NATO Announces End of Afghan Military Mission
BRUSSELS: Security officials under NATO command have approached Qatar to secure a base that can be used to train Afghan special forces as part of...
No Hajj For Pakistanis This Year
RIYADH: Due to the Corona epidemic, foreign pilgrims, including Pakistanis, will not be able to travel to Saudi Arabia for Hajj this year. According to...
Frenchman Given 4 Months in Jail For Slapping Macron
PARIS: A court on Thursday sentenced to four months in prison a man who slapped President Emmanuel Macron across the face after being angered by...
UN Security Council Backs Guterres For Second Term
NEW YORK: The United Nations Security Council backed Secretary General Antonio Guterres for a second term, recommending that the 193-member General Assembly appoint him for...
Ratko Mladic: Serb Crusader Dubbed ‘Epitome of Evil’
WEB DESK: Ratko Mladic insists he was chosen by “fate” to defend the Serb people from a Western onslaught, but on Tuesday he will find...
France President Emmanuel Macron Slapped In The Face
Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron has been slapped in the face on an official visit to the southeast of France. In a video circulating on...
Media Websites Links Down As Fault Interrupts Internet Globally
Web Desk: Multiple outages hit social media, government and news websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at...
Muslim Family Killed In Canada Truck Attack
A man driving a pick-up truck slammed into and killed four members of a Muslim family in the south of Canada’s Ontario province, in what...
Chinese Man Kills Six, Injures 14 With Knife Attack
BEIJING: Police caught a suspect in a knife attack that killed six people and injured 14 on Saturday in the eastern Chinese city of Anqing,...
Seven Men Arrested Over Selling Seven Kg Uranium in India
NEW DELHI: Jharkand police have arrested seven people for possessing and planning to sell ‘mineral uranium’ in the black market. Police said that they seized...
Indonesia Cancels Hajj Pilgrimage Due To Coronavirus Concerns
JAKARTA: Indonesia has cancelled the hajj pilgrimage for people in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation for a second year in a row due to concerns...
WHO Validates Sinovac COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use
WHO has validated the Sinovac-CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, giving countries, funders, procuring agencies and communities the assurance that it meets international standards for...
Armed Men Kidnap 150 Students in Nigeria
An armed gang abducted 150 students from an Islamic school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger on Sunday, police and state government officials said....
Netyanhau’s Power In Danger
JERUSALEM: In a bid to unseat Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s, his rivals on Monday sought to finalise a unity coalition; however, political commentators saw...
China Allows Three Children
BEIJING: Married Chinese couples may have up to three children, China announced on Monday, in a major shift from the existing limit of two after...
China Allows Couples To Have Three Children
BEIJING: China has further relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have a maximum of three children after a recent census showed its...