Section: The Frontier Post (Pakistan)
Covid-19 kills 50 more Pakistanis in last 24 hours
F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: Another 50 people died whereas 1,196 more infected by the novel coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours (Tuesday), showed the data released by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Wednesday morning. As per the latest NCOC figures, the death toll has surged to 12,708 after the addition of 50 more...
Blinken says corruption threatens security stability, economic growth of world
F.P Report WASHINGTON: Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State underlined the contemporary challenges by saying that around the world, corruption threatens security and stability, hinders economic growth, undermines democracy and human rights, destroys trust in public institutions, facilitates transnational crime, and siphons away public and...
EU set to agree sanctions over Russia, Myanmar crackdowns
Monitoring Desk Brussels (AFP) EU foreign ministers are expected Monday to approve sanctions against those behind Russia’s crackdown on Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and his supporters, as well as those responsible for the coup in Myanmar. The top diplomats from the 27-nation bloc meet in Brussels for talks that will also include a...
Biden’s attorney general nominee Garland vows to prioritize civil rights
Monitoring Desk (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s attorney general nominee Merrick Garland will tell the Senate on Monday he plans to prioritize civil rights and combat domestic terror if confirmed as the top U.S. justice official, according to remarks released on Saturday. The Justice Department’s mission to enforce the 1957 Civil...
US sanctions over Nord Stream 2 pipeline strongly opposed by GOP
Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday added a layer of sanctions to a Russian vessel and the shipowner for their work on a new gas pipeline from Russia that is strongly opposed in the U.S. and eastern Europe. But the move was immediately criticized as inadequate by senior Republican lawmakers who noted the...
Biden administration designates Russian ship as helping to build Nord Stream 2 pipeline
Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Friday identified a Russian ship and a company it believes are helping to build the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, but the entities had already been sanctioned by the Trump administration and the project’s opponents in Congress said the move would do little to halt work on it. The...
Russia and Europe: the Current Impasse and the Way Out
Dmitri Trenin Russia and the European Union need to imagine a more realistic goal for their relationship: a model of neighborliness, in which the inevitable disagreements will be managed in order to prevent disruptive conflicts and damaging collisions. Ever since the start of the U.S.-Russian confrontation in 2014, Moscow’s relations with...
Biden now has the space to pressure Putin
Eli Lake President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party spent the last four years warning that former president Donald Trump was compromised by Russia. Now the Biden administration has cut a deal with Moscow more favorable to Russia than the one the outgoing Trump team was trying to negotiate: Last month it extended for five years a major arms...
Jessica Pegula makes her way into 1st Slam quarterfinal
Monitoring Desk MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Jessica Pegula’s first victory over a Top 10 opponent earned the 25-year-old American her first trip to the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament. The 61st-ranked Pegula, whose parents own Buffalo’s NFL and NHL franchises, held on to beat No. 5 seed Elina Svitolina of Ukraine 6-4, 3-6,...
Trump acquitted, denounced in historic impeachment trial
Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was acquitted Saturday of inciting the horrific attack on the U.S. Capitol, concluding a historic impeachment trial that spared him the first-ever conviction of a current or former U.S. president but exposed the fragility of America’s democratic traditions and left a divided nation to come to...
