INTERNATIONAL,

THENEWS

Tuesday
July 28, 2026


Karachi Edition


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Far-right Australian politician
loses appeal i in racism case,

SYDNEY: ‘A popular fare right Austratian     politician failed
on Monday to overtum a racial ‘ification finding that
was handed down after she told 2 Muslim senator to go
back to Pakistan.”               ¥

Senator Pauline Harson has emenged as one of Aus-
tralia’s most popular politicians, wooing voters with calls
forstrict immigration curbs, mass deportations of “eel

Farugi, a leftleaning Greens senator, ‘said she could
not moum the “leader of a racist empire built ons on stolen
Ives, land and wealth of colonized people —

"Romania expels Russian embassy
‘employee over drones *”

BUCHAREST: Romania‘on Monday ordered a Russian
embassy employee expelled from the Nato member bor-
dering Ukraine as "a firm response” to drones repeatedly
breaching the country’s abspace. Russia denounced the
move and warmed it “will not go unanswered™s'

Romania shot down three drones on three consec-
utive days at the end of last week, with a new drone
incursion reported by the country’s defence ministry
on Monday as the war in Ukraine rages on. Romania
on Monday sammoned | Russian Arabassador Vladindr
Lipayev. AFP.

, Albania fast-tracks $302m US loan’
10 upgrade military |

TIRANA,  ‘Albania: Albania’s  parliament  ‘on  “Monday
approved a $302-million Ioan from Washington to
upgrade its military,  the! atest Ballon ration toratehet
up defence spending “°C >

~The Tmove comes weeks after Albania; a Nato mem-
ber, announced an increase to Its defence budget to 69.2
billion lek ($840 millon) in 2026, almost triplets military
spend six wars carticr, -
ve  The move was labelled a “historic agreement”  by the
government, but opposition MIPs boycotted the vote ower
allegations that the deal was rushed through without
transparency. —AFP *-"

UK TV comedy star and”
naturalist Bill Oddie dies at 85°

LONDON:  UK television personality Bill ‘Oadic, best
known for his role in the TV comedy series "The 6 Good-
ies” and presenter of nature programmes, has died aged
8, his agent said on Monday. :7 "=~ ~~     .

“Bill was a multi-talented celebrity = wildlife pre-
senter, broadcaster, comedian, writer, songwriter, mus-
cian and conservationist,” his agent David Foster; said in

aststement,
eaters never fare that | that he valued. Jnstead he
to respect          tect the env’          tL
“He taught us the wonder of i He protested, lobbied

and campaigned for if,” Foster added, hailing Oddie as
“the country’s best loved binder”. —AFP;         fee
Ukrainian strikes on Russia kill 5,
- ax. deluding child; officials
MOSCOW:  Ukraine fired hundreds of drones at Russia
early on Monday, killing five people including a child,
according to Russian officials, ~                                  3

‘The attack also set buildings ablaze, among them an
spartment block and warehouses, officials said...           .

: Ukrainian President Volodyrayr Zelensky said his
forces had struck an export terminal In the western Ros-
tov region, a3 well as oil facilities in the Yarostavi. and
‘Udmurtia regions far from the front line. AFP =

“Italian police announce seizure’
“of, 2.6 tonnes of cocaine in Atlantic

ROME:  Taly’s financial police sald on Monday that! Porta
guese counterparts had intercepted a speedboat canying
more than 2.6 tonnes of cocaine | with a street value of
Taore than $550 million. >” ’~
Four people = two Spaniards, one Albanian and one
man from Gibraltar = were arrested, itsald.        :
*"The boat was intercepted off the coast “of Lisbo
by the Portuguese maritime police,” sald the financial
police, which had conducted the Investigation, —AFP .

| UN experts urge fran to halt:
death sentences of 10 me!

GENEVA: UNexperts on Sfonday calla on ran o cancel
the death penalties given to 10 young men over antigow-
emment protests that rocked the country in January, »
~ ‘Pwelve men, aged between their late teens and early
ee were sentenced and two were executed onduly

=: Sentencing 12) people to 5 dcath in ‘one hearing in 2

closed courtroom and without clarity as to each defen-

dant’s individual responsibility violates « established fair
trial standards,” the experts said.”

Nations and men bers of working supe on (aces say
Pearances an      trary detention. But          not:
‘on behalf of the world body.    ‘AFP                  we

Shots fir fired at US consulate
in Toronto: police « nes

MONTREAL, Canada: Shots were fired early on Monday
at the US consulate in Toronto but no one was injured,
Canadian potice sald, the second shooting near the ipl
matic compound in four months, * .                       se

<x An officer guarding the consulate "heard the sound
ofa gunshot in the vicinity here where he was stationed”
at about 4:45 am, the city’s deputy police chief Frank
Barredo told reporters, adding that the consulate’s
facade was struck by a bullet.

Toronto police said a white sedan ‘with no license
plates was seen fleeing the scene. Police gave chase but
quickly discontinued because of the danger posed by the
suspect vehicle’s high speed, Barredo said. —AFP: =

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faces jail over bodies
left ‘on racks’

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United Kingdom: A Brit- uncovered and in varying | F™

ish funeral director faced states of decomposition,”
prison on Monday over a he added. «

scandal that saw bodies
left “stored on racks” and taker previously pleaded
uncremated while relatives guilty to 67 offences span-
were handed other peo- ning 12 years and affecting
pie’s ashes, sparking calls hundreds of victims.

for better regulation of the
industry.
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view, Bush said he had
ex-employee developed a cash-flow

described Robert Bush’s problem because “people]

funeral parlour as a*horror did not always pay,” and he

scene’, prosecutor Chris had debts of about £90,000. |

Paxton said at the slart of. He said he struggled
a fiveday sentencing hear- with maintaining the pay:
ing.                       we      ments due for leases, and
- “Police who searched believed there were about
his premises after a tip- 30 bodies at one site, with}
off found 31 bodies in five to six of them “recent”

@ cold storage area that and waiting tobe cremated.
should have been cremated .

stillborm baby that had been as an explanation for what
there for atmost two years. hadgoneon. . .

They also found more. Over £3 million (8: 9
than 100 sets of ashes.        million) was paid into the

“There were bodies business between March
stored on the racks on both 2017 and April 2024 with
sides of the room,” the a single cremation costing
lawyer said at Hull Crown &500 to carry out, Paxton
Court in northeast England. said. —AFP.

S Africa’s Ramaphosa
calls for African action
‘on migration.


MIDRAND,  South  Africa: address the conditions that  pledging new “Stone Cloak" said Britain was “going fir- will not back down until we
South African President Cyril drive migration in the first [Jamming technology to help ther” and was “providing new, achieve long-lasting and Just
Ramaphosa called on Bfon+  Paces  Ramaphoesa told a see  safeguard Ukraine's drones home-grown jamming tech- peace for Ulraine.”

the partiament, which] on the battleficdd 2.
ith the sheave body of the  sat meeting on the dock- drones” as both Moscow and ‘share with Kyiv information

day for African countries to. si
work together to manage
migration, as his government. African Union.
faces mounting pressure over
altacks on foreign nationals,

Ramaphosa’s appeal to
the Pan-African Parliament
follows weeks of anti-mi-
grant protests in South’
Africa, where xonophobic
activists and fringe groups
have blamed undocumented
migrants from elsewhere in
Africa for crime, unemploy+
ment and strain on public
services,

He warned that unman-
aged cross-border movement
could undermine security two months, according to an
and social order, and sail no AFP tally based on figures
country could address the
challenge alone.

public health facitities inten-
sified this year 2s xenophobic
groups demanded that they
eave the country by June 3Q,

‘elgn nationals have departed

The 48-year-old under-   he

In his first police inter-]¢;*


PORTSMOUTH,  England:  Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham and ukraine’ "s President da Zelensky

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months earlier, including a missed financial problems] here on Monday. —

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Burnham meets Zelensky,
pledges new drone
jamming technology

PORTSMOUTH, United King.  spoke by phone within hours  ‘Unaaine, shoulder to shoul
dom: British Prime Minister ofthe new prime minister lak- der, and our support remains

~ “Stone Cloakis the best of
homegrown British innova-

Andy Burnham held his first. ing office. .    :          unwavering,” Bumhamsakdin tion and proven on the front-
mecting with Ulyaininn Pres- —- Vowing to “honour every astatement. :            line, and it will be vital to pro-
ident Volodymyr Zelersky at commitment this countryhas = “Russia should be in no tecting our security in both
a UK naval base on Monday, made to Uiraine,” Bumham doubt of our resolve, and we ourcountrics,” Bumham sakL
-In a sign of Ukraine's

deepening defence ties with

Britain, Zclensky wrote on X

nology to protect Ukrainian       London announced it will that the leaders “discussed the

development of joint defense

and on board an aircraft Kyiv intensify drone and mis- on a now battlo-tested elec. production®, "Together, we

“We need to work together | carrier in the southem city of sile strikes.
to adktress issues like confl