Friday, April 28, 2023

Cash-strapped Pakistan urges US to restore military financing, sales April 28, 2023 at 05:43PM

Addressing the seminar in Washington, Pakistan's envoy to US Masood Khan, on Thursday said, "It is important that the US restores, for Pakistan, Foreign Military Financing and Foreign Military Sales, suspended by the previous administration." Since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the US-Pakistan relationship has been stuck in a prolonged period of uncertainty.

Appeals court rejects Trump effort to block Pence testimony April 27, 2023 at 01:28AM

The US appeals court denied a request by Donald Trump's lawyers to block former vice president Mike Pence from testifying in front of a grand jury investigating claims of attempts to overturn the 2020 Presidential Election result. The investigation has been running for several months, focusing initially on the events leading up to the 6 January 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol, which Mike Pence attended.

'My daughter made her husband PM': Sunak's mother-in-law April 28, 2023 at 12:44AM

Rishi Sunak's mother-in-law, Sudha Murty, has claimed in a video circulating online that because of her daughter, Rishi Sunak became the youngest prime minister of UK. In the video, Sudha can be heard saying: "I made my husband a businessman. My daughter made her husband prime minister of the UK."

US judge rules against Google, allows antitrust case to proceed April 28, 2023 at 06:10AM

A United States federal judge on Friday rejected a motion from Google to toss out the government's antirust case against it. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled the lawsuit alleging Google wields monopolistic power in the world of online advertising can proceed in its entirety.