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Pakistan records 6,808 new COVID-19 cases, second-highest daily case count
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 20 (ANI): Pakistan recorded 6,808 new COVID-19 cases, the second-highest daily case count since the coronavirus pandemic started in 2020, local media reported on Thursday.
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Pakistani man gets 7-year sentence for assaulting 16 women in Crete
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Athens [Greece], January 20 (ANI): A 32-year-old Pakistani man was sentenced to seven years in prison for a series of violent attacks on women in Crete, according to local media reports.
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Two US marines killed, 17 injured in car accident in north Carolina: Repor
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 20 (ANI/Sputnik): At least two US marines were killed and 17 others were injured in a rollover accident near the marine corps base camp Lejeune in the city of Jacksonville in North Carolina, local media reported on Thursday.
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'Situation in Afghanistan critical as frozen assets may lead to 1.5 millio
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 20 (ANI): Afghan industrialists have urged the international community to unfreeze Afghan funds as if immediate financial help is not provided to the country then it will lead to the closure of factories making 1.5 million people unemployed in the troubled countr
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Pakistan: 15 officials removed after Murree tragedy
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 20 (ANI): Fifteen officials have been removed from their positions in line with recommendations of the inquiry committee probing the Murree snowfall tragedy, local media has reported.
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Chinese envoy meets Pakistan's COAS Bajwa amid rising security concerns ne
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Rawalpindi [Pakistan], January 19 (ANI): Nong Rong, China's Ambassador to Pakistan, called on the country's Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi on Wednesday and discussed regional security matters, reported local media.
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As humanitarian challenges grip Afghanistan, EU launhches projects to addr
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 19 (ANI): The European Union has launched projects worth USD 304 million that focus on maintaining education, sustaining livelihoods, and protecting public health in Afghanistan to address the major humanitarian crisis in the country, reported local media.
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Pakistan Opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif tests positive for COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 19 (ANI): Shahbaz Sharif, Pakistan's leader of Opposition in the National Assembly, has tested positive for the COVID-19 again as last year in June he had been infected with the virus, reported local media.
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Five killed in fire at Spanish retirement home
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Madrid [Spain], January 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Five people were killed and several injured in a fire at a retirement home over the night to Wednesday in the city of Valencia, eastern Spain, local media cited emergency services as saying.
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Pakistan: Islamabad on alert after gunmen shot three policemen
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 19 (ANI): Following the overnight gun attack on police in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, the city was put on alert after a warning issued by Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad of similar terror incidents, local media reported on Wednesday.
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Pak: Gas leakage kills Chinese national, renders dozens unconscious
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], January 18 (ANI): A Chinese man has died and around a dozen others have become unconscious by poisonous gas in a chemical factory in the Multan city of Pakistan's Punjab province, local media reported on Tuesday.
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Five injured after blast in Pakistan's Balochistan
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], January 18 (ANI): At least five people were injured in a blast near a railway track in the Mashkaf area of Balochistan's Bolan district on Tuesday, local media reported citing a senior official of Pakistan Railways.
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