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Record early voting in US midterms as 41mn exercising their franchise
The United States Election Project said 40,114,753 early votes have been cast across the country as of Tuesday afternoon including 18,325,512 in-person votes and 21,789,241 that had been sent in. In 2018, about 39.1 million people voted early, media reports said.
PM Shehbaz writes to Chief Justice seeking judicial probe into attack on Imran
The letter states that after the attack on Imran Khan, violent protests have erupted across the country putting the lives of citizens at risk, Dawn reported. It highlighted that the FIR of the incident has still not been registered, the crime scene has not been secured and the container on which the shots were fired has not been taken into custody for forensic analysis.
Elite Iranian security forces threaten UK-based journalists
Parent company Volant Media said the Metropolitan Police had notified the pair of a recent increase in "credible" threats from Iranian security forces, BBC reported. It denounced the "escalation of a state-sponsored campaign to intimidate Iranian journalists working abroad". Iranian authorities have not commented yet.
Imran Khan wants FIR as per his demand, says Pakistan's Interior Minister
"He [Imran] cannot get an FIR registered and wants to bring about a revolution," Rana Sanaullah said, Express Tribune reported. He said there "must be some sort of evidence" for an FIR to be registered and if one is to go by the PTI's demands, someone can even register a case against the Chief Justice, the report said.
Australia amidst new Covid wave: Chief Medical Officer
Kelly urged Australians to take additional precautions against Covid-19 infection, including wearing masks, staying at home if experiencing symptoms and staying up to date on vaccinations, reports Xinhua news agency.In a statement, the CMO said the government was closely monitoring the spread of Omicron variants XBB and BQ.1.
WATCH | Sunak rushed out of stage at COP27: Report
A video of the incident on Monday was captured by Leo Hickman, the director/editor of UK climate change website, Carbon Brief, reports the London World news outlet. Hickman shared the video on Twitter in which he mentioned that "UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has just arrived at launch of the Forests and Climate Leaders' Partnership at COP27".
Pakistan Minister challenges Imran to prove he received 4 bullet wounds
Khan was shot at and injured on November 3 when a suspect, standing in front of the container carrying the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief and senior party leaders, showered a volley of bullets with an automatic pistol, The Express Tribune reported. One person died in the incident, while several PTI leaders were injured.
North Korea denies exporting weapons to Russia
In a statement issued by the vice director of the Military Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of National Defence, Pyongyang warned Washington against spreading such a "plot-breeding story", reports Yonhap News Agency. "We regard such moves of the US as part of its hostile attempt to tarnish the image of the DPRK in the international arena by invoking the illegal 'sanctions resolution' of the UN Security Council against the DPRK," he said, referring to the North by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
'Despite war, US-Russia communication channels remain open'
Addressing an event in New York on Monday, the NSA said that although it was "in the interests" of the US to maintain contact with the Kremlin, but officials are "clear-eyed about who we are dealing with", the BBC reported.
Climate, energy security go hand-in-hand: Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak made the remarks on Monday while addressing the 27th session of the Conference of Parties (COP27) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Egypt's coastal city of Sharm El-Sheikh. "Climate security goes hand in hand with energy security. (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's abhorrent war in Ukraine and rising energy prices across the world are not a reason to go slow on climate change... They are a reason to act faster," he said.
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