Islamabad, February 27 Pakistan’s defense minister said that his country ran out of “patience” and considers that there is now an “open war” with Afghanistan, after both countries launched strikes following an Afghan cross-border attack. In a post on X, Defence Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif said Pakistan had hoped for peace in Afghanistan after the […]
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Kathmandu, February 27 A former rapper who ran Kathmandu as a mayor. The young leader of Nepal’s oldest political party. And a communist veteran politician hoping to return to power after being ousted in youth-led protests in which dozens were killed last year. They are the three leading contenders as Nepal heads into a crucial […]
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By By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN and MUNIR AHMED Kabul (Afghanistan), February 27 Three explosions and the sound of aircraft have been heard in Kabul, hours after Afghanistan launched an attack on Pakistan in retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes on border areas earlier in the week. There was no immediate information on the exact location of the […]
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By Jamey Keaten, Jon Gambrell and Melanie Lidman Geneva, February 26 Iran and the United States began indirect talks Thursday in Geneva over Tehran’s nuclear negotiations viewed as a last chance for diplomacy as America has gathered a fleet of aircraft and warships to the Middle East to pressure Tehran into a deal. US President […]
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Colombo, February 26 Fitness and form were not the only areas in which Sri Lanka failed, said captain Dasun Shanaka as he also blamed the “negative environment created outside” for his team’s ouster from the T20 World Cup and oddly urged the government to protect the players from criticism. Shanaka apologised to his country for […]
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Hobart, February 26 Outplayed in the series-opener, reigning world champions India would aim for an improved batting effort in the second women’s ODI against Australia to keep the three-match rubber alive here on Friday. Having won the T20 series 2-1, a below-par India started the ODI contests on a disappointing note, losing by six wickets […]
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New York, February 25 American tech entrepreneur Bill Gates has apologised to the staff at the Gates Foundation over his ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein but maintained that he did “nothing illicit,” according to a media report. The Microsoft co-founder also admitted that he had two affairs with Russian women and that he […]
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By Sophie Austin Sacramento, February 25 More than a dozen states have sued the Trump administration over its rollback of vaccine recommendations for children, calling the move an illegal threat to public health. The states on Tuesday argue that the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention put children’s lives at risk when it announced last […]
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New Delhi, February 25 The US has announced preliminary countervailing duty of 125.87 per cent on imports of certain Indian solar goods alleging that the products are unfairly subsidised by New Delhi. The US has also announced different duties on the imports of ‘Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled into Modules’ from Indonesia […]
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Yoshita Singh New York/Washington, February 25 US President Donald Trump has said that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told him that 35 million people would have died if it were not for his intervention in stopping the war between India and Pakistan. In his over 100-minute-long State of the Union address on Tuesday, Trump repeated […]
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