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China adopts draconian measures to enforce Covid policy: Tibetan administration
CTA said in an attempt to present itself as a role model in curbing the outbreak, China is downright disregarding the safety and security of Tibetans in need of medical assistance and Covid care evidenced by the dire lockdown conditions being reported and exposed online by a number of affected Tibetans.
Pakistan PM House audio leaks trigger political uproar
Audio clips of telephonic conversations between Sharif and an official of the Prime Minister's House has gone viral on social media, raising concerns over the secret tapping of calls and the alleged misuse of power for personal gains. In the audio leaks, Sharif and the official are talking about the import of machinery from India illegally without getting approvals from the government quarters.
Deadly school shooting in Russia claims 13 lives
The incident took place in School No.88 in the city of about 650,000 residents located in the Urals region. In a statement, Russia's Investigative Committee said the gunman died of suicide and had been wearing a ski mask and a t-shirt with Nazi symbols, RT news reported.
Nine dead in Russia school shooting
The incident took place in School No.88 in the city of about 650,000 residents located in the Urals region. Citing the Investigative Committee, Russia's RT news said that the male perpetrator died by suicide after the attack and his identity is currently being established.
NASA set to crash spacecraft into asteroid to protect Earth in future
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a first such mission, was set to impact its target asteroid -- which poses no threat to Earth -- at 7.14 p.m. on Monday (4.44 a.m. on Tuesday IST). "This test will show a spacecraft can autonomously navigate to a target asteroid and intentionally collide with it to change the asteroid's motion in a way that can be measured using ground-based telescopes," the US space agency said in an update.
Swiftly debunked rumours of coups swirl as China prepares to host key meet
The jailing of a clique of senior security officials for corruption, followed by days of strange and quickly dispelled rumours of Xi being under house arrest, have fuelled what one analyst called a "hothouse" environment mired in secrecy and suspicion, The Guardian reported. Last week, a Chinese court jailed the former vice-minister of public security Sun Lijun, the former justice minister Fu Zhenghua, and former police chiefs of Shanghai, Chongqing and Shanxi on corruption charges.
Intelligence Bureau to probe bugging of Pakistan PM's House
This extraordinary breach has set alarm bells ringing as the audio leaks are not only of telephonic conversations, The News reported.
The first such leak, which was uploaded on social media, was a discussion between Sharif and his Principal Secretary (PS) Tauqeer Shah in which the latter was heard saying that Maryam Nawaz had asked him to facilitate her son-in-law, Raheel Munir, with the import of machinery for a power plant from India.
Hungarian chief diplomat calls Western sanctions 'complete failure'
As a result of the EU sanctions imposed so far due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, European inflation is skyrocketing, utility costs, natural gas prices, and food prices have risen, and the continent's economy has entered recession, Szijjarto told public radio channel MR1 on Sunday. "This was a complete failure, as it is now clear that these sanctions have hurt Europe much more than Russia itself and are causing enormous damage to the EU's economy," he added.
Right-wing coalition leads Italy's snap parliamentary polls
The nationalist Brothers of Italy, led by Giorgia Meloni, was the most voted party garnering 24.7 per cent of the ballots cast on Sunday, according to projections provided by Consorzio Opinio Italia pollster and published by state TV Rai News 24. If confirmed, Meloni would most likely become the first woman to serve as the country's Prime Minister in the most right-wing government Italy has had in some 70 years, reports Xinhua news agency.
Pakistan PM's 100 hours-long conversation up for grabs on dark web for $3.5 mn: Fawad Chaudhry
Expressing shock over purported leaked audio clips of government officials, he said: "Even the office of the prime minister of the nuclear-armed country is not safe," Express Tribune reported. Commenting on one of the leaked audio clips featuring a conversation between the Premier and a government official, Fawad said the conversation showed that decisions were being made in London.
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