The most polarized US election in decades was on a knife-edge Tuesday as President Donald Trump appeared to have held off predictions of a sweeping Democratic wave but Joe Biden also scored key wins. Eight states are still left to be counted, but in the race to achieve the magic figure of 270 to become […]
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LONDON: Several Pakistani students belonging to various universities in London gathered outside the French Embassy in London to register a protest against French President Emmanuel Macron. Macron, who had said he or his officials did not support the cartoons in a recent interview, had warned that though he understands Muslims are hurt by the publication […]
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As the Election Day countdown begins, with more than 94 million ballots already cast and US President Donald Trump still leading the polls through key swing states, internet searches about the presidential candidates have peaked across all states. According to Google Trends, 49% of the candidate searches were related to Joe Biden. On the other […]
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Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden’s campaign on Sunday released an ad that urges President Donald Trump to keep one promise that he has made repeatedly during his campaign for the US election 2020. President Trump, warning crowds of voting against him in the November 15 election, has said on several occasion, that he wouldn’t return […]
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The Commission on Presidential Debates said Friday it has cancelled next week’s showdown between Donald Trump and his challenger Joe Biden, after the president said he would not participate in a virtual format. “Each (candidate) now has announced alternate plans for that date,” the commission said in a statement, adding “it is now apparent there […]
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SLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi will visit Kuwait on Monday to offer condolences over the sad demise of the emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. The president will meet the new emir of Kuwait Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and convey the profound sympathies and condolences of the leadership, government and people of Pakistan, the Foreign […]
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WASHINGTON: The global downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic will not be as bad as originally feared, IMF Chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Wednesday, but she also warned that the “crisis is far from over”. “The picture today is less dire … allowing for a small upward revision to our global forecast for 2020,” she said […]
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MUMBAI: Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty was granted bail on Wednesday after being arrested nearly a month ago for allegedly buying drugs for her former boyfriend, actor Sushant Singh, who died by suicide, leaving India’s film industry under the spotlight for mental health as well as drug use. Rajput, 34, was found dead in June in his […]
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Amid the hot issue of the raging Armenia and Azerbaijan clash – that has kept the netizens quite busy since the decades-long territorial dispute re-emerged on Sunday — the Pakistani actress, Armeena Khan has asked Twitteratis not to confuse her name spelling with the former Soviet republic ‘Armenia’. Clarifying the confusion on Twitter, the Janaan […]
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YEREVAN: Two ex-Soviet republics in the Caucasus, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, are engaged in a decades-long territorial dispute which has re-erupted with the heaviest clashes in years on Sunday. Here are the key factors surrounding their conflict: Nagorny Karabakh At the heart of the standoff between Yerevan and Baku is the contested Nagorny Karabakh region. The Soviet […]
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