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Singapore former minister sentenced to 12 months in prison in rare graft trial

03 Oct 2024

A Singaporean former minister was sentenced on Thursday to 12 months in prison for obstruction of justice and accepting illegal gifts in the city-state's first political graft trial for...

Indian court denies opposition leader Rahul Gandhi's appeal to stay defamation conviction

20 Apr 2023

A court in India's western state of Gujarat on Thursday rejected Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's petition seeking a stay of conviction in a defamation case, fuelling doubts over whether he...

Sudanese paramilitary claims control of presidential palace and Khartoum airport

15 Apr 2023

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said they had taken control of the presidential palace, the residence of the army chief and Khartoum international airport on Saturday in an apparent...

Court acquits Pakistan interior minister in drug smuggling case

10 Dec 2022

Tariq Butt, Correspondent A special court in Lahore on Saturday acquitted Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah in a narcotics case filed against him during the tenure of the Pakistan...

VIDEO: Attempt to kill Argentina’s VP Cristina Kirchner fails when handgun misfires in a crowd

02 Sep 2022

A man tried to kill Argentina's politically powerful Vice President Cristina Kirchner outside her home, but the handgun misfired, the country's president said. The man was quickly overpowered...

Fighting in Iraqi capital leaves 30 dead after Sadr quits politics

30 Aug 2022

Gulf Today Report Fighting between rival Iraqi forces raged for a second day on Tuesday with rocket fire echoing from Baghdad's Green Zone where 30 supporters of powerful Shiite...

Ranil sworn in as acting president; Rajapaksa brothers barred from leaving Sri Lanka

15 Jul 2022

Sri Lanka's parliament accepted the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday after he fled the country, paving the way for lawmakers to start repairing the island's shattered politics and...

VIDEO: Police arrested PTI’s former rights minister Shireen in Islamabad: Daughter

21 May 2022

Tariq Butt, Correspondent / AP Pakistan's former human rights minister Shireen Mazari was arrested on Saturday in the capital over a decades-old land grabbing allegation, her daughter and another former...

Sri Lankan prime minister resigns, nationwide curfew imposed after deadly clashes

09 May 2022

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned on Monday to make way for a unity government to try to find a way out of the country's worst economic crisis in...

Pakistan PM Imran ‘thanks’ opposition for boosting his party’s popularity

26 Mar 2022

Tariq Butt / IANS Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has “thanked” the opposition bigwigs — Shahbaz Sharif, Asif Zardari and Maulana Fazlur Rehman — for moving a no-confidence motion against...

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