Iran FM Tests Positive For COVID-19
TEHRAN: Iran s foreign minister has tested positive for Covid, local media reported, at a key moment in diplomatic efforts to revive a nuclear agreement with...
Global Leaders Pledge to Safe Forests
GLASGOW: More than 100 global leaders late on Monday pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, underpinned...
Blast In Hospital Of Kabul Claims 13 Lives And Injuring 34 Others
KABUL: At least two explosions followed by gunfire hit Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital in Kabul, witnesses and Taliban officials said on Tuesday. The blast resulted...
Suicide Rate Increases in India
NEW DELHI: How did the Covid-19 pandemic affect accidental deaths and suicides in India? The 2020 National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report released on October...
Pakistan Condemns Vandalization Of Mosques & Muslim Properties In India
Islamabad: Pakistan has strongly condemned the vandalization of several mosques, houses and shops of Muslims by radical Hindutva mobs in Tripura, India. In a statement,...
India Tests Agni-5 Ballistic Missile
NEW DELHI: India has tested a ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead up to 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles), the defence ministry said. The...
Coup in Sudan As Military Detains PM Abdalla Hamdok
KHARTOUM: Soldiers arrested most of the members of Sudan’s cabinet and a large number of pro-government party leaders on Monday (today) in an apparent military...
US Announces Killing of Senior Al Qaeeda Leader in Drone Strike
A senior al-Qaeda leader was killed in a US drone strike in Syria, the Pentagon said Friday. The strike comes two days after a base...
Muslims Offered First Jumma At Haram Sharif Without Coronavirus Restrictions
MAKKAH: After the Saudi government relaxed COVID-19 restrictions pertaining to holy sites, Muslims flocked to the Grand Mosque in Makkah today and offered Jumma (Friday)...
Twin Blasts in Syria Kill At Least 27
DAMASCUS : A rare bombing of an army bus in Damascus and government shelling shortly after of a town in rebel-held northwest Syria killed at...
Biden Nominates Donald Blome As US Envoy For Pakistan
WASHINGTON: The White House has said that President Joe Biden has appointed diplomat Donald Blome as US Ambassador to Pakistan, who has extensive experience in...
Iran Asks World Powers To Show Sincerity In Talks
TEHRAN: Iran’s president said Monday the United States should lift the sanctions on his country to prove it is serious about restarting stalled nuclear talks...
Zalmay Khalilzad Resigns as US Special Envoy For Afghanistan
WASHINGTON: Zalmay Khalilzad, the veteran US envoy whose months of patient hotel-ballroom diplomacy helped end the US war in Afghanistan but failed to prevent a...
Facebook Announces Thousands of Job
PARIS: Facebook on Monday announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build the “metaverse”, a virtual reality version of the internet...
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell Dies of COVID-19
WASHINGTON: Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state who saw his legacy tarnished when he made the case for war in Iraq in...
Bill Gates’ Daughter Jennifer Marries Muslim Fiancé
New York: Jennifer Gates, the eldest child of Bill and Melinda Gates, was married to her Muslim fiancé Nayel Nassar in a private ceremony on...
US Offers Condolence Payments to Family of Afghans Killed in Kabul Drone Attack
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has offered unspecified condolence payments to the family of 10 civilians who were killed in a botched US drone attack in Afghanistan...
Indian Forces Martyr One More Youth in IoK
SRINAGAR: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred a Kashmiri youth in Pulwama district, today....
Russia Says it Pushed US Destroyer From Area Near its Waters
MOSCOW: Russia’s Defense Ministry said a Russian warship on Friday prevented a U.S. Navy destroyer from what it described as an attempt to intrude into...