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Image Source: Mohsin Naqvi on X Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi departed for Tehran on Saturday for meetings with senior Iranian officials, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported.IRNA said Naqvi would discuss the progress of negotiations between Iran and the United States during his visit, without providing further details Related Story Source link
Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud affirmed today his country’s aspiration for a permanent agreement between the United States and Iran that would enhance the security and stability of the region.During a telephone call with Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammad Shahbaz Sharif, His Royal Highness expressed the Kingdom’s welcome of the agreement reached between the United States and Iran to end military operations, facilitated by mediation efforts undertaken by Islamabad.For his part, Sharif commended the efforts exerted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in supporting the memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran to halt the conflict between them. Source link
Fourteen-year-old prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi hammered a stunning 175 from just 80 balls as India thumped England by 100 runs in the Under-19 ODI World Cup final in Harare yesterday. Suryavanshi, who has already made history by becoming the youngest player to post a century in the Indian Premier League, lashed 15 fours and 15 sixes in his innings which saw him score his last 151 runs from just 56 balls. The left-handed opener was finally caught behind by England captain Thomas Rew off Manny Lumsden to leave India on 251-3 in the 26th over. They closed their 50 overs on 411-9. England launched a spirited attempt at making the runs with opener Ben Dawkins making 66 and middle-order batter Caleb Falconer striking a sublime 115 from 67 balls. Falconer was last man out, superbly caught by Khilan Patel, with England all out for 311 in 40.2 overs and India winning the title for the sixth time. “I had faith in my skills that I can contribute in big games and today it happened,” said Suryavanshi who was named player of the match and player of the tournament, having finished with 439 runs in seven innings at 62.71. Suryavanshi launched himself on to the international scene in 2024 as a 13-year-old with a 58-ball century against Australia in his Under-19 debut. Picked up by Rajasthan Royals, Suryavanshi then announced himself on the world stage by belting his first ball fearlessly for six on his IPL debut. Nine days later, he clubbed the Gujarat Titans bowlers to all parts as he scored the second fastest hundred in tournament history. The teenager brought up his century off 35 balls with 11 sixes and seven fours to stand behind only West Indies great Chris Gayle, who took 30 balls to make a ton in 2013. Source link
Proudly showing off photographs on her tablet of her grandson’s first hunt, Dorthe Olsen refuses to let the turmoil sparked by US president Donald Trump take over her life in a small hamlet nestled deep in a Greenland fjord. Sarfannguit, founded in 1843, is located 36km east of Sisimiut, Greenland’s second-biggest town, and is accessible by boat in summer and snowmobile or dogsled in winter if the ice freezes.The settlement has just under 100 residents, most of whom live off from hunting and fishing. On this February day, only the wind broke the deafening silence, whipping across the scattering of small colourful houses. Most of them looked empty. At the end of a gravel road, a few children played outdoors, rosy-cheeked in the bitter cold, one wearing a Spiderman woolly hat.”Everything is very calm here in Sarfannguit,” said Olsen, a 49-year-old teacher, welcoming AFP into her home for coffee and traditional homemade pastries and cakes. In the background, a giant flat screen showed a football match from England’s Premier League.Olsen told AFP of the tears of pride she shed when her grandson killed his first caribou at age 11, preferring to talk about her family than about Trump. The US president has repeatedly threatened to seize the mineral-rich island, an autonomous territory of Denmark, alleging that Copenhagen is not doing enough to protect it from Russia and China.He nevertheless climbed down last month and agreed to negotiations.Greenland’s health and disability minister, Anna Wangenheim, recently advised Greenlanders to spend time with their families and focus on their traditions, as a means of coping with the psychological stress caused by Trump’s persistent threats. The US leader’s rhetoric “has impacted a lot of people’s emotions during many weeks”, Wangenheim told AFP in Nuuk.’Powerless’Olsen insisted that the geopolitical crisis — pitting Nato allies against each other in what is the military alliance’s deepest crisis in years — “doesn’t really matter”.”I know that Greenlanders can survive this,” she said. Is she not worried about what would happen to her and her neighbours if the worst were to happen — a US invasion — especially given her settlement’s remote location?”Of course I worry about those who live in the settlements,” she said. “If there’s going to be a war and you are on a settlement, of course you feel powerless about that.” The only thing to do is go on living as normally as possible, she said, displaying Greenland’s spirit of resilience. That’s the message she tries to give her students, who get most of their news from TikTok. “We tell them to just live the normal life that we live in the settlement and tell them it’s important to do that.”The door opened. It was her husband returning from the day’s hunt, a large plastic bag in hand containing a skinned seal. Olsen cut the liver into small pieces, offering it with bloodstained fingers to friends and family gathered around the table.”It’s my granddaughter’s favourite part,” she explained. Fishing and hunting account for more than 90 percent of Greenland’s exports.No private propertyBack in Sisimiut after a day out seal hunting on his boat, accompanied by AFP, Karl-Jorgen Enoksen stressed the importance of nature and his profession in Greenland. He still can’t get over the fact that an ally like the United States could become so hostile towards his country. “It’s worrying and I can’t believe it’s happening. We’re just trying to live the way we always have,” the 47-year-old said.The notion of private property is alien to Inuit culture, characterised by communal sharing and a deep connection to the land. “In Greenlandic tradition, our hunting places aren’t owned. And when there are other hunters on the land we are hunting on, they can just join the hunt,” he explained. “If the US ever bought us, I can for example imagine that our hunting places would be bought.””I simply just can’t imagine that,” he said, recalling that his livelihood is already threatened by climate change. He doesn’t want to see his children “inherit a bad nature — nature that we have loved being in — if they are going to buy us”.”That’s why it is we who are supposed to take care of OUR land.” Source link
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