Health officials say they don’t know of any people who have caught the bird flu in the US, and the disease doesn’t present an immediate public health concern. The virus can spread from infected birds to people, but such infections are rare and haven’t led to sustained outbreaks among humans...
After six years, Waseem was freed on a legal technicality that allows a victim’s mother to pardon the crime. The case was considered the most high-profile “honour killing” of recent years, where women are murdered by male relatives for purportedly bringing “shame” to the reputation of a...
Shehbaz Sharif, the opposition leader in the National Assembly or lower house of the parliament, proposed the no-confidence motion against Khan on Monday. “The prime minister ceases to hold his office after he has lost the confidence of this house,” Sharif said, reading from the no-confidence...
Azeem Khan, another police official, confirmed the details.Known as madrassas, religious schools have long served as vital lifelines for millions of impoverished children in Pakistan, where social services are chronically underfunded. But critics say students can be “brainwashed by hardline cle...
The latest incident took place on Tuesday in Dera Ismail Khan in the country’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan. Police said two students and a teacher ambushed Safoora Bibi at the main gate of the school and attacked her with a knife and stick. “She died afte...
This means that industrial production gets lost, that supply chains get lost,” Leonhard Birnbaum, chief executive of German energy group E.ON, told public broadcaster ARD. “We are certainly talking about very heavy damages.” Private households will have priority over industry, while hospita...
Habeck said on Wednesday Germany’s gas storage is currently filled to about 25 percent capacity. “The question how long the gas will last basically depends on several factors consumption and weather,” he said. “If there’s a lot of heating, then the storage facilities will be emptied....
March 31 under which the “unfriendly countries” would pay for gas in roubles. Most now pay in euros or United States dollars. Moscow is expected to unveil new rules for gas payments on Thursday. Habeck has rejected Russia’s gas-for-roubles demand, saying contracts would be honoured under cu...
