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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during a guided tour of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts before leading a board meeting on March 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesA federal judge on Monday is set to question lawyers for the Department of Justice on whether the Trump administration disobeyed his order demanding the return of alleged gang members back to the United States if they were still airborne as part of a deportation effort.Chief Judge James Boasberg earlier Monday rejected a request by the DOJ that the hearing in U.S. District Court…
Listen to article An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad has declared Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders Murad Saeed, Hammad Azhar, and former party leader Farrukh Habib as absconders in cases related to the Judicial Complex attack due to their repeated absence from numerous court hearings. ATC Judge Tahir Abbas Sipra presided over the hearing against the PTI leaders. The court also issued arrest warrants for Wasiq Qayyum Abbasi, Raja Basharat, and several other absentees in the case. Following the attendance of the available accused, the court adjourned further hearings on both cases until April 7. The PTI leaders are facing two cases registered…
Western powers and regional neighbours attend the conference in Brussels aimed at helping the country rebuild after civil war.The European Union has hosted a donor drive for Syria to encourage a peaceful transition following the ousting of former leader Bashar al-Assad. Western and regional powers participated in Monday’s one-day meeting in Brussels, chaired by EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas. Fourteen years of civil war killed hundreds of thousands of Syrians, displaced millions more, and decimated the economy. Among all donors, the EU reported that 5.8 billion euros ($6.3bn) was pledged in aid for Syria. “Together we have pledged a…
Each year 36 million trees fall due to decay, disease, natural disasters or clearing for new development. The vast majority of those trees are either burned, sent to a landfill or ground up for mulch, which wastes energy and causes carbon emissions. Now, new technology is being used to find, transport and recycle that wood and make it useful once again.Cambium is a startup aiming to disrupt the wood recycling space. Its Baltimore-based researchers are working on new ways to track, treat and transfer old wood into the supply chain. It bills itself as the platform “where timber meets tech.””We make…
Renowned Islamic scholar Dr Zakir Naik visited former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz at their residence in Raiwind. During the meeting at the Sharif family’s estate, the scholar and PML-N leaders reportedly discussed various issues. However, no official statement has been released regarding the specifics of the conversation. Last week, former Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Hafeez has sparked controversy after meeting Dr. Zakir Naik. Hafeez shared pictures from their meeting on social media, prompting widespread criticism. Hafeez posted, “Pleasure meeting with Zakir Naik,” alongside images of them together, including one at a restaurant. Pleasure meeting with…
Children like Samantha are the core group currently eligible for Colombia’s temporary protection permit (PPT), since eligibility for adults was restricted in 2023. Colombia established the PPT programme in 2021 to encourage Venezuelans to seek legal immigration status. It was hailed as a breakthrough in addressing the migration and refugee crisis: The permits are valid until 2031 and allow Venezuelans to access Colombia’s education system, employment and other services. Andrés Moya, a professor at the Universidad de Los Andes School of Economics, has studied the benefits of the PPT. He found that Venezuelans with regularised immigration status had higher monthly…
United States President Donald Trump says he will speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday about ending the Ukraine war with territorial concessions by Kyiv and control of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant expected to feature prominently in the talks. “We want to see if we can bring that war to an end,” the US president told reporters on Air Force One during a flight back to the Washington, DC, area from Florida on Sunday. “Maybe we can, maybe we can’t, but I think we have a very good chance. “I’ll be speaking to President Putin on Tuesday. A…
A water tower at the U.S. Steel Corp. Edgar Thomson Works steel mill in Braddock, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 4, 2024.Justin Merriman | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Trump administration filed a motion to extend two deadlines in U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel’s lawsuit against a U.S. national security panel to give the government more time to wrap up merger talks with the firms, a filing showed on Monday.The filing is the clearest indication that U.S. President Donald Trump may allow the deal, scuttled by his predecessor Joe Biden, to proceed in some form.In January, the two companies filed a lawsuit against…
Listen to article Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has declared that it will not support any counter-terrorism operation unless it has public approval, arguing that national security decisions must be made through consensus. The party also accused the government of imposing a “civil martial law”, suppressing dissent, and failing to address rising terrorism effectively. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, PTI Information Secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram said that the current administration is silencing opposition voices and making arbitrary arrests. He criticised the handling of security matters, stating that military operations require public confidence to be successful. “Decisions cannot be imposed through force. If…
The United States is in the midst of a soft coup. The country is being reshaped and restructured under the second administration of Donald Trump. It is not Trump himself, but his billionaire special adviser, Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, who is guiding this change. And in Musk’s America, there is one demographic that seems to have found itself at centre stage and rapidly gaining power: “nerds”. Indeed, Musk’s mendacious band of merry, young white and white-adjacent acolytes, including Gavin Kliger, Edward Coristine, and Marko Elez, who has gained control over multitrillion-dollar government systems, easily fit the…