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McIlory calls for Australian Open rescheduling in bid to lure stronger field
Rory McIlroy, the world’s second-ranked golfer, has called on organizers of the Australian Open to reschedule the event in an effort to attract a stronger international field to the tournament in the future. The Northern Irishman, who completed a career grand slam this year when he won the US Masters, was one of the main
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Hong Kong votes in election as city mourns deadly fire
The Legislative Council election is seen as a test of public sentiment following a deadly fire.
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Tanzania police ban proposed rallies after poll violence
DAR ES SALAAM: Tanzania’s police have banned proposed rallies next week, following a violent crackdown by security forces on election demonstrations. Polls on October 29 erupted into days of violent protests over claims that President Samia Suluhu Hassan had rigged the polls and was behind a campaign of murders and abductions of her critics. She
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ADB approves $381 million for climate-resilient agriculture, social services in Punjab
KARACHI: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Saturday it approved $381 million in financing for Pakistan’s Punjab province to modernize agriculture and strengthen education and health services, with a major focus on building climate resilience after monsoon floods this year caused widespread destruction across the country’s most populous province. The package includes concessional loans
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US says progress made at talks with Ukraine on plan to end war
Talks between senior US and Ukrainian negotiators in Florida continue for a third day on Saturday.
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Pakistan, Muslim countries reject Israel’s plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, together with seven other Arab and Muslim countries, on Friday rejected Israel’s attempt to expel Palestinians by opening the Rafah border crossing with Egypt solely for fleeing Gaza residents, and called for adherence to the peace plan proposed by US President Donald Trump’s administration. Trump’s Gaza plan calls on Israel to allow humanitarian
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Walnut tree remains ‘under arrest’ for over a century, living symbol of colonial power in Pakistan
LANDI KOTAL, KHYBER: In the military cantonment of Landi Kotal, close to Pakistan’s Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan and the mouth of the historic Khyber Pass, a single walnut tree stands bound in heavy iron chains. It has been this way for more than a century, a surreal, almost absurd monument to the power structures
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Pandas and ping-pong: Macron ending China visit on lighter note
CHENGDU: An ancient dam, pandas and ping-pong: French leader Emmanuel Macron concluded his fourth state visit to China on Friday in the southwestern city of Chengdu, striking a more relaxed note after tough discussions on Ukraine and trade with his counterpart Xi Jinping a day earlier. Far from the imposing Great Hall of the People
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In Nigeria, anguish turns to anger for parents of kidnapped children
MAIDUGURI: Two weeks after one of Nigeria’s worst school kidnappings, parents of the more than 250 missing children are desperate for news and dismayed at what they see as the slow response from authorities. Sunday Gbazali, a farmer and father of 12 whose 14-year-old son was among those seized on November 21 in a remote
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