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Relatives of passengers lost on the 2014 flight have continued to demand answers from Malaysian authorities.The latest search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been suspended as it is “not the season”, according to the country’s transport minister, more than a decade after the plane went missing. “They have stopped the operation for the time being, they will resume the search at the end of this year,” Anthony Loke said in a voice recording sent to the AFP news agency on Thursday. “Right now, it’s not the season.” Flight MH370, a Boeing 777, was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew…
India’s lower house of parliament has passed a controversial bill moved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government to amend laws governing Muslim endowments worth more than $14bn. The waqf bill would add non-Muslims to boards that manage the endowments and give the government a more significant role in validating their land holdings. Waqf refers to personal property – moveable or immovable – that is permanently donated by Muslims for religious or charitable purposes. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) argues the proposed changes to a 1995 waqf law will help fight corruption and mismanagement while promoting diversity. But Muslims fear the…
Listen to article ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: With Eid holidays coming to an end on Wednesday, the process to expel all illegal foreigners and Afghan Citizen Card (ACC) holders is likely to gain momentum as the deadline for their voluntary departure has officially expired. In this connection, Interior Minister Mohsin Raza Naqvi called on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday and briefed him about the progress with regard to the repatriation process of the Afghan nationals. According to official data, a total of 886,242 undocumented Afghan nationals have left Pakistan as of April 1, with repatriations continuing. Authorities have warned of strict legal action against…
President Donald Trump has announced a series of sweeping tariffs against trade partners, describing April 2 as “Liberation Day” and arguing that the punitive steps would bring industry and jobs back to the United States by fighting against what he claims are unfair duties imposed by others on US goods. Trump’s latest tariffs, announced on Wednesday, coupled with a series of similar moves since he returned to office on January 20, mark the most dramatic escalation in US tariffs in almost a century. Several nations have said they would retaliate, raising the risk of a global trade war marked by…
BREAKINGBREAKING, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Hungary in defiance of the ICC’s arrest warrant against him.Hungary’s government has announced it will withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), just before Prime Minister Viktor Orban was to receive his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, the subject of an ICC arrest warrant. “Hungary exits the International Criminal Court. The government will initiate the withdrawal procedure on Thursday, in accordance with the constitutional and international legal framework,” Orban’s chief of staff Gergely Gulyas posted on Facebook on Thursday. The announcement comes as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Budapest early Thursday morning…
Apple’s iPhone 16 at an Apple Store on Regent Street in London on Sept. 20, 2024.Rasid Necati Aslim | Anadolu | Getty ImagesApple has made moves to diversify its supply chain beyond China to places like India and Vietnam, but tariffs announced by the White House are set to hit those countries too.U.S. President Donald Trump laid out “reciprocal tariff” rates on more than 180 countries on Wednesday.China will face a 34% tariff, but with the existing 20% rate, that brings the true tariff rate on Beijing under this Trump term to 54%, CNBC reported. India faces a 26% tariff, while Vietnam’s…
MELBOURNE: Incoming Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) chief Mark Arbib hopes the 2032 Brisbane Games will persuade the nation’s talented young athletes to pursue medals over football careers. Australian Rules football and rugby league have long dominated the country’s professional sports market, offering the kind of salaries and support to young athletes that Olympic sports struggle to match. Arbib, confirmed on Wednesday as the replacement for outgoing Chief Executive Matt Carroll, said the AOC needed to compete hard against the National Rugby League (NRL) and the Australian Football League (AFL) to lure talent. “I am a big fan of the NRL…
U.S. President Donald Trump inspects a Guard of Honour at Buckingham Palace on June 3, 2019, in London.Toby Melville | Getty ImagesU.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer told business leaders in Downing Street on Thursday that while President Donald Trump has a “mandate” to act in the interests of his country, the U.K. has a right to respond to the 10% levy the White House decided to impose on the country’s imports to the States.Still, he called for “cool heads” as he said that Britain would “move now to the next phase of our plan.””Decisions we take in the coming days…
The second batch of emergency humanitarian aid supplies dispatched by the Chinese government arrives at Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar, April 3, 2025. (Xinhua/Jia Haocheng)YANGON, April 3 (Xinhua) — The second batch of emergency humanitarian aid supplies dispatched by the Chinese government arrived at Yangon International Airport in Myanmar on Thursday.The second batch of aid supplies includes 800 tents, 2,000 blankets, 3,000 boxes of biscuits, 2,000 boxes of mineral water and other urgently needed supplies. The supplies were transported to Yangon by a chartered flight from China.The first batch of emergency humanitarian aid supplies dispatched by the Chinese government…
Listen to article LAHORE: For more than a decade, Lahore has choked under a thick blanket of smog and air pollution. But successive governments seem more focused on polishing their green credentials than making a real difference. Continuing this trend, the newly formed Environment Protection Force aims to lead by example in a city where most commercial and private vehicles still run on petrol, with no proper emissions monitoring. Its solution? Patrolling the streets and conducting inspections in 25 gleaming hybrid carspurchased at a staggering cost of Rs 250 million, funded under the World Bank Green Program. To give the government the…