The Columbus Dispatch

RALLYING SUPPORTERS

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appointed by Muhyiddin, have denied there was political interferen­ce in the investigat­ion and prosecutio­n process. masks, though Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wasn’t wearing one when he arrived at his office Monday.

Dropping the mask-wearing request is one of the last steps Japan’s government is taking in easing COVID-19 rules in public places.

CARTERSVIL­LE, Ga. – Two men caught shopliftin­g at a grocery store in Georgia had an estimated $26,000 worth of baby formula in their car, according to authoritie­s.

Police in Cartersvil­le caught the men walking out of a Publix store north of Atlanta with backpacks filled with cans of formula, news outlets reported. Officers searching their car found 662 more cans of formula inside, police Lt. Greg Sparacio said.

The men were jailed in Bartow County on charges of shopliftin­g, felony theft by receiving, and contributi­ng to the delinquenc­y of a minor.

Security personnel and supporters move with a vehicle, bottom left, carrying Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday during an election campaign rally in Lahore, Pakistan. Khan rallied thousands of supporters in eastern Pakistan on Monday as courts in Islamabad issued two more arrest warrants for him over his failure to appear before judges in graft and terrorism cases, officials said.

ISLAMABAD – Former Prime Minister Imran Khan rallied thousands of supporters in eastern Pakistan on Monday as courts in the capital of Islamabad issued two more arrest warrants for him for failing to appear before judges in graft and terrorism cases, officials said.

Since his ouster last April in a noconfiden­ce vote in Parliament, Khan has routinely ignored arrest warrants and court summons in a string of cases against him, claiming they are a plot by the government of his successor, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, to discredit his campaign.

The former cricket star turned Islamist politician has claimed that his ouster was illegal and a conspiracy by Sharif and Washington, which have denied the allegation­s.

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