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Imran Khan meets US Senators in Islamabad, discusses evolving situation
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 11 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan met a four-member delegation of the US Senate in Islamabad and discussed the evolving situation in Afghanistan.
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Instagram says it's bringing back chronological feed
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 9 (ANI): Instagram head Adam Mosseri, during a hearing before a Senate subcommittee on Wednesday, said that the company is working on a version of its feed that would show users' posts in chronological order, unlike its current ranking algorithm that sorts posts bas
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US House passes USD 768 Billion defense spending bill, sends to Senate for
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 8 (ANI/Sputnik): The US House of Representatives passed an updated version of the USD 768 billion defence spending bill for 2022, sending it to the Senate for consideration.
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Pakistan struggles to pay Chinese debts amid ballooning external payments
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 4 (ANI): Beijing's debts are squeezing Pakistan's pinched finances as external payments are set to balloon to USD 14 billion at the end of this financial year and nearly half is owed to Chinese commercial banks, largely for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
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US senate passes bill to avert government shutdown
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 3 (ANI): The US Senate has passed a stopgap spending bill to fund the federal government into next year, that will avoid a short-term shutdown.
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US house passes legislation funding government through February 18 to avoi
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 3 (ANI/Sputnik): The US House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution (CR) on Thursday that will fund the government through February 18 and avoid a government shutdown if their Senate counterparts pass the CR as well by Friday at midnight.
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Pakistan senate body concerned over slow progress on CPEC amid protest in
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 30 (ANI): Amid ongoing protests in Gwadar against China's multi-billion belt and road project, Pakistan's Senate Standing Committee on Planning and Development has expressed concern over the slow progress on projects related to the China-Pakistan Economic Corri
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Instagram chief to testify in US Congress on harm to youth from platform
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 25 (ANI/Sputnik): The CEO of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, will appear before the US Senate, the upper chamber of the Congress, in the second week of December for the first time and testify regarding reports on the negative influence of the social network on teenagers, t
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Polish Senate Speaker says received parcel with threats, explosives
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Warsaw [Poland], November 21 (ANI/Sputnik): A parcel with death threats and explosives has been mailed to the speaker of Poland's upper house, Tomasz Grodzki, he said on Saturday.
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US Senator introduces measure to trigger sanctions if Russia escalates Ukr
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 20 (ANI/Sputnik): US Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez introduced a measure this week that would trigger a broad range of sanctions against the Russian government if it engages in or supports a significant escalation of hostilities in or against Ukra
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US House approves Biden's USD 1.75 trillion social, climate spending bill
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 19 (ANI/Sputnik): The US House of Representatives on Friday approved President Joe Biden's USD 1.75 trillion social safety net and climate spending package, sending the legislation to the Senate for consideration.
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US Senate approves Congressional Gold medals for troops killed at Kabul Ai
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 19 (ANI): The US Senate has unanimously approved to award Congressional Gold medals for the 11 Marines, a soldier, and a navy corpsman killed in an outside bomb explosion in Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai International Airport in August, a media report said.
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