Month: September 2024

Myanmar junta makes rare request for foreign aid to cope with deadly floods

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TUANGOO, MYANMAR: Myanmar’s junta chief made a rare request Saturday for foreign aid to cope with deadly floods that have displaced hundreds of thousands of people who have already endured three years of war. Floods and landslides have killed almost 300 people in Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand in the wake of Typhoon Yagi, which dumped a colossal deluge of rain when it hit the region last weekend. In Myanmar, more than 235,000 people have been forced from their homes by floods, the junta said Friday, piling further misery on…

Ruling allies on board as govt ‘decides to form constitutional court, amend Article 63-A’

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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday took coalition parties into confidence over the much-touted ‘constitutional package’ as the government plans to establish constitutional court and amend Article 63-A of the Constitution — which is also known as defection clause. The prospects of the said constitutional package come amid speculations revolving around extension in the tenure of Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa — who is set to retire in October this year — after the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) sought an early issuance of notification regarding the next top…

PTI lawmakers, detained from ‘parliament premises’, produced in National Assembly

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ISLAMABAD: Following the issuance of production orders by National Assembly (NA) Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, as many as 10 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Members of National Assembly (MNAs), who were arrested from the premises of Parliament House for allegedly violating newly-enacted public gathering law, were produced in the lower house on Thursday. The speaker, a day earlier, issued production orders of the PTI MNAs after a scathing criticism from the former ruling party as well as some members of the treasury benches. He also suspended five security staff, including the lower house…

CJP Isa says he won’t accept any person-specific proposal on fixing tenure

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ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa has termed media reports quoting his stance on jurists’ extension following an “off-the-record” conversation with journalists “misinterpreted”, stating that he will not accept any “individual specific” proposal on fixing the tenure of the country’s top judge. It was reported a day ago that CJP Isa — who is set to retire in October this year — had categorically rejected accepting an extension in his tenure, however, he suggested the government to go ahead with extending the tenure of other jurists. The top…

Trump says Harris ‘copied Biden’s plan’ for economy

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Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump said during his televised debate with Kamala Harris on Tuesday that his Democratic rival had no economic plans of her own, and had copied President Joe Biden’s policies. “She doesn’t have a plan. She copied Biden’s plan, and it’s like four sentences… four sentences that are just, ‘Oh, we’ll try and lower taxes.’ She doesn’t have a plan,” he said during the prime-time showdown on ABC. Here are takeaways from the debate: Handshake Heading into the debate, there was a question as to how Harris…

Germany intensifies border controls in immigration crackdown

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Germany’s government announced plans to impose tighter controls at all of the country’s land borders in what it called an attempt to tackle irregular migration and protect the public from threats such as Islamist extremism. The controls within what is normally a wide area of free movement – the European Schengen zone – will start on September 16 and initially last for six months, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Monday. The government has also designed a scheme enabling authorities to reject more migrants directly at German borders, Faeser said,…