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Germany’s far-right AfD secures first state election win: exit polls

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Germany’s far-right AfD Sunday achieved a historic win in the regional elections in Thuringia, according to exit polls, marking a significant setback for Chancellor Olaf Scholz ahead of the 2025 national elections.  The AfD garnered between 30.5% and 33.5% of the vote in Thuringia, while the conservative CDU came in second with approximately 24.5%.  In the neighboring state of Saxony, which also held regional elections on Sunday, the CDU led slightly, with the AfD trailing closely behind, as indicated by the polls. The AfD is unlikely to come to power…

FO terms Indian FM’s remarks on Kashmir ‘dangerously delusional

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The Foreign Office (FO) on Sunday categorically rejected Indian Minister for External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar’s remarks on Jammu and Kashmir, terming them “misleading” and “dangerously delusional”. On Friday, Jaishankar said that the era of “uninterrupted dialogue” with Pakistan is over while saying that New Delhi will respond to developments “whether positive or negative”. “So far as Jammu and Kashmir is concerned, Article 370 is done. The issue [now] is what kind of relationship we can contemplate with Pakistan,” the Indian media quoted him as saying at a private event. In…

Austerity measures: PM Shehbaz directs ministries to save ‘each penny’ of taxpayers

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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said that the country cannot afford that the bureaucracy and the elite enjoying luxuries at the expenses paid in taxes by the poor as the federal cabinet greenlighted the continuation of austerity drive. “In view of the larger national interests, all ministries and institutions should take all possible decisions and initiatives that could save each penny of the nation,” the premier said while chairing a meeting of the federal cabinet. He said that steps were being taken, on a priority basis, to further improve…

$5m meth disguised as 12,000 melons caught in US

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United States border agents pulled over a produce-laden tractor-trailer only to find out that the watermelons loaded on it were actually bundles of methamphetamine worth $5 million worth wrapped in coloured paper.  Smugglers disguised more than 4,500 pounds (2,000 kilograms) of the addictive drug as melons, hid them amongst other cargo and tried to truck them across the border from Mexico.  The paper used to package meth was painted to look like the juicy fruit.  Border agents pulled over the produce-laden tractor-trailer at Otay Mesa in California on Friday and got…

Terror attack on police checkpost in Central Kurram martyrs cop

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KURRAM: Terrorists on Sunday attacked a police checkpost in Central Kurram, leaving one policeman martyred and injuring another, police told Geo News. The terrorist, according to  District Police Officer Ahmed Khan, set fire to the checkpost after the gun attack. The martyred policeman was identified as Qoowat Khan, while Constable Shahzad has been injured in the attack. He has been shifted to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Sadda in Central Kurram for treatment. Funeral prayer of the martyred policeman has been offered in the wake of the attack. The region has witnessed multiple…