Nairobi, Kenya – Ethiopia is set to meet its domestic electricity demands and consequently facilitate its economic development thanks to the inauguration of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Expected to be Africa’s largest hydropower facility, the dam’s first turbine began generating electricity. The $4.2-billion (3.7-billion-euro) dam is ultimately expected to produce more than 5,000 megawatts … Read more
Even before it gathered any significant steam, the much trumpeted crusade of the opposition parties to bring Imran Khan down seems to have become a non-event, and the planned no-trust move against the Premier a non-starter. The events unfolding on the political horizon, including Prime Minister Imran Khan’s counter-offensive launched soon after his return from … Read more
President Xi Jinping has urged efforts to speed up fostering world-class enterprises to play a bigger role in the country’s march toward the second centenary goal of fully building a modern socialist country. Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remark on Monday while presiding over … Read more
Two minutes into a Greek jobs fair interview, Hashim, a 21-year-old Afghan refugee, is offered work as a waiter at a swanky Corfu hotel. It’s his ticket out of the grim migrant camp he has called home for the past year, but there’s a caveat: he has to cut his ponytail. “Health and safety protocol,” … Read more
While the Colombian government fumes over being listed as a “hunger hotspot” by UN agencies, Heidy Garzon — a single mother of nine — worries where her family’s next meal will come from. “We don’t know what we’re going to eat tonight,” Garzon told AFP in a shantytown neighbourhood of Ciudad Bolivar in the south … Read more
Lt Gen (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch is a veteran politician from Balochistan who served as the corps commander Qeutta before being appointed by General Pervez Musharraf as the Balochistan governor. Baloch was elected to the National Assembly from Kharan district in the 2008 general election as an independent candidate. In 2011, he joined the Pakistan … Read more
WASHINGTON – The Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2021, released by the State Council Information Office last week, shows that the human rights situation in the US worsened last year. For instance, there was a sharp surge in Covid-19 deaths particularly among the most disadvantaged groups due to epidemic prevention … Read more
Disgusted with corruption and power-hungry politicians, Nebojsa Kalamanda is already planning his exit from Bosnia, leaving behind a broken political system and a stagnant economy. The 21-year-old computer science student living in Banja Luka — the headquarters of Bosnia’s Serb ‘entity’ — says he hopes to move to Switzerland after finishing university, citing the increasingly … Read more
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – When US prosecutors struck a deal with a hedge-fund billionaire to surrender 180 stolen artefacts to their places of origin, they insisted victims of his plunder would see “justice”. But Palestinians doubted it would apply to them. They saw Michael Steinhardt’s December agreement with prosecutors in Manhattan as yet another setback in … Read more
New Delhi – Atul Mishra, a 25-year-old resident from India’s eastern state of Bihar, has been staying in Delhi, the country’s capital city, for the past four years, hoping to get a job via extra training. Mishra is among millions of unemployed youth in India trying to get a job that would change the fortunes … Read more
A unique legal challenge questioning the authority of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to investigate corruption cases under the National Accountability Ordinance has been pending adjudication in the Sindh High Court for nearly two years. The matter, however, recently took a strange turn when the petitioner filed a miscellaneous application, praying the court that in absence … Read more
After ranking first in the list of performing ministers, Federal Communication Minister Murad Saeed has become the talk of the town. In an appreciation ceremony on February 10 2022, Prime Minister Imran Khan awarded certificates to his top ten highest performing ministers and Saeed somehow topped the list, which has left many wondering how he … Read more
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Haqooq-e-Sindh march arrives in Karachi today (March 6) after traversing the province days before a similar march led by the ruling party of Sindh – the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) – is set to reach Islamabad with the aim to dislodge the PTI led federal government. The PTI had announced to … Read more
Riyadh – Pakistan’s newly-appointed Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ameer Khurram Rathore met the community members in an introductory ceremony organised by the Pakistani Embassy in Riyadh to further strengthen fraternal ties between both countries. Rathore assured everyone that the Embassy of Pakistan would take all possible steps to resolve issues of the community. The ambassador … Read more
SHIBERGHAN – An Afghan woman has helped in constructing a school for girls in the country’s northern Jawzjan province, which has been welcomed by Afghans as an initiative towards developing education in the country. In Aqcha, a far-flung district of the Jawzjan province, Hajji Bibi Nazira has built a 12-classroom school on 650 square metres … Read more
MEDYKA – After leaving Afghanistan a year ago, Ajmal Rahmani believed he had found a haven of peace in Ukraine. This week, he and his family had to flee again — this time to Poland to the sounds of Russian bombs. “I run from one war, come to another country and another war starts. Very … Read more
MOSCOW/NEW YORK/LONDON – Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday accused Western politicians of fixating on nuclear war, one week after Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine. “It is clear that World War Three can only be nuclear,” Lavrov said in an online interview with Russian and foreign media. “I would like to point out … Read more
After finding a “mystery hut” that turned out to be a rabbit-shaped rock, China’s Yutu 2 lunar rover has once again spotted interesting things on our celestial neighbour — two glass spheres. A group of Chinese researchers, headed by Xiao Zhiyong from the Planetary Environmental and Astrobiological Research Laboratory at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, … Read more
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) high expectations from the Ghotki-Karachi march are not exactly meeting, primarily due to the ruling party’s inaction in the province and its failure in tackling key issues such as inflation, shortage of wheat, sugar and medicines, the serious rift within the party and poorly-organised setup in Sindh and the soaring rate of … Read more
Even before it gathered any significant steam, the much trumpeted crusade of the opposition parties to bring Imran Khan down seems to have become a non-event, and the planned no-trust move against the Premier a non-starter. The events unfolding on the political horizon, including Prime Minister Imran Khan’s counter-offensive launched soon after his return from … Read more
In the process of carrying out its continuous search for a teenage girl who has been missing from a village for the past 20 months, the Sargodha police have managed to recover more than 200 missing girls from various districts in the Sargodha Division. Police’s countrywide search operation to recover the 17- year-old Sobia Batool, … Read more
SEOUL – North Korea said it had carried out a test of “great significance” for developing a reconnaissance satellite, state media reported, after Seoul said it had detected a ballistic missile launch. Despite sweeping international sanctions, Pyongyang carried out a record-breaking blitz of weapons tests in January before pausing launches during the Beijing Winter Olympics. … Read more
WASHINGTON – The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan has been worsening and it has left more than 20 million people desperate for assistance, as per the United Nations. After the Taliban took over the war torn country in August 2021, several countries around the world halted or cut the funding to Afghanistan. Hence, recently, the World … Read more
GAZA – For 45 minutes, Julia Ahmed, a young Palestinian woman from Gaza, sits on a sofa, listening to musical chants mixed with the sounds of sea waves, in a bid to get rid of her psychological pressure. For many years, the 32-year-old mother of a child suffered from various problems, which brought her to … Read more
Johannesburg – Determined to use her skills to fight inequality, South African computer scientist Raesetje Sefala set to work to build algorithms flagging poverty hot spots — developing data sets she hopes will help target aid, new housing or clinics. From crop analysis to medical diagnostics, artificial intelligence (AI) is already used in essential tasks … Read more
AMARAH, Iraq – A judge shot dead with 15 bullets from a Kalashnikov. A policeman gunned down. Local figures from rival political groups and influential armed factions killed. The murders all happened in January and February in one Iraqi province, Maysan, which borders Iran and where drug trafficking, tribal disputes and political score-settling have combined … Read more
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has generated an inspiring wave of solidarity around the world, but for many — especially non-White observers — it has been impossible to tune out the racist biases in Western media and politics. Western media is covering the Ukrainian crisis with blatant racism. Numerous Western news outlets have aired views and … Read more
Queen Elizabeth II held two virtual audiences on Tuesday, Buckingham Palace said, after she was forced to cancel engagements last week due to Covid. Concerns have mounted for the 95-year-old monarch’s health since she tested positive on February 20, overshadowing the start of her record-breaking 70th year on the throne. But a palace statement indicated … Read more
