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Pakistan seeks US help to soften IMF terms
This request was made by Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in his meeting with the visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Department of the Treasury for Asia, Robert Kaproth, Geo News reported. The loan programme is stalled since months and the Shehbaz Sharif government is finding it hard to implement the lender's conditions amid a tense political environment in the country with elections due in months.
India joined Quad as a result of China's aggressive actions: Mike Pompeo
"The country (India) has always charted its own course without a true alliance system, and that is still mostly the case. But China's actions have caused India to change its strategic posture in the last few years," Pompeo wrote. "In June 2020, Chinese soldiers clubbed twenty Indian soldiers to death in a border skirmish. That bloody incident caused the Indian public to demand a change in their country's relationship with China," he added.
US school warned multiple times about boy with gun: Lawyer
The shooting, which authorities have described as "intentional", took place on January 6 at the Richneck Elementary School in the city of Newport News, about 112 km south of the state capital Richmond, the BBC reported. Abigail Zwerner, the 25-year-old teacher, was released from hospital last week after being treated for her gunshot injury she sustained on her chest.
Any Abrams combat tanks given by US to Ukraine will 'burn': Russia
Germany has announced plans to deploy Leopard 2 tanks, while the US President Joe Biden has announced the decision to supply 31 M1 Abrams tanks. The move marks a significant shift in Western assistance for Ukraine, which has primarily focused on defensive measures. Germany also announced plans to supply Ukraine with heavy artillery, air defense systems, and rocket launchers.
Fresh evidence of destruction of religious heritage sites, mistreatment of Tibetans by China
Among the religious sites and objects destroyed in Drago county were three colossal Buddha statues, a Buddhist school, a building housing with 45 giant prayer wheels, the home of a revered spiritual leader and Drago Monastery's prayer flags, which were removed and burned, the report by London-based Free Tibet says.
Japanese Buddhists back selection of next Dalai Lama by Tibetans, not China
China, which annexed Tibet in 1951, rules the western autonomous region with an iron hand and says only Beijing can select the next spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, as stated in Chinese law. But Tibetans believe the Dalai Lama chooses the body into which he is reincarnated, a process that has occurred 13 times since 1391, when the first Dalai Lama was born, RFA reported.
Meta to restore Trump's Facebook, Instagram accounts
The announcement was made by Meta's President of Global Affairs Meta Nick Clegg in a blog post on Wednesday. Meta, on January 7, 2021, suspended Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts for two years following his praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
UN chief calls for data-driven fight against terrorism
"Data drives every aspect of economic, business and social life," he said in remarks to a meeting of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact, Xinhua news agency reported. "Combined with a lawless cyberspace, data also fuels the increasingly intertwined world of terror and crime," Guterres added.
Shirin Sharmin likely to become Bangladesh's first woman President
Top Awami League sources told IANS that the ruling party has decided to field Chowdhury despite some factions pitching for senior party leaders like Matiya Chowdhury and Amir Hossain Amu. Some suggestions about party general secretary and roads-bridges minister Obaidul Quader as a likely candidate for President was negated by most in the Presidium and Central Executive Committee because Quader has recovered from his physical maladies and is seen as a tough old-school Awami League organiser.
US sending 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine: Biden
Addressing reporters at the White House on Wednesday, Biden said the decision to send the tanks came after his conversation earlier in the day "with our NATO Allies -- German Chancellor (Olaf) Scholz, French President (Emmanuel) Macron, UK Prime Minister (Rishi) Sunak, and the Italian Prime Minister (Giorgia) Meloni -- to continue our close coordination in our full support of Ukraine".
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