World News in Brief: Rights chief calls for calm in Comoros, DR Congo update, northern Ethiopia beset by ‘multiple crises’

World News in Brief: Rights chief calls for calm in Comoros, DR Congo update, northern Ethiopia beset by ‘multiple crises’

Incumbent President of the island archipelago off the east African coast, Azali Assoumani, was re-elected for a fourth term.   However, the turnout was reportedly only 16 per cent and opposition parties denounced the elections as “fraudulent”, according to media reports. In a statement released by his office (OHCHR) on Wednesday, Volker Türk called on…

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Gaza crisis: UN chief calls for two-State solution, ‘once and for all’

Gaza crisis: UN chief calls for two-State solution, ‘once and for all’

Speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the UN chief condemned the “barbaric” Hamas-led attacks on 7 October in which approximately 1,200 people were butchered in southern Israel and some 250 taken as hostages. And amid reports of ongoing heavy Israeli bombardment which has left tens of thousands of civilians dead and…

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Matriculation and Intermediate Results;  The future of Karachi's children was deliberately darkened, Farooq Sattar

Matriculation and Intermediate Results; The future of Karachi’s children was deliberately darkened, Farooq Sattar

Karachi: Senior Deputy Convener of MQM Pakistan Dr. Farooq Sattar has said that the future of the children of Karachi has been deliberately darkened in the matriculation and intermediate results. Speaking to the media at Pakistan House, Farooq Sattar said that this is not the party’s problem, it is the country’s problem that after the…

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Pakistan's decision to recall its ambassador from Iran, the Iranian ambassador was also asked to go back

Pakistan’s decision to recall its ambassador from Iran, the Iranian ambassador was also asked to go back

Islamabad: Pakistan recalled its ambassador over the Iran incident. The spokesperson of the Foreign Office has said in a news briefing that Pakistan has recalled its ambassador in response to the Iran incident, while Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan, who is currently in Iran, has been told not to come to Pakistan. Also read this news:…

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Lucky Marwat;  The accused who killed 11 people over a relationship dispute was arrested

Lucky Marwat; The accused who killed 11 people over a relationship dispute was arrested

The killer tried to escape to Punjab after the incident (Photo: Screen grab). Lucky Marwat: The accused who killed 11 people over a relationship dispute was arrested. According to the police, the brutal suspect who escaped after killing 11 people over a relationship dispute last week was arrested. The accused brutally shot and killed eleven…

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