Section: Pakistan Today (Pakistan)
A case for Pakistan’s ‘City Liveability Index’
Karachi is like Damascus. And without a civil war! The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) recently launched, ‘The Global Liveability Index 2019′. According to the Report the Index assesses, ‘which locations around the world provide the best or the worst living conditions’. Hence, the index covers 140 cities around the world, which are...
France, Portugal back on track, England cruise in Euro 2020 qualifiers
PARIS: France and Portugal got their Euro 2020 qualification campaigns back on track with impressive wins over Balkan pair Albania and Serbia that boosted the world and European champions chances of making next summer’s tournament. France moved back top of Group H with a 4-1 thumping of Albania thanks to a Kingsley Coman’s first...
Russians go to polls after summer of protests
Russians voted Sunday in local elections after weeks of opposition protests that led to the biggest police crackdown on dissent in nearly a decade. The elections take place a day after after Moscow and Kiev carried out a long-awaited swap of 70 prisoners, a deal hailed as a first step towards ending five years of conflict after Moscow’s...
Russia, Ukraine swap prisoners in landmark exchange
KYIV: Russia and Ukraine carried out a long-awaited swap of 70 prisoners on Saturday, in a deal hailed by President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “first step” towards ending their conflict. Planes carrying 35 prisoners from each side landed simultaneously in Moscow and Kiev, where relatives waiting at the airport broke into applause. “We have taken the...
Buses exit Moscow jail amid expectations of Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap
MOSCOW: Two buses with tinted windows and a police escort left a Moscow jail on Saturday morning carrying an undisclosed number of people as a major prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine appeared to begin, a Reuters witness and state TV said. Expectations of the swap, described as imminent by the two countries’ leaders in recent...
One more Congo case surfaces in city
KARACHI: One more Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) case surfaced in Karachi on Wednesday, taking the number of reported cases to 31 since the 1st January 2019. A 15-year Muhammad Sharif was brought to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) one day ago, where he was diagnosed as Congo patient, confirmed Executive Director, JPMC, Dr...
‘Best work in the world’: Serena reflects on 20 years at the top
PALM BEACH: Serena Williams said tennis had “come a really long way” as she moved to within a victory of a 10th US Open final Tuesday, 20 years after winning her first Grand Slam title in New York. Williams, who turns 38 later this month, charged into the last four at Flushing Meadows with a 6-1, 6-0 thrashing of China’s Wang Qiang that...
Zelensky slams Nord Stream 2 as Ukraine seeks US gas
KYIV: Ukraine’s president on Saturday slammed the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline set to send Russian gas to Germany as a “threat” to Europe and welcomed moves by Kiev to tap into US gas supplies. Volodymyr Zelensky made the comments beside Poland’s President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw, where he was due to attend Sunday ceremonies...
Germany asks Polish forgiveness 80 years after WWII outbreak
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday asked Poland’s forgiveness for history’s bloodiest conflict during a ceremony in the Polish city of Wielun, where the first World War II bombs fell 80 years ago. “I bow my head before the victims of the attack on Wielun. I bow my head before the Polish victims of Germany’s...
WWII: A memory battleground on the 80th anniversary
WARSAW: Commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II in Poland this weekend come as the war has become a messy battleground of memory. In Poland and across Eastern Europe, many feel that their people’s suffering has never been adequately recognized, or that they have been unfairly tarnished for their behavior at...
