VATICAN: After the passage of 5 centuries, King Charles III wrote history by becoming the first monarch to pray publicly with a pope during his Vatican visit Thursday (23rd Oct, 2025). The joint prayer manifested the augmenting bonds between Catholics and Anglicans. It is pertinent to mention here that in the 16th century Henry VIII […]
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JERUSALEM: Marco Robio, the US Secretary of State, has dismissed far-right parliamentarians’ symbolic step of granting approval to a bill authorising Israeli authorities to annex the occupied West Bank here on 23rd Oct, 2025. Maintaining that Israeli move regarding West Bank would jeopardise Phase I of US Plan for ending Israel-Hamas skirmishers, Marco Rubio said: […]
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RAWALPINDI CRICKET STADIUM: South African cricket team has levelled the two-match series 1-1 beating Pakistan by eight wickets in the 2nd Test here on Thursday (23rd Oct, 2025). Proteas’ 36-year-old off-spinner Simon Harmer hunted six scalps yielding only fifty runs. Chasing the 68-run target set by Green Shirts, Skipper Aiden Markram scored 42 runs, while […]
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SHIKARPUR (SINDH): A ceremony was held here to facilitate seventy-two dacoits (including a number of most-wanted criminals, with combined head money of rupees sixty million) from the riverine (katcha) area of Sindh, lay down their weapons on Wednesday during a surrender ceremony held at Police Lines in Shikarpur. The surrendered weapons included Klashnikovs, rocket launchers […]
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CHAGAI (BALOCHISTAN): Armed forces of Pakistan have neutralised six terrorists in the Dalbandin area here on Wednesday (22nd Oct, 2025). According to details security forces tracked the formation of terrorists in Balochistan’s Chagai mountains by means of aerial reconnaissance. An operation was carried out and all the six terrorists hiding in a cave were eliminated. […]
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KARACHI: PNS Yarmook, working in direct support of Combined Task Force (CTF), seized narcotics worth $1 billion from two dhows in the Arabian Sea Saturday (18th Oct, 2025). US. Central Command congratulated the Saudi-led Combined Task Force 150 of Combined Maritime Forces “for successfully seizing more than $972 million worth of narcotics. Over a 48-hour […]
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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump, who is getting a $250 million (90,000-square-foot) ballroom built on East Wing of White House, has said that he and donors would foot the construction bill. Taking to Truth Social, President Donald Trump said: “I am pleased to announce that ground has been broken on the White House grounds to build […]
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RAWALPINDI: On the 2nd day of 2nd Test, South African cricket team scored 185 in 1st innings for 4 at stumps against Pakistan on Tuesday (21st of Oct, 2025). Earlier, the cricket team of Pakistan – that is leading the Test match series one-nil – scored 333 runs (all out) in first innings. First Test: South […]
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TOKYO: The Parliament of Japan has elected conservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s 104th (and first female) prime minister here on Tuesday (21st Oct, 2025). Leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Sanae Takaichi, known as the Japan’s Iron Lady, bagged 237 votes in the Lower House and 125 votes in the Upper House. […]
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PARIS: Nicolas Sarkozy, 70, who was president from 2007-2012, began serving a 5-year prison sentence in a small cell of La Santé prison’s isolation wing here on Tuesday (21st Oct, 2025). Sarkozy, who is the first ex-president of (modern) France to go behind bars, has appealed against his jail term. He rejected the case involving […]
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