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The two traditional powerhouses of Pakistani politics and rivals to Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan announced late on Tuesday that they planned to form a coalition. This ends the deadlock which followed last week’s parliamentary election, where no party secured a simple majority. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of former three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said it was joining forces with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) as well as other smaller parties.  Together, the parties would have enough seats to command a majority in parliament. The PML-N controls 75 seats and the PPP, 54. Candidates from Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party mostly had to run…

Among the crowds of homeless people now packed into southern Gaza, there is a five-year-old boy called Mu’min who was hit by a grenade.A fragment from the device passed through his left eye and is lodged in his brain – but the injury he sustained in the kitchen of his home forms just a part of this story. The incident is just one of an innumerable number of catastrophes experienced by children in Gaza.Follow latest updates: ‘Dreaded scenario unravelling at alarming speed’, UN warns More than 10,000 have died according to the territory’s ministry of health. At least 17,000 children…

The US’ Republican-led House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to impeach Democratic President Joe Biden’s top border official, with migration policies taking center stage ahead of November’s presidential election. Conservatives blamed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a surge in crossings of illegal migrants from the US-Mexican border. The vote narrowly passed with 214 in favor and 213 against. It was the second attempt to impeach Mayorkas. Last week’s impeachment attempt failed, in the absence of Republican House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who was receiving cancer treatment. Scalise attended Tuesday’s session and gave the motion the decisive vote. Mayorkas’ impeachment…

Spectacular photos have captured the Northern Lights in the skies above Iceland.Pictures of the phenomenon taken last night show sheets of green light dancing in the sky. “Might be the best night of 2024,” one person posted on X. Image: Pic: @IcelandToursX Image: Pic: @IcelandToursX The spectacle, also known as the Aurora Borealis, can often be seen in countries such as Iceland and Norway.Occasionally it can be seen in the UK. Read more from Sky News:The space race to the moon – for a crucial resource that could change everything’Archaeological discovery of a lifetime’ as ancient scrolls deciphered by AINew…

The father of world marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum has called on the Kenyan government to investigate his son’s death – saying four people came “looking for” the athlete days before he died.The death of the 24-year-old, who won the London Marathon last year, was announced by Kenya’s former prime minister, Raila Odinga, on Sunday. The athlete’s coach, Gervais Hakizimana, also died when a car the pair were travelling in crashed on a road between two towns in western Kenya.Devastated by the death of his only son, Kiptum’s father, Samson Cheruiyot, has appealed to the government to conduct an investigation,…

The party of Pakistan’s former prime minister and its allies have announced they will form a coalition government after elections failed to elect a single party. Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairs, father and son, Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, agreed the deal which would put an end to the hung parliament. It is widely believed that Mr Sharif’s brother, Shehbaz Sharif, will be the nominee put forward for prime minister.Mr Sharif welcomed the support from the PPP and other parties, saying they had all come together because they…

London Zoo announced the arrival of a second endangered western lowland gorilla baby on Tuesday. The infant, who was born to mother Effie on February 8 and is yet to be named, arrives just three and a half weeks after another western lowland gorilla was born at the zoo. Both arrivals boost numbers of a subspecies that is critically endangered. While the exact numbers of lowland gorillas in the wild are unknown, their numbers are thought to have declined by around 60% in the last 25 years. Western lowland gorillas can be distinguished from other gorilla subspecies by their slightly smaller size, their brown-grey coats and…

The marathon overnight session in the Senate to pass a funding bill for Ukraine is a relief for Kyiv and for Europe. It’s yet to pass the House of Representatives, though. It may well not.And the whole episode is indicative of an almighty American political mess with huge implications.The real story isn’t that the US Senate has done its part in passing the spending bill for Ukraine. Ukraine latest: Zelenskyy reacts to crucial US Senate voteIt’s actually about how we got to this point, and it is a story of raw, ugly politics.It is about American leadership, and it is…

Recently, calls for the Western world to recognize Palestine as a state in its own right have been getting louder. Although Germany does not consider Palestine a country, a majority of the world’s states — 139 out of a total of 193 — at the United Nations do. What’s significant this time, though, is that recognition is apparently being reconsidered by the US, a country that has previously vetoed almost every attempt to make Palestine a country. The UK also seems to be thinking about it even though in the past, the country has been just as opposed to the move as the US. “What…

It was the sheer chutzpah and brazen confidence of the ambassador’s performance that was most striking.His words speak volumes about the way Russia believes this war is now moving in its favour. Andrei Kelin, Vladimir Putin’s ambassador to the UK, is a career civil servant.In an interview with Sky News’ Yalda Hakim, he chose his words and tone carefully.He was able to sound assured because Ukrainians are not winning this war and at times he was even able to rub salt in their wounds. He claimed the frontline in Ukraine is moving steadily westwards and the country is struggling to…