Category: WORLD NEWS

Lahore, Jul 9 (DIN NEWS) Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz will be arrested on their arrival at any airport in Pakistan as they have been convicted in a corruption case, a senior minister said today. Maryam last evening shared her flight details to return to Pakistan with media persons. She said she will reach at Lahore airport on Friday at 6:15 pm by Ittehad Airways’ flight EY-243. “The government will implement accountability court’s order in letter and spirit and arrest Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz…

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Dhaka, Jul 8 (DIN NEWS) A 70-kg touchstone idol of Hindu god Vishnu, worth crores of rupees, has been recovered in northern Bangladesh, a media report said today. The idol was recovered last night from a house at Paschim Haghuria village in Natore district, 203-km from the capital, the Dhaka Tribune reported, citing officials. A team of Natore district administration raided the house following a tip-off, NDC Anindya Kumar said. The idol weighed about 70-kg and was worth several crores of Bangladeshi takas, the official added. Natore Deputy Commissioner Shahina…

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Mihara (Japan), Jul 8 (DIN NEWS) Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned today of a “race against time” to rescue flood victims as authorities issued new alerts over record rains that have killed at least 48 people. The torrential downpours have caused flash flooding and landslides across central and western parts of the country, prompting evacuation orders for more than two million people. “Rescues, saving lives and evacuations are a race against time,” Abe said as he met with a government crisis cell set up to respond to the disaster.…

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Tehran, Jul 7 (DIN NEWS) Iran today accused US President Donald Trump of destabilising the oil market with his flurry of tweets taking aim at the OPEC cartel. “These days… the price is dependent on the behaviour of Mr Trump,” Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said on state television. “Every day, Mr Trump has a new message or remark that causes concern in the market, or he gives OPEC members orders that are very insulting,” or demands other countries increase their production, Zanganeh said. “It’s an insult to the…

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Phuket (Thailand), Jul 7 (DIN NEWS) Recovery divers have pulled 41 bodies from the sea off the Thai holiday island of Phuket, officials said today, 48 hours after a boat capsized in rough waters killing dozens of Chinese passengers. Many of the dead were found drifting in the sea, still wearing life jackets, several kilometres from where the Phoenix went down after being hit by five-metre (15-foot) high waves in a storm on Thursday evening. It is one of the worst boat disasters in the recent history of Thailand, a…

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Washington, Jul 6 DIN NEWS) The list of contenders to fill a Supreme Court vacancy by retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy is narrowing, with President Donald Trump telling reporters that he’s focused on two or three people ahead of his Monday announcement. “I think I have it down to four people. And I think of the four people I have it down to three or two,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. The president, who was travelling to a campaign rally in Montana, has wrapped up the interview process and…

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Islamabad, Jul 6 (DIN NEWS) Pakistan’s deposed premier Nawaz Sharif was today sentenced in absentia to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment by an anti-graft court in one of the three corruption cases against him in the Panama Papers scandal, dealing a huge blow to his party ahead of the elections on July 25. Sharif’s 44-year-old daughter and co-accused Maryam was given seven years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of two million pounds, while her husband Capt (retd) Muhammad Safdar was jailed for one year for not cooperating with the…

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Beijing, Jul 5 (DIN NEWS) China today welcomed Air India’s decision to change Taiwan’s name to Chinese Taipei on its website and asserted that foreign companies operating in the country must obey China’s law and respect its sovereignty and territorial integrity. China views Taiwan, an island which has been independent since 1950, as a rebel region that must be reunited with the mainland – by force if necessary. China had raised concerns about Taiwan being described as a separate region by some airlines worldwide, following which carriers like Singapore Airlines,…

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Johannesburg, Jul 5 (DIN NEWS) A plan to auction a night in Nelson Mandela’s prison cell was condemned today by site officials who said they had no knowledge of the proposed charity “sleepover”. The annual CEO Sleepout initiative had said it was raising funds by auctioning a night in the cell on Robben Island, where Mandela spent much of his 27-year incarceration. The online auction had already attracted supposed bids of up to 300,000 (256,000 euros), but the plan attracted immediately criticism. “As Robben Island museum, we strongly condemn this…

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Karachi, Jul 4 (DIN NEWS) Six Pakistani security personnel were killed and two others critically injured in rocket attacks by militants in the troubled Balochistan province, officials said today. The incident took place on Monday in a mountainous region 30 kilometres from Mashkay area of Awaran district when the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) members were sweeping the area for mines and explosives. The militants used rockets to fire on the team from the mountains and in the explosions six members of the BDS were killed, while two others sustained severe…

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