By Asif Shahzad and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Candidates for Pakistan’s next prime minister are due to file nomination papers on Sunday after incumbent Imran Khan lost a no-confidence vote in parliament, bringing an end to the former cricket star’s nearly four years in power. Khan had clung on for almost a week …
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By Khalil Ashawi and Tom Perry IDLIB, Syria/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Abdel Hamid al-Youssef said 25 members of his family, including his wife and infant twins, were killed when poison gas was dropped on their town in Syria in 2017, in an attack a U.N.-backed inquiry concluded was launched by the Syrian state. “In seconds, …
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By Gloria Dickie and Dasha Afanasieva LONDON (Reuters) – Dozens of international scientists have arrived each year since 2000 at Russia’s remote Northeast Science Station on the Kolyma River in Siberia to study climate change in the Arctic environment. Not this year, though. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry froze …
Ukraine conflict hurts Russian science, as West pulls funding Read More »
By Sonali Paul and John Mair MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia will hold a general election on May 21, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday, triggering a campaign expected to be fought over cost-of-living pressures, climate change and questions of trust and competence of the major parties. Morrison played up economic uncertainties and security threats in …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s foreign ministry expressed “strong dissatisfaction” with the United States late on Saturday after it raised concerns over China’s coronavirus control measures. The U.S. State Department said on Friday that non-emergency staff at its Shanghai consulate and families of U.S. employees could leave due to a surge in COVID cases and coronavirus …
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By Syed Raza Hassan and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Shehbaz Sharif, the person most likely to be Pakistan’s next prime minister, is little known outside his home country but has a reputation domestically as an effective administrator more than as a politician. The younger brother of three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Shehbaz, 70, …
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By Elizabeth Piper KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine is ready for a tough battle with Russian forces amassing in the east of the country, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered fresh financial and military support during a surprise visit. At a meeting in Kyiv, Johnson told Zelenskiy that Britain …
Zelenskiy braces for ‘hard battle’, UK’s Johnson visits with aid Read More »
By Asif Shahzad and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan lost a confidence vote in parliament on Sunday, the speaker of the lower house said, following desertions from coalition partners who blame him for a deteriorating economy and failure to deliver on his campaign promises. The announcement of the vote’s result …
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By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD -Imran Khan was ousted as Pakistan’s prime minister on Sunday after a no-confidence vote in parliament, bringing to a premature end a tenure marked by a deteriorating economy and signs that he had lost the trust of the powerful military. Defections from his coalition reflected growing disillusionment among many Pakistanis over …
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(Refiles to fix garble in headline) SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Shanghai carried out another round of mass COVID-19 testing on Saturday, this time testing residents at least twice in a single day, as a city official in China’s financial hub acknowledged shortcomings in the handling of the outbreak. It was the fourth consecutive day of city-wide …
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