BEIRUT: The municipal headquarters in Nabatieh, a major town in south Lebanon, was destroyed by an Israeli air strike on Wednesday, killing the mayor and 15 others as they met to coordinate aid for war victims. The attack raised concerns that Israel’s expanding air campaign to crush Hezbollah might increasingly target public officials and buildings—which have so far been spared—in addition to the terrorist organization. Lebanon’s overseer Head of the state Najib Mikati censured the assault on the common capital, saying it “purposefully designated a gathering of the civil chamber to examine the city’s administration and help circumstance”. Despite US…
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LONDON: On Wednesday, proposals to grant adults in England and Wales who are terminally ill the right to end their lives were introduced in parliament. This sparked a passionate discussion on a topic that polarizes opinion. The helped passing on bill is supposed to permit intellectually able, at death’s door grown-ups with a half year or less left to experience the option to decide to take their lives with clinical assistance. In a decade, this is the first attempt to alter the law. Kim Leadbeater, an official from England’s overseeing Work Party who is behind the bill, said the ongoing…
Disgruntled insiders claim senior figures “compromised” due to threats to families and businesses. The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is mired in an existential crisis as infighting among senior figures has left the party virtually “leader-less” and factionalism is beginning to take root. • Rank and file members are “frustrated” with decisions coming from the top echelons and feel they have “abandoned Imran.” Even though spokespersons for the party would have us believe that everything is going well and that minor disagreements are a normal part of the political process, the truth is that the members of the party are angry with…
China’s and Russia’s prime ministers, as well as senior officials from other member states and observers, were present. The meeting conveyed Pakistan’s readiness to play a leading role in multilateral organizations and demonstrated Pakistan’s once-in-a-generation willingness to engage in business. The summit’s joint communiqué summarized the event’s major themes, which included commerce, the environment, cultural exchanges, and other topics. Altogether, the report reaffirmed endeavors to set up the SCO Advancement Bank and increment “the portion of public monetary forms in common repayments”. The “unilateral application of sanctions is incompatible” with international law was also noted in the document. All of…
The devastating humanitarian impact of the ongoing war on Gaza, which the International Court of Justice recently declared a genocide, has attracted global attention. Notwithstanding, underneath the prompt human misfortune lies a less noticeable, yet similarly disturbing emergency: the methodical annihilation of Gaza’s actual climate and its biological system. This natural calamity, which a few specialists are naming ‘ecocide’, takes steps to have durable results that reach out a long ways past the ongoing struggle, influencing the district’s biology, general wellbeing, and future livability. Besides, this ecological obliteration essentially sabotages the human poise of Gaza’s inhabitants, denying them of their…
After eliminating both of England’s openers on a tricky Multan pitch on Thursday, Pakistan were in a strong position to win the second Test and level the series, with spinner Sajid Khan being the hero. Sajid dismissed Ben Duckett for a duck and fellow spinner Noman Ali bowled Zak Crawley for three, leaving England on 36-2 after day three. The hosts had set England a daunting target of 297. With 261 required for victory and two days remaining, Ollie Pope and Joe Root were both unbeaten on 21 and 12, respectively. Before that, middle-order batsman Salman Agha made 63 and…
As police used tear gas to disperse students protesting the alleged rape of a Lahore student, at least 250 violent protesters were detained in Rawalpindi. A security guard at the private college who was allegedly involved in the incident was arrested by the police last week after reports about the alleged rape of a student went viral on social media. Rankled by the supposed episode, understudies prepared via web-based entertainment and organized fights outside various schools in Lahore throughout recent days. Conflicts with college and police security guards resulted in 28 injuries on Monday. Maryam Nawaz, the chief minister of…
More than one billion individuals are living in intense destitution across the globe, an UN Improvement Program report said on Thursday, with kids representing over portion of those impacted. As 2023 saw the most conflicts since the Second World War, the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)-published paper highlighted that poverty rates were three times higher in war-torn nations. Since 2010, the Multidimensional Poverty Index has been published annually by the UNDP and the OPHI using data from 112 nations with a combined population of 6.3 billion people. It uses indicators like not having enough housing, clean water, electricity,…
After British singer Liam Payne, a member of the best-selling boy band One Direction, fell from the third floor of a Buenos Aires hotel on Wednesday, he died. Charlie Puth, an American singer-songwriter, said he was stunned and could not believe Payne had passed away. Liam always treated me with kindness. One of the first major artists I worked with was him. In addition, the singer of “See You Again” uploaded a video of Payne discussing their friendship during an interview.
A Bangladeshi court on Thursday requested a capture warrant for banished ex-pioneer Sheik Hasina, who escaped to India in August after she was brought down from power by an understudy drove upset. Mohammad Tajul Islam, chief prosecutor of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal, told reporters on Thursday, “The court has […] ordered the arrest of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and to produce her in court on November 18.” Hasina’s 15-year rule saw boundless denials of basic freedoms, including the mass detainment and extrajudicial killings of her political rivals. Islam claimed, describing it as a “remarkable day,” that “Sheikh Hasina was…
