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EU takes legal action against Poland over court reform

  • BRUSSELS, July 29 (APP/AFP) – The European Union said Saturday it has launched legal action against Poland’s right-wing government over a new law it fears will undermine the independence of the country’s common courts. The action taken by the European Commission, the EU executive, could lead to Poland being hauled before the 28-nation bloc’s highest […]

  • 13 injured in a road accident

    SIALKOT,July 29 (APP): Thirteen people,including two women,were injured in a a road accident near here on Saturday. According to police, the bus rammed into a tree due to speeding near Gunna Jungle. As a result, Sonia, Komal, Waseem, Iftikhar, Asif, Abdul Rehman, Irshad, Shahbaz, Rafaqat, Liaqat Ali, Muhammad Hanif, Naveed and Mudassar received severe injuries. […]

  • EU takes legal action against Poland over court reform

    BRUSSELS, July 29 (APP/AFP) – The European Union said Saturday it has launched legal action against Poland’s right-wing government over a new law it fears will undermine the independence of the country’s common courts. The action taken by the European Commission, the EU executive, could lead to Poland being hauled before the 28-nation bloc’s highest […]

  • Hamburg attacker was known to authorities as ‘Islamist’: official

    HAMBURG, July 29, (APP/AFP) – The suspect who stormed into a supermarket in Hamburg and killed one person with a knife, was known to authorities as an “Islamist”, said the port city’s interior minister Saturday. “He was known as an Islamist but not a jihadist,” said Andy Grote, noting “there are indications of radicalisation”. He […]

  • Palestinian president leaves hospital after ‘routine checkup’

    RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories, July 29, (APP/AFP) – Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas was discharged from hospital in the Israel-occupied West Bank on Saturday after a brief “routine checkup”, the official Wafa news agency reported. The 82-year-old president “was admitted to hospital in Ramallah for a routine checkup to last only a few hours”, his spokesman Nabil […]

  • Home of Kenya Deputy President William Ruto attacked

    NAIROBI, July 29, (APP/AFP) – Unknown gunmen attacked the home of Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto on Saturday, less than two weeks before the country votes in high-stakes polls, two security sources told AFP. Ruto was not home during the attack that left one officer from the elite police General Service Unit seriously injured, the […]