Новости за 08.08.2024

ISTANBUL: Turkiye on Wednesday filed its official request to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over its conduct in the war in Gaza in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, the foreign ministry said.

IN 2013, the World Bank indicated that Bangladesh could become the ‘next China’. While the bank may have been focusing on the economic and demographic dividends which Bangladesh might have gained over other countries, in many ways the country replicated recipes of authoritarianism with far less panache than practised elsewhere.

• Vows to expel, prosecute any supporter implicated by CCTV evidence
• Seeks an apology for being manhandled by Rangers personnel at time of arrest on May 9
• £190m case may conclude next week after prosecution withdraws 14 witnesses

• PTI urges SC to set aside changes to Elections Act, restrain ECP from doling out seats to others
• ECP wants verdict reviewed, says it ‘ignored’ constitutional provisions to facilitate one party

LONDON: With far-right protests planned for Wednesday and thousands of riot police deployed across Britain to deal with the threat of riots, a survey on the British public’s views on the riots and the response from Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his government shows widespread disdain for their handling of the situation.

• Says FY25 outstanding debt payment stands at $26.2bn
• Over $16bn will be rolled over by friendly countries

LAHORE: A report released by the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) on Wednesday revealed that so far 55 persons have died and 145 others injured in rain-related building collapse and lightening incidents etc, during the ongoing monsoon season in Punjab.

ISLAMABAD: In an attempt to quash speculations, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif appointed Rashid Mahmood Langrial, a BS-21 officer of the Pakistan Administrative Services, as the new chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on Wednesday. He faces the daunting task of carrying out end-to-end digitisation of the tax process.

SUKKUR: The district and sessions court on Wednesday granted bail to teenage female tutor, who along with her three brothers, were arrested in connection with alleged sexual assault on a five-year-old girl on July 30.