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UK’s Johnson loses majority ahead of Brexit parliament showdown – World

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost his active majority in parliament on Tuesday with the dramatic defection of a member of the party before a confrontation with parliamentarians on Brexit that could lead to an early general election. In a heated parliamentary session, Johnson condemned a plan by lawmakers to block his Brexit strategy as […]

Pakistan

Zarif reaffirms Iran’s support for Kashmiris as Pakistan continues diplomatic push to highlight issue – Pakistan

As part of the government's drive to highlight the suffering of the Kashmir people, who have been enduring a strict confinement in occupied Kashmir since the Indian government took away their special autonomy last month, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, He called his Iranian, Turkish and Bangladesh counterparts on Tuesday to discuss the situation in

World

Protests after Indian reporter probed over school meal expose – World

The authorities' attempt to accuse an Indian journalist who exposed the poor quality of the meals served at a government school triggered protests on Tuesday for fear that the press freedom in the country would worsen. Pawan Jaiswal made national headlines after reporting that poor elementary students in a district in the state of Uttar

Foreign

Hong Kong leader insists she will stay on

headquarters: A former Hong Kong leader insisted that he did not want to step down after an audio recording on Tuesday in southern China said he wanted to be nervous for more than three months. Hong Kong has endured dozens of violent democratic demonstrations triggered by Senator Carrie Lam's push for legislation to allow delivery

Prism

Amrita Pritam at 100: Political, progressive and a true pioneer – Prism

Full of spring, the writer adorned and refined our lives with her prose and poetry throughout the twentieth century. ‘There was a pain I consume in silence Like a cigarette There are some poems I've shaken like ashes Of the cigarette Amrita Pritam, who was born 100 years ago in Gujranwala (now in present-day Pakistan)

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Pound tumbles to two-and-half-year low on Brexit uncertainty – Business

The pound plummeted against the dollar and the euro on Tuesday after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson threatened to call early elections to boost Brexit, and analysts warned that the currency could fall further. Johnson's warning that he will call a poll on October 14 if rebel lawmakers in his conservative party vote to force

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