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A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit the southern Pacific coast of Guatemala late Friday, Al Arabiya News reported citing the country’s INSIVUMEH seismological agency. El Salvador, a neighbour of Guatemala, felt the same earthquake that struck the Escuintla area of Guatemala. No immediate reports of damages or casualties have been made yet. The earthquake was recorded at a depth of 119 kilometres (73.9 miles) by the German Research Centre for Geosciences, which also reported a magnitude of 6.1.

Peter Navarro, who disobeyed a subpoena pertaining to the congressional inquiry into the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, was sentenced to four months in prison on Thursday for contempt of Congress. In September, Navarro was found guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress for disobeying a subpoena issued by the House Select Committee looking into the attack, according to CNN. Prosecutors had requested that US District Judge Amit Mehta sentence Navarro to six months on each offence, running concurrently, and penalise him $200,000. Each count caries a statutory…

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar on Wednesday said that having achieved the first phase of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Pakistan was benefiting from its early harvest projects while remaining engaged with China to execute the next phase. “We have already achieved the CPEC’s first phase and we are benefiting from its early harvest projects. We are entering the second phase. We do need more deliberations when it comes to the second phase,” he said in an interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN). He said CPEC’s second phase…

Turkey approved Sweden’s admission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) on Tuesday, removing a significant obstacle to the previous nonaligned nation’s membership in the armed forces, CNBC reported. With four abstentions, the legislature approved Sweden’s accession protocol by a vote of 287 to 55. It is anticipated that the ratification will take effect soon after it is published in the official gazette. After this, Hungary is the only member of NATO that has not approved Sweden’s membership. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced Tuesday that he sent a letter to his…

As the Republican primary in New Hampshire is scheduled for Tuesday, former US President Donald Trump believed that his opponent former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley is not as mentally stable as him calling for a cognitive test in which he said she’s not gonna win.  Speaking with Fox News Monday, Donald Trump said that he would score higher than the 52-year-old Nikki Haley, who criticised his cognitive abilities claiming that the former president is not fit for another term. Haley had been calling for the evaluation of…