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Shehbaz urges shift to EVs amid fuel crisis
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday, alluding to recent regional situation and spiraling global petroleum prices, underlined the need for introduction of environment-friendly electric vehicles (EVs) across the country, thus saving country's precious foreign reserves. Addressing a ceremony of provision of eco-smart electric vehicles to the Islamabad Capital Traffic Police, the prime minister said that such like precedents of energy saving initiatives should be emulated by all the la...
PTI to mark govt ouster anniversary
Imran Khan's PTI has announced a protest for April 9, the date the party was removed from power four years ago following a no-confidence motion. Addressing a press conference at K-P House on Monday, party leaders including Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and Junaid Akbar Khan, announced that the party will hold a countrywide protest on April 9. They also demanded permission to stage a rally at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi that day, asserting that holding a public g...
3 dead, 15 injured as Russia hits Ukraine’s port city Odesa in major drone strike
At least three people were killed on Monday in the latest powerful Russian drone strikes on the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa. Fifteen residents, including a pregnant woman and two children, were injured, military governor Oleh Kiper reported on Telegram, after a drone struck a multi-storey residential building. Those killed included a 30-year-old woman and her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, as well as a 53-year-old woman. There were fires and significant destruction, Kiper...
Egypt Renews Support for Morocco’s Sovereignty Over Western Sahara
Rabat – Egypt has renewed its support for Morocco’s sovereignty over its southern provinces in Western Sahara on Monday. Cairo renewed its position during the first session of the Moroccan-Egyptian Coordination and Follow-up Committee, convening representatives from both countries to discuss bilateral cooperation. During the meeting, chaired by Morocco’s Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch, and the Egyptian Prime Minister, Mostafa Madbouly, Egypt also endorsed the UN Security Council Resol...
Lockerbie victim's father calls on government to make one crucial move
Lockerbie victim's father calls on government to make one crucial moveDr Jim Swire's daughter Flora was killed in the 1988 terrorist bombing and has claimed official documents were not released due to the UK "slavishly following instructions" from the USCommentsNewsAnders Anglesey News Reporter18:10, 06 Apr 2026View 5 ImagesDr Jim Swire has called on the government to release official documents (Image: PA)The father of one of the Lockerbie bombing victims has called on the UK...
Rabat to Host National March in Support of Palestine on April 19
Rabat – The National Working Group for Palestine issued a press release yesterday, announcing a national march in Rabat for Palestine on Sunday, April 19. The group’s statement on Facebook said the march will begin from Bab El Had in Rabat and proceed along Mohammed V Avenue. It will end in front of the Train Station in Rabat. “This popular march is being held to denounce and condemn the ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people, and to reject the policies of closing the blessed A...
Israel’s Netanyahu ousts top aide after he allegedly made racist remarks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday sacked his chief of staff following the publication of leaked comments in which he allegedly made racist remarks. “Ziv Agmon will leave his post in the coming days once his successor, Ido Norden, takes office,” Netanyahu said in a post on X late on Sunday. Agmon, who has been serving as Netanyahu’s acting chief of staff and spokesperson, provoked outrage last week after reportedly referring to Jew...
Top cops out: The Attorney General firings and forced exits that made history
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s departure last week was the latest in a series of high-profile firings or resignations of America’s top law enforcement officer, from a key Watergate figure to a well-respected attorney whose differences with the president became irreconcilable.Former President George Washington appointed Founding Father and former Virginia Gov. Edmund Randolph the nation’s first attorney general in 1789, and in the years since, there have been dozens of successors, some lost to hist...
Georgia set to hold special election runoff to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene's seat
Georgia's 14th Congressional District is set to hold a special election runoff on Tuesday between Democrat Shawn Harris and Republican Clay Fuller to fill former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's seat. CBS News' Fin Gomez has more.
Vanity Fair Faces Scrutiny Over Editing Controversial Chloe Fineman Video About Her Pantsing 6-Year-Old Boy at Summer Camp
“Saturday Night Live” star Chloe Fineman faced scrutiny over an unexpected story in a Vanity Fair video about her pantsing a six-year-old boy when she worked at a summer camp as a teenager. Her “SNL” co-stars expressed shock at the story, which ended with Fineman getting fired by the camp, but Vanity Fair has removed […]
اورشلیمپست: ورود نیروهای زمینی آمریکا به ایران چه تاثیری در منطقه ایجاد میکند
روزنامه اورشلیمپست در تحلیلی نوشت که ورود احتمالی نیروهای زمینی آمریکا به خاک ایران میتواند آستانهای خطرناک در جنگ را فعال کند و به واکنشهای زنجیرهای در سراسر خاورمیانه و حتی اقتصاد جهانی منجر شود.
Greek PM vows to tackle ‘deep state’ in wake of farm fraud scandal
Kyriakos Mitsotakis calls alleged scamming of EU agricultural funds ‘a turning point’ The Greek prime minister has vowed to tackle what he has called a “deep state” he says is plaguing the country, as he sought to address a burgeoning political crisis over a farm fraud scandal that has forced the resignation of multiple government ministers.In a speech, aired on national TV, Kyriakos Mitsotakis attempted to limit the damage, describing the revelations as “a turning point” that had turbo-charged...
House Republican predicts Trump will deploy troops in Iran: ‘I just don’t see any other way’
Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas), a former Air Force officer, said on Monday he expects President Trump to deploy troops in Iran and suggested such an escalation is unavoidable. “I just don’t see any other way,” Fallon said in an interview on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” when asked whether he thinks “we’re going to…
ترامپ: مردم ایران اگر بدانند به آنها شلیک نمیشود، با حکومت مقابله میکنند
دونالد ترامپ گفت مردم ایران خواهان آزادیاند اما به دلیل تهدید به شلیک به خیابان نمیآیند. او افزود به محض اینکه بدانند کشته نخواهند شد و بتوانند به سلاح دست یابند، مقابله خواهند کرد و در آن صورت اوضاع کاملا تغییر میکند.
Trump: Iran ceasefire proposal ‘significant,’ ‘not good enough’
President Trump on Monday said the latest ceasefire proposal from Iran was “significant” but still “not good enough.” “They made a proposal and it’s a significant proposal. It’s a significant step. It’s not good enough, but it’s a very significant step,” Trump told reporters ahead of the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll. “They have…
US Supreme Court paves way for dismissal of Steve Bannon conviction
US Supreme Court paves way for dismissal of Steve Bannon conviction51 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleKayla EpsteinBloomberg via Getty ImagesThe US Supreme Court has paved the way for Steve Bannon's contempt of Congress conviction to be thrown out, sending the case back to a lower court where it is likely to be dismissed.Bannon, one of Trump's most prominent backers, was convicted in 2022 for refusing to respond to lawmakers' subpoenas for information about the Janua...
Iran war and the toll on Asia
Asia is paying a heavy price for the war launched on February 28 by US President Donald Trump. Countries belonging to the Asian continent buy 90 per cent of the Liquefied Natural Gas, LNG, that the Middle East produces. That flow of LNG has been severely disrupted by the war in the Middle East. This disruption will show little sign of easing until at least 2028, when a wave of US gas production is expected to bring new supplies. Asia's biggest economies – China, Japan, South Kore...
London council defends Palestinian twinning deal as it is accused of 'marginalising Jewish community'
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Top GOP defense voice breaks with invasion fears, says US can reopen Hormuz without ground war
Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, said he doesn't think mobilizing ground troops in Iran will be "necessary" to open up the Strait of Hormuz, a critical trade waterway that has been blocked by the Iranian military for more than a month.Turner, a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, appeared on ABC’s "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" on Sunday, just hours after President Donald Trump threatened Iran to "open the F-----' Strait" or else "you'll be living in Hell."Stephanopoulos asked...
Trump says he would keep Iran's oil but Americans wouldn't understand
President Trump commented on potential proposals to end the war in Iran and said if it were up to him, he would keep Iran's oil. Mr. Trump made the comments during the White House's annual Easter Egg Roll.