Russia, US To Hold Talks Over Ukraine Issue on Feb 1
Russia has announced that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov would hold a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken over Ukraine issue on Tuesday....
More Than 1400 Flights Cancelled In USA Owing To Northeast Storm
Washington: More than 1,400 US flights have been cancelled after the northeastern part of the United States was hit by a powerful winter storm. Several...
France, Russia Agree to Continue Talks To De-escalate Tensions in Ukraine
WEB DESK: France and Russia have agreed to continue meaningful dialogue to de-escalate tensions in Ukraine. An agreement to this effect came during a telephonic...
Afghans Are In Horrific Situation, Says WFP Chief
Millions of people in Afghanistan are facing a dire situation as they struggle to cover their basic needs, David Beasley, the executive director of the...
Six Rockets Target Baghdad Airport, Damaging Plane
BAGHDAD: Six rockets were fired Friday at the Iraqi capital’s airport, causing damage but no casualties, security sources said, the latest in a string of...
US Pentagon Chief Orders Reforms To Reduce Civilian Deaths
WASHINGTON: The US Defence Secretary, Lloyd Austin has ordered Pentagon officials to undertake reforms to reduce the number of civilian deaths from military strikes. In...
China Urges US, Russia, Other Parties to Stay Calm Over Ukraine Issue
BEIJING: China has urged the United States, Russia and all other parties to stay calm and refrain from doing things that agitate tensions and hype...
North Korea Tests Fire Two More Missiles
SEOUL: Nuclear-armed North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, drawing condemnation from the United States for what would be...
Russia Calls NATO War Preparations Over Ukraine Provocation
KIEV: The Ukraine conflict has casted a dark cloud over Europe. NATO countries begin war preparations. The United States (US) and Britain have ordered some...
39 Go Missing After Boat Capsizes in Florida
TEXAS: Rescuers from the United States Coast Guard are searching the waters off Florida’s Atlantic coast for 39 people reported missing for several days after...
Eight Killed In Stampede During Football Match In Cameroon
Yaoundé: A crush outside a stadium in Cameroon’s capital hosting an Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) match left at least eight people dead and more...
France Records Over Half A Million Record COVID Cases
Paris: France records over half a million record COVID cases amid Omicron surge as France posted 5,01,635 new cases of coronavirus for the past 24...
London Police Probe Lockdown Parties at British PM’s Residence
London’s Metropolitan Police Service has opened an investigation into possible COVID-19 lockdown breaches at British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Downing Street residence after receiving evidence from...
Biden Talks With EU Leaders As Situation At Ukraine-Russia Border Deteriorates
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden spoke with European leaders as he mulls the option of deploying military personnel and equipment to the region amid the...
Houthis Target KSA With Ballistic Missiles
The United Arab Emirates intercepted and destroyed two Houthi ballistic missiles targeting the Gulf country on Monday with no casualties, its defence ministry said, following...
US Orders Diplomats’ Families To Leave Ukraine
WASHINGTON: The United States has ordered the families of its diplomats in the Ukrainian capital Kiev to leave the country due to the continued threat...
India Blocks 35 YouTube Channels of Pakistani Journalists
NEW DELHI: The truth was not digested by the Modi government of India as it has blocked several YouTube channels of Pakistani journalists. 35 Pakistani...
Kashmir Dispute Should Be Resolved on Basis of UN Resolutions: Guterres
NEW YORK: The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has reiterated the world body’s position on Kashmir dispute that it should be resolved on the basis...
US Warns Russia Of Severe Consequences If Ukraine Attacked
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov have held talks in Geneva over the Ukraine crisis. Friday’s high-stakes meeting...
UK Drops COVID-19 Restrictions
LONDON: People in England will no longer be required to wear face masks anywhere or work from home from next week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson...
EU Launches Multiple Projects in Afghanistan
WEB DESK: The European Union has launched multiple projects in Afghanistan worth 268.3 million Euros to help Afghan people cope with current problems. According to...
Russia Accuses West of Plotting Provocations in Ukraine
MOSCOW: Russia has accused west of plotting provocations in Ukraine. In statement, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zachariah alleged that Ukrainian and Western claims of...
Repair Work of Baitullah Sharif Completed
RIYADH: The repair work on the roof of Baitullah Sharif including leveling of marble tiles on the roof has been completed.. According to the management...
Taliban PM Calls For Muslim Nations To Recognise Afghan Govt
KABUL: The Taliban s prime minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund on Wednesday called Muslim nations to be the first to officially recognise the government that seized...
Three Killed in Indian Warship Explosion
NEW DELHI: Three killed and 11 injured have been reported in an explosion in the internal compartment onboard the warship at the Naval Dockyard in...
Indonesian Parliament Passes Bill To Relocate Capital From Jakarta
JAKARTA: The Indonesian Parliament has passed a bill to relocate the capital from Jakarta to a jungled area on Borneo island namely Nusantara. The new...
North Korea Confirms Fourth Missile Test This Month
North Korea has confirmed that it carried out its fourth missile test this month. According to Korean Central News Agency, the Academy of Defence Science...
At least 12 Killed in Afghan Earthquake
HERAT: At least 12 people were killed after an earthquake hit western Afghanistan on Monday, an official said. The victims died when roofs of their...
Three Killed In Suspected Drone Attack at Abu Dhabi Airport
DUBAI: A report of international media outlet has claimed that Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group has carried out a drone strike on Abu Dhabi. According to Abu Dhabi police, three fuel tankers exploded in an industrial area, while a fire broke out at a construction site at Abu Dhabi International Airport killing three people. The Houthi...
FBI Storms Texas Synagogue To Release Hostages, Gunman Dead
TEXAS: An FBI Hostage Rescue Team stormed a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas to free three remaining hostages of a gunman who had disrupted a religious...
Russia-Ukraine: US Warns of ‘False-Flag’ Operation
Russia is plotting to stage acts of provocation to create a pretext to invade Ukraine, a US official has said. A Pentagon spokesman said Russian...
North Korea Tests Two Ballistic Missiles Amid US Sanctions
Pyongyang: North Korea fired at least two ballistic missiles on Friday, its third test in two weeks, just hours after criticising a US push for...
Another Mosque Shut Down In France Over Charges Of Anti-Semitism
Cannes:A French mosque has been shut down for supporting Islamist groups and anti-Semitism, France’s interior minister confirmed. Gerald Darmanin said on Wednesday that he had...
UK’s Johnson Apologizes For Attending Party During Lockdown
LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized Wednesday for attending a garden party during Britain’s first coronavirus lockdown, but brushed aside opposition demands that he resign...
Boris Johnson Accused of Breaking Lockdown With Garden Party
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced a wave of public and political outrage on Tuesday over allegations that he and his staff flouted coronavirus...
US Announces Aid of $308 For Afghans as Crisis Grows
WASHINGTON: The United States on Tuesday announced $308 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan, offering new aid to the country as it edges toward...
Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Faisal Visits China, Hold Talks With Counterpart
Beijing: State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. The...
Cyprus Finds Covid-19 Infections That Combine Delta and Omicron
A strain of Covid-19 that combines delta and omicron was found in Cyprus, according to Leondios Kostrikis, professor of biological sciences at the University of...
Aung San Suu Kyi Found Guilty Over Walkie-Talkie Charges
BURMA: A military-run court in Myanmar has found civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was overthrown in last February’s coup, guilty on at least...
Ten Bodies Left in Vehicle Outside Mexican Governor’s Office
MEXICO: An SUV filled with 10 bodies was left outside the office of a Mexican state governor in a public square lit up with holiday...
Total Number of Covid-19 Cases Registered Worldwide Passed 300 Million
PARIS: The total number of Covid-19 cases registered worldwide passed 300 million, with the Omicron variant s rapid spread setting new infection records in dozens...
Biden Condemns Trump as a Threat to Democracy
President Joe Biden on Thursday marked the first anniversary of the January 6 insurrection by forcefully calling out former President Donald Trump for attempting to...
Dozens of Policemen Dead in Clashes in Kazakhstan’s Almaty
Dozens of protesters and at least a dozen security officers died in clashes in Kazakhstan’s largest city and former capital Almaty, with scuffles ongoing in...
Eight Children Killed in US Apartment Fire
WASHINGTON: Twelve people, including eight children, were killed early on Wednesday when flames swept through a public housing apartment building in Philadelphia in one of...
India PM Narendra Modi Trapped In Farmers Protest
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was trapped on a flyover for 20 minutes by protesters in Punjab in what is being reported as...
Indian Forces Martyr Three Kashmiris in Occupied Kashmir
SRINAGAR: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred three Kashmiri youth in Pulwama district, today...
Sudan’s PM Resigns
KHARTOUM: Sudan’s civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigned Sunday, more than two months after a coup and following another deadly crackdown on protesters, with the...
Stampede at Hindu Shrine Kills at Least 12 People in IoK
SRINAGAR: At least 12 people have died and 13 injured in a stampede at a religious shrine in Indian-administered Kashmir. The disaster happened around 3am...
Pakistani Youth Go To Bottom of Sea To Celebrate New Year
RIYADH: In Saudi Arabia, Pakistani youth went to the bottom of the sea to celebrate the New Year by cutting a cake. In the Saudi...