PHILADELPHIA: A shooting between rival groups left three people wounded on Tuesday (10th April, 2024) at an Eid-ul-Fitr fest held here. “We are very, very fortunate today that we did not have more individuals shot and anyone killed,” Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel told reporters. “In mid-afternoon as around 1,000 people were in the park celebrating […]
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KARACHI: According to UN over two billion children are expected to be exposed to heatwaves by 2050. Massive heatwaves across East Asia and the Pacific could place millions of children at risk, the UN warned on Thursday (11th April, 2024) calling for action to protect vulnerable people from the soaring temperatures. Global monitors have warned […]
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MANHATTAN: The President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Dennis Francis, has announced the UN body’s inaugural Sustainability Week, encapsulating a series of high-level discussions and initiatives aimed at propelling the implementation of sustainable practices and to address pressing challenges. To be held from 15 to 19 April, the UN chief’s flagship initiative converges […]
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HUB: Eighteen zaireen (pilgrims) lost their lives, while 40 got injured (5 critically) when the over-speeding truck carrying 100 voyagers (from Thatta’s Qasim Jokhio village) to the shrine of Shah Noorani in Khuzdar area of Balochistan, got out of the driver’s control while negotiating a turn and plunged into a ravine 10pm on the first […]
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GAZA: Israeli airstrike at Al–Shati Refugee Camp here on Wednesday (10th April, 2024) has claimed lives of 3 sons (Hazem, Amir, Mohammad) and 2 grandsons of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh. Largely Qatar-based Haniyeh told that his children were visiting relatives at the camp in northern Gaza on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr when their vehicle was […]
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PARIS: While Alba/Piedmont-based Mondo is supplying 2024 Summer Olympics with custom purple track (instead of conventional terracotta), another Italian company Myrtha is providing the competition and warm-up pools (at La Défense Arena and the Olympic Aquatic Centre). Myrtha Pools, informing that the partnership had been formalized by Tony Estanguet – President of Paris 2024, and […]
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CAMBRIDGE: Agatha Christie’s 1930s typewriter and the manuscript of her final Hercule Poirot novel, which was kept for decades in a bank vault, were displayed on Saturday in a new exhibition delving into the “dark stuff” at the heart of crime fiction. The cover of the faded and fragile manuscript has the book’s title “Curtain” […]
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Garges-lès-Gonesse: H. E. Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, Pakistan’s Envoy to France, offered Namaz-e-Eid–ul-Fitr here on Wednesday (10th April, 2024) alongwith the Embassy staff and members of Muslim Community. Asim Iftikhar Ahmad lauded the city Mayor’s presence on the occasion and exchanged Eid greetings. Stade Garges-lès-Gonesse: Members of the Muslim Community converged here to offer Namaz-e-Eid-ul-Fitr on […]
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WASHINGTON: Biden, while calling on Israel to agree to a ceasefire, termed Netanyahu’s approach to the war in Gaza as a mistake. Maintaining that Gaza should have total access to all food and medicine for the next six to eight weeks, Biden held that it was outrageous how the aid organisation’s vehicles had been hit […]
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ISLAMABAD: A total of five women cricketers have been recalled to the white-ball squads as the National Women’s Selection Committee, led by Saleem Jaffar, announced 16-member ODI and T20I squads against West Indies women’s team on Tuesday. The three ODIs – part of ICC Women’s Championship 2022-25 – would be played between 18 April and […]
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