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The government of Brazil has announced an agreement to acknowledge its responsibility in the murder of Vladimir Herzog, a journalist and dissident who was killed during the country’s dictatorship period. On Thursday, the government agreed to a statement of liability and a compensation package for Herzog’s family, amounting to 3 million Brazilian reais, or $544,800. The settlement also affirmed the decision of a federal court earlier this year to grant Herzog’s widow, Clarice Herzog, retroactive payments of a pension she should have received after her husband’s death, amounting to about $6,000 per month. In a statement recorded by The Associated…
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People commuting during heavy rain on June 25, 2023. — APP Over 200 power feeders trip as heavy rains sweep Karachi.Multiple areas, including Clifton, Malir, Gulshan, face hours-long outages.Karachi mayor, provincial officials begin emergency inspections post-rain. KARACHI: A powerful thunderstorm brought both respite from the heat and disruption to daily life across Karachi late on Thursday, as more than 200 power feeders tripped, plunging large parts of the city into darkness.According to reports, several areas of the port city, including Surjani Town, Malir, North Karachi, I I Chundrigar Road, Gulshan-e-Hadeed, and Gadap, witnessed heavy downpours accompanied by lightning and thunder. Rain…
Chinese and US flags flutter outside the building of an American company in Beijing, China, January 21, 2021. — ReutersWASHINGTON: The United States and China have reached an understanding to speed up rare earth exports to the US, according to an official of the White House.The official said that both sides had agreed on a trade framework during recent talks, aiming to ease tensions and improve cooperation on key materials. After talks in Geneva in May, Washington and Beijing agreed to temporarily lower steep tit-for-tat tariffs on each other’s products. China also committed to easing some non-tariff countermeasures, but US officials…
An outcrop of meta gabbroic rocks from the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada, that are 4.16 billion years old, in this photograph released on June 26, 2025. A knife is pictured for scale. —ReutersTwo test methods put the rocks at 4.16 billion years old.Volcanic rocks date to primordial Earth’s Hadean aeon.Rocks are surviving fragments of Earth’s oldest crust. Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada’s northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, resides a belt of volcanic rock that displays a blend of dark and light green colours, with flecks of pink and…
Ryan Reynolds is talking about the background noise he is surrounded by.The actor and director revealed he silenced headlines and hearsay about wife Blake Lively’s legal matter with Justin Baldoni. In his profile for the TIME100 Companiesissue, Reynolds said: “I can read something that says, ‘He should be drawn and quartered.’ I could read something that says I should win a Nobel Prize. Both are meaningless.”The 48-year-old added: “None of us are comprised of our best moments. None of us are defined by our worst moments. We are something in the middle.” Reynolds continued: “Accessibility and accountability are a big part…
UN humanitarian agency stresses need for fuel, medical supplies and water in Palestinian territory besieged by Israel.The United Nations humanitarian agency (OCHA) has warned that preventable diseases in Gaza are on the rise and killing civilians due to the lack of desperately needed medicine and clean water. OCHA in a statement on Thursday said that in the past two weeks, “more than 19,000 cases of acute watery diarrhoea have been recorded, alongside over 200 cases each of acute jaundice syndrome and bloody diarrhoea “. “These outbreaks are directly linked to the lack of clean water and sanitation in Gaza, underscoring…
The scholar Sheikh Abdullah bin Al -Sheikh Al -Mahfouz bin Baih, Chairman of the Emirates Forensic Fatwa Council said: “I am pleased
Representational image of a United States visa. — ReutersUS administration resumes student visa appointments.Asks applicants to adjust privacy settings.Warns incorrect info may lead to visa denial. The US consulates in Karachi and Lahore have issued new instructions requiring applicants for F, M, and J non-immigrant visa to make their social media accounts public.The move is part of a broader tightening of the US government’s visa vetting procedures.US administration on Wednesday ordered the resumption of student visa appointments but will significantly tighten its social media vetting in a bid to identify any applicants who may be hostile towards the United States,…
Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun (centre) and his counterparts pose for a group photo before the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers’ Meeting in Qingdao, Shandong province, China June 26, 2025. — ReutersBeijing presents SCO as counterweight to world in “chaos, instability”Defence chiefs of Pakistan, Belarus, and elsewhere attend meeting.”Unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise,” says Dong Jun.China hosted defence ministers from Iran and Russia for a meeting in its eastern seaside city of Qingdao on Thursday against the backdrop of war in the Middle East and a summit of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) countries in Europe that agreed…