BERLIN: A 29-year-old police officer died on Sunday after being repeatedly stabbed during an attack at an anti-Islam rally in Germany. A knife-wielding man attacked and wounded several people on Friday on the market square in the city of Mannheim in southwest Germany. Five people taking part in a rally organised by Pax Europa, a campaign group against Islam, were wounded in the attack. The policeman was “stabbed several times in the area of the head” while trying to intervene, local police said in a statement. Immediately following the attack, he underwent “emergency surgery and was put in an artificial coma”, but…
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MALE: The Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives will ban Israelis from the luxury tourist hot spot, the office of the president said on Sunday, announcing a national rally in “solidarity with Palestine”. The Maldives, a tiny Islamic republic of more than 1,000 strategically located coral islets, is known for its secluded sandy white beaches, shallow turquoise lagoons and Robinson Crusoe-style getaways. President Mohamed Muizzu has “resolved to impose a ban on Israeli passports,” a spokesman for his office said in a statement, without giving details of when the new law would take effect. Muizzu also announced a national fundraising…
COLOMBO: Flash floods, mudslides and falling trees have killed at least 14 people in Sri Lanka as the island nation is battered by monsoon storms, the country’s disaster centre said on Sunday. Some drowned, including three members of the same family swept away near the capital Colombo on Sunday. Others were buried alive in mudslides, including an 11-year-old girl and a 20-year-old man, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said. Nine other people were crushed and killed when trees fell on them in seven districts since the monsoon intensified on May 21, the DMC said. While Sri Lanka depends on the…
SINGAPORE: China will not allow any country or force to create war or chaos in the Asia-Pacific, its defence minister said on Sunday, warning that there were “limits” to Beijing’s restraint on the South China Sea and over the deployment of ballistic missiles in the region. In a keynote speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue, AFP quoted Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun as saying: “China has maintained sufficient restraint in the face of rights infringements and provocation, but there are limits to this”. The Philippines and the United States are longstanding treaty allies, and Manila is a key focus of Washington’s efforts to…
JERUSALEM: An aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that Tel Aviv had accepted a framework deal, advanced by US President Joe Biden to wind down the war, even as Israel bombarded the Gaza Strip on Sunday. With 60 deaths among Palestinians over the past 24 hours, the death toll climbed to 36,439, the health ministry in Gaza said. A statement said 82,627 people had been wounded in the Gaza Strip since Oct 2023. In an interview with UK’s Sunday Times, Ophir Falk, chief foreign policy adviser to Netanyahu, said Biden’s proposal was “a deal we agreed to”, adding that though it’s…
India saw nearly 25,000 cases of suspected heat stroke and 56 people lost their lives after several heat wave days across the country from March-May, local media reported, citing government data. May has been a particularly bad month for the region, with temperature in capital Delhi and nearby state of Rajasthan touching 50 degrees Celsius. In a contrast, parts of eastern India have been reeling under the impact of cyclone Remal. Heavy rain in the north eastern state of Assam has killed 14 people since Tuesday. In the island nation of Sri Lanka, at least 15 people have died due to flooding…
Claudia Sheinbaum was elected Mexico’s first woman president by a landslide Sunday, making history in a country plagued by rampant criminal and gender-based violence. Crowds of flag-waving supporters sang and danced to mariachi music in Mexico City’s main square celebrating the ruling party candidate’s victory. “I want to thank millions of Mexican women and men who decided to vote for us on this historic day,” Sheinbaum said in a victory speech to the cheering crowd. “I won’t fail you,” the 61-year-old former Mexico City mayor vowed. She thanked her main opposition rival Xochitl Galvez, who conceded defeat. Sheinbaum, a scientist by…
GILGIT: The first-ever Gilgit-Baltistan Youth Policy 2024, recently approved by the cabinet, is aimed at employment generation, youth empowerment and prevention of suicide tendencies in the region. The policy has been prepared according to local dynamics, challenges faced by local youth to ensure equitable access to public resources, addressing disparities related to gender, geography, socio-economic status, and disabilities among youth, according to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) consultant Altaf Hussain. He told Dawn that the UNFPA and GB youth affairs department drafted the policy with the consultation of stakeholders. Aligned with national priorities and international commitments, GB Youth Policy 2024 has adopted…
RAWALPINDI: Firefighters controlled fires that broke out in the forests of Kahuta and Kotli Sattian after hours-long efforts on Sunday. According to emergency services Rescue 1122 officials, bushfire broke out at different points in the jungle of Baigar Sharif of Kahuta at about 2:30pm and another erupted in a forest in Guzara tehsil of Kotli Sattian at about 3:30pm. According to emergency services, more than seven firefighters and rescuers were engaged in extinguishing the flames in the jungle of Kahuta village, which was controlled by firefighters after efforts of more than three hours. Similarly, Rescue 1122 officials said after receiving…
ISLAMABAD: Marking the highest optimism in last two years, 18pc Pakistanis believe that the country is heading in the right direction. It said males were twofold more optimistic than females. However, economic problems continued to top the list of worrying issues for Pakistanis. These were the crux of the “Consumer confidence index survey” conducted by a market research company, Ipsos, for the second quarter of the year 2024. The study, in which over 1,000 people were interviewed, was held in all four provinces, Islamabad, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The data collection was done May 20 to May 29.…
