Day: July 27, 2021

Valea Trestieni, Moldova, July 26 (AFP/APP): Young couples and families pose for glamour shots as the sun lowers over Alexei Cazac’s sprawling field of lavender outside the capital of Moldova. “Once, in the first year the lavender was blooming, we came and the entire field was just filled with people, ” the 40-year-old farmer tells […]

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday announced a decision in a service matter and stated that the court was supposed to interpret the law and apply it in letter and spirit and it could not go beyond the law as courts lack jurisdiction to provide remedies which were otherwise not in the law or the […]

Tunis, July 26 (AFP/APP): Tunisia was plunged deeper into crisis as President Kais Saied suspended parliament and dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi late Sunday, prompting the country’s biggest political party to decry a “coup d’etat”. The move — a decade on from Tunisia’s 2011 revolution, held up as the sole success story of the Arab […]

Athens, July 26 (AFP/APP): Greece will open Covid-19 vaccinations to youngsters aged 12-15 in August, Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias told local television on Monday. Vaccination for this group has been approved and will be optional, he said. The programme is expected to start from Friday. Maria Theodoridou, president of the country’s vaccination committee, stressed that […]

Beirut, July 26 (AFP/APP): Lebanon was to hold talks Monday to designate a new premier who will make the third attempt within a year to form a government amid deepening political and economic turmoil. The country has been without a fully functioning government since then-prime minister Hassan Diab resigned in the wake of the Beirut […]

Paris, July 26 (AFP/APP): France’s parliament voted to make vaccine passports a key part of daily life in the battle against Covid-19 on Sunday, after a compromise between lawmakers from the upper and lower houses. The breakthrough in talks came a day after France was again shaken by protests against the rules that saw over […]

Rome, Italy, July 26 (AFP/APP): A three-day meeting of agriculture ministers, policy makers and others began Monday in Rome, ahead of a September UN summit intended to improve the world’s food systems amid rising hunger. Even before the emergence of the coronavirus, the United Nations acknowledged the world would not meet a goal of eliminating […]

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan Affairs Ali Amin Khan Gandapur on Monday said the people of Kashmir have buried the outdated political system in general elections of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. He expressed his gratitude to the people of Kashmir for showing complete confidence in the leadership of Prime Minister Imran khan in […]