New York (DW): Author Salman Rushdie, who has lived under death threats due to his writing, has reportedly been attacked on stage during an event in New York. A man was arrested after allegedly rushing the stage and attacking him, according to witnesses at the event. Images shared by attendees appeared to show Rushdie being...
WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – China’s war games around Taiwan have led Biden administration officials to recalibrate their thinking on whether to scrap some tariffs or potentially impose others on Beijing, setting those options aside for now, according to sources familiar with the deliberations. President Joe Biden’s team has been wrestling for months with various...
By Dr Majid Khan Nathan Roger argues in his book Image Warfare in War on Terror that the mass media system has been shifted to a rhizomatic (grows horizontally under the ground) media system. That system relates to deterritorialized (take the control of) circulations and weaponization of images and this has resulted the paradigm shift...
TAIPEI/BEIJING, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Chinese navy ships remained active off both Taiwan’s east and west coasts on Wednesday morning, a source briefed on the matter told Reuters, as Beijing kept up military drills in protest against last week’s visit to the island by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. A furious China has extended its...
Islamabad (correspondent): Afghan citizens have been protesting in Islamabad against the US government and its allies since the fall of Kabul. Advocate Pir Fida Hussain Hashmi filed a petition at Islamabad high court seeking clarification from the authorities (Ministry of Foreign Office and Interior) on the legal position & authenticity for protesting of the Afghan...
BEIJING, Aug 7 (Reuters) – China’s export growth unexpectedly picked up speed in July, offering an encouraging boost to the economy as its struggles to recover from a COVID-induced slump, but weakening global demand could start to drag on shipments in coming months. Exports rose 18.0% in July from a year earlier, the fastest pace...
Aug 8 (Reuters) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Monday for international inspectors to be given access to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after Ukraine and Russia traded accusations over the shelling of Europe’s largest atomic plant at the weekend. “Any attack to a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing,” Guterres told a news conference...
BEIJING, Aug 8 (Reuters) – China’s defence ministry on Monday defended its shelving of military talks with the United States in protest against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei last week, warning that Washington must bear “serious consequences.” Pelosi’s visit last week infuriated China, which regards the self-ruled island as its own and responded...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s leading athlete, Arshad Nadeem, set a new record in Commonwealth Games in the early hours of Monday and won a gold medal for his country in Men’s Javelin Final by throwing 90.18 meters in his fifth attempt. Nadeem’s exceptional performance brought Pakistan’s medals tally in the ongoing games to eight. Prior to that,...
GAZA/JERUSALEM, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Israel and Palestinian militants have agreed to a truce in Gaza from Sunday evening as mediated by Cairo, sources said, after a weekend-long pounding of Palestinian targets by Israel triggered longer-range rocket attacks against its cities. An Egyptian security source said Israel had agreed to the proposal, while a Palestinian...