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South Africa came within 32 runs of winning the first Test, while Pakistan needed just two wickets to succeed as the competition headed to a thrilling finish on the fourth day at Centurion on Sunday. Mohammad Abbas took Pakistan to the brink of an extraordinary victory by taking four wickets in a marathon spell of…
At least 167 people were killed when a plane landed upside down and skidded off the runway, bursting into a fireball when it crashed into a wall at South Korea’s Muan International Airport on Sunday, the national fire agency said. Jeju Air Flight 7C2216, arriving from the Thai capital Bangkok with 181 people on board,…
At least 127 people were killed when a plane landed upside down and skidded off the runway, bursting into a fireball when it crashed into a wall at South Korea’s Muan International Airport on Sunday, the national fire agency said. Jeju Air Flight 7C2216, arriving from the Thai capital Bangkok with 181 people on board,…
At least 124 people were killed when a plane landed without wheels, skidded off the runway and burst into a fireball as it crashed into a wall at South Korea’s Muan International Airport on Sunday, the national fire agency said. Jeju Air flight 7C2216, arriving from Bangkok, the Thai capital, with 181 people on board,…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday said over-billing by power distribution companies (Discos) was unacceptable and ordered that installation of smart meters be completed as soon as possible to ensure transparency. In February, a four-member independent inquiry committee on ‘Abject Failure – Illegal Overbilling’ confirmed allegations of overcharging made by the National Electric Power Regulatory…
Iran, preparing for a possible reimposition of incoming US President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” policy, said on Saturday that 2025 would be an important year for its nuclear issue. In 2018, Trump reneged on a deal reached by his predecessor Barack Obama in 2015 in which Iran agreed to curb uranium enrichment, which can produce…
A nervous South Africa fell to 27-3 when bad light closed play early on a rain-delayed third day, still 121 runs away from victory in the first Test against Pakistan in Centurion. The home team is chasing a modest target of 148 after bowling out Pakistan for 237. However, Pakistan kept their own hopes of…
American billionaire Elon Musk endorsed the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in an opinion piece for the German newspaper Sonntag World newspaper published online on Saturday, prompting the comment’s editor to resign in protest. In the commentary, published in German by media group Axel Springer’s flagship newspaper, Musk expanded on his post on social media…
More than 112,000 Syrians forcibly disappeared under the Baath regime remain missing, and evidence suggests many of them died in detention, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) reported. The extent of torture and extrajudicial executions in Syrian prisons has increasingly been revealed following the collapse of the 61-year-old Baath Party regime on December 8….
Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to the president of Azerbaijan on Saturday for a “tragic incident” in Russian airspace involving an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane that crashed after air defenses were used against drones. Ukrainians. Flight J2-8243 crashed on Wednesday in a fireball near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from southern Russia,…