, where clashes erupted after highways and roads were blocked. The BYC alleged that one man was…
