NEW DELHI: Pakistan‘s new Cabinet took oath on Monday at President Asif Ali Zardari’s House. President Zardari administered the oath to the newly formed 19-member Cabinet.Ishaq Dar, Khawaja Asif, Mohsin Naqvi, Ahsan Iqbal, Shaza Fatima, Jam Kamal, and Aleem Khan, among others, were notable figures who took the oath.According toContinue Reading
BEIJING: China’s parliament on Monday revised a law to effectively grant the Communist Party more executive control over China’s cabinet, the State Council, after cancelling the premier’s post-parliament news conference for the first time in three decades.The amended State Council Organic Law passed by 2,883 delegate votes, with eight opposingContinue Reading
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron and his new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal worked on Wednesday to pull together a cabinet, a day after Macron appointed the 34-year-old media-savvy ally to breathe new life into his second mandate.Attal has promised to be bold and fast to help the middle class weatherContinue Reading
Cold medications containing pseudoephedrine will again be sold over-the-counter in New Zealand, as the country’s newly formed government overturns the ban as part of “long overdue” health reforms. New Zealand’s incoming conservative Prime Minister announced on Thursday that an agreement to form a three-party coalition government had been reached, 40Continue Reading
A 99-year lease on the Port of Darwin held by a Chinese company won’t be scrapped after a federal government review found it was “not necessary” to do so. The review’s findings come just weeks before Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is expected to travel to Beijing to meet with hisContinue Reading
North Korea has enshrined its status as a nuclear power in its constitution, with leader Kim Jong-un calling for more modern atomic weapons to counter the threat from the United States. Despite international sanctions over its nuclear weapons programme, North Korea has conducted a record number of missile tests thisContinue Reading
There has been scathing reaction following the sensational news that Victoria’s Premier Dan Andrews was resigning from the post he has held for nine years. The 48th Premier of Victoria announced his decision at a snap press conference today describing the job as the “honour and privilege of my life”.Continue Reading
A short plane ride from here, a city once crushed beneath the weight of skyrocketing rents and eye-watering property prices has found a solution to the type of housing crisis plaguing Australia’s major cities. While bold and quite controversial, the fix was relatively simple, quickly implemented and highly effective, dramaticallyContinue Reading
TOKYO: Torrential rain over Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu triggered floods and landslides that left up to six people dead and rescuers searching for three missing, officials said on Tuesday.The Japan Meteorological Agency downgraded the special warnings for heavy rains, issued on Monday for northern parts of the island, toContinue Reading
The heartbreaking letters penned by a man who lost his family in the country’s worst mass shooting in modern history have been revealed for the first time. Walter Mikac’s correspondence with then-Prime Minister John Howard sparked one of the country’s biggest gun reforms just days after Martin Bryant’s heinous actContinue Reading