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Rejected Imran's proposal on Pak Army Chief appointment, claims Shehbaz Sharif
Talking to vloggers, the prime minister said that the PTI chairman offered talks with the government a month ago through a mutual businessman friend to resolve two issues, one of which was the appointment of the army chief, The Express Tribune reported. "Imran Khan offered [to conduct] negotiations," Prime Minister Shehbaz told vloggers. "The first matter was the army chief's appointment and the second was holding early elections," he added.
Imran Khan's absence from march fuels speculation
Earlier, the march had begun its second, but brief, leg from Shahdara with Khan continuing to hit out at two spy agency officers he has been referring to as "Dirty Harry", calling them "savage", and demanded the army chief investigate them, Dawn reported. PTI leaders Fawad Chaudhry and Punjab President Yasmin Rashid denied the party chief had left for any meeting and insisted it was a pre-decided SOP that the march would not move in the dark owing to "security reasons".
President Biden casts early vote in crucial midterm elections
After casting his vote on Saturday, he said: "This is not a referendum of the upcoming midterms. "It's a fundamental choice between two different people." The 2022 midterm elections will be held on November 8, with all 435 seats of the U.S. House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 Senate seats on the ballot, Xinhua news agency reported. Plus, 39 state and territorial gubernatorial elections, as well as numerous other state and local elections, will be contested.
Pakistani suspected of Al-Qaeda links released by US after 19-year detention
Saifullah Paracha, 75, spent 18 years in the notorious Guantanamo detention centre operated by the US on its military base in the island of Cuba, and a year before that in the Bagram US military prison in Afghanistan after his capture in Thailand in 2003. He was not formally charged with a crime in a court or tried by a military commission like some of the others detained at Guantanamo Bay.
Covid virus 'more likely than not, result of a research-related incident': US report
Vanity Fair, in partnership with ProPublica, scanned through hundreds of pages of the Senate researchers' findings and 236-page analysis, and has now published a detailed report. Commissioned by Senator Richard Burr (Republican, North Carolina), a nine-person team, including Toy Reid who is China specialist for the Rand Corporation, "examined voluminous evidence, most of it open source but some classified, and weighed the major credible theories for how the novel coronavirus first made the leap to humans".
Itaewon, site of deadly stampede, known for hip nightlife, chic restaurants
"We grieve with the people of South Korea and send our best wishes for a quick recovery to all those who were injured," US President Joe Biden said in a statement on Sunday. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in a tweet, "All our thoughts are with those currently responding and all South Koreans at this very distressing time."
151 killed, 82 injured in Halloween stampede in Seoul's Itaewon
The deadliest stampede in South Korea's history happened on Saturday night in a narrow downhill alley near Hamilton Hotel in the famous nightlife district after tens of thousands of people visited the area for Halloween, Yonhap news agency reported. As of 9 a.m. Sunday, a total of 151 people, including 19 foreigners, have been killed and 82 others injured, 19 of them seriously, according to Choi Seong-beom.
59 killed, 150 injured in stampede at Halloween parties in Seoul
A total of 46 people were confirmed dead at the scene, and the remaining 13 were pronounced dead after they were sent to hospitals, officials said, Yonhap news agency reported. Choi Seong-beom, head of the fire department in Yongsan, which includes Itaewon, told reporters there were a large number of casualties during Halloween festivities.
45% Americans want US to become a 'Christian Nation'
"Overall, six in 10 US adults - including nearly seven in 10 Christians - say they believe the founders 'originally intended' for the US to be a Christian nation," the Pew survey report said, adding, "And 45 per cent of US adults - including about six in 10 Christians - say they think the country ashould be a Christian nation. A third say the US 'is now' a Christian nation."
Users will soon be able to pick a Twitter version they like better: Elon Musk
"Being able to select which version of Twitter you want is probably better, much as it would be for a movie maturity rating," he tweeted. Elon Musk added: "The rating of the tweet itself could be self-selected, then modified by user feedback". The world's richest man also said that "comedy is now legal on Twitter".
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