Biden, Erdogan Discuss F-16 Jets Issue
ROME: U.S. President Joe Biden told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan his request for F-16 fighter jets had to go through a process in the United...
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...
British MP Stabbed to Death
British Conservative MP David Amess has died after being stabbed at an event in his local constituency in southeast England, British media said Friday. Police...
Dozens Killed in Kandahar Mosque Blast
KABUL: A large explosion tore through a mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during Friday prayers, causing heavy casualties, a spokesman of the...
Taiwan Building Inferno Kills 46, Dozens Injured
TAIPEI: An overnight fire tore through a building in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung on Thursday, killing 46 people and injuring dozens of others...
Man Using Bow And Arrow Kills Four In Norway
OSLO: A man using a bow and arrow killed four people and wounded several others in attacks in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg on Wednesday....
Military Drills Near Taiwan a ‘Just’ Move: China
BEIJING: Chinese military exercises near Taiwan are targeted at forces promoting the island’s formal independence and are a “just” move to protect peace and stability,...
Indian Forces Martyr Five More Kashmiris
SRINAGAR: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops in their fresh acts of state terrorism martyred five more Kashmiri youth in two different...
Liquidity Needed to Stem Afghanistan Economic, Humanitarian Crises: UN SG
The international community must find ways to inject cash directly into Afghanistan’s economy to avert its total collapse as a growing humanitarian crisis impacts half...
16 Killed in Russian Plane Crash
MOSCOW: In Russia, at least 16 people were killed while seven injured after a plane crashed in the Tatarstan region. In a statement, the emergency...
US To Hold First In-person Talks With Taliban Since Kabul Takeover
WASHINGTON: The United States and the Taliban will hold their first in-person talks since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan starting Saturday, the State Department said....
US Nuclear Submarine Damaged After Hitting Deep Water Object
US nuclear submarine was damaged and some crew members were injured when it “struck an unknown object” while operating at depth a week ago in...
Japan, Russia Agree For Negotiations on Peace Agreement
Japan and Russia have agreed to move forward with negotiations on a peace agreement. Speaking to the press after first phone call to Russian President...
Indian Forces Martyr Youth in IoK
SRINAGAR: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred a Kashmiri in Islamabad district. The unarmed...
Bomb Explosion Kills 100 In Kunduz Mosque
Kabul: An explosion ripped through a mosque in northern Afghanistan, killing and wounding dozens of people at Friday prayers in Kunduz province. The cause and...
US Deputy Secretary of State Expresses Sympathy For Balochistan Earthquake
US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman says she is heartbroken to learn of the deadly earthquake that struck southwest Pakistan on Thursday morning. In...
Student Firing Injures Four Fellow Students In Texas
ARLINGTON: An 18-year-old student opened fire during a fight at his Dallas-area high school on Wednesday, injuring four people and then fleeing before being taken...
WHO Recommends Use of First Malaria Vaccine For Children
GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Wednesday endorsed the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine, the first against the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 400,000 people a...
UAE Declares Country Out of Coronavirus Crisis
The United Arab Emirates has declared that country is out of the coronavirus crisis and life will begin to return to normal. The announcement has...
Japan: Parliament Elects Fumio Kishida as New PM
TOKYO: In Japan, the parliament has approved Fumio Kishida as country’s new prime minister. His election came after former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga submitted his...
Navjot Singh Sidhu Released
CHANDIGARH: Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu was released from Sarangpur Police Station on Monday hours after he was detained by the police while protesting outside...
Nine Killed As Cyclone ‘Shaheen’ Lashes Oman, Iran
At least nine people have been killed in Oman and Iran as Tropical Cyclone Shaheen pummelled parts of their coastlines. According to Oman meteorology service,...
Blast Kills Eight Civilians Near Kabul Mosque
KABUL: An explosion outside a mosque in the Afghan capital killed “a number of civilians” on Sunday, a senior Taliban official said. The blast struck...
UK Army to Deliver Petrol From Monday Amid Fuel Crisis
LONDON: The British army will begin delivering petrol to fuel stations on Monday after fears over tanker driver shortages led to panic buying and forced...
Saudi Crown Prince, French President Stress Importance of Regional Security
Saudi Arabia and France have agreed to enhance bilateral relations in diverse fields to maintain peace, stability and security in the region. In a telephonic...
Dubai Expo 2020 kicks off
Dubai: The United Arab Emirates spent eight years and billions of dollars turning 1,080 acres of Dubai desert into the site of Expo 2020, the...
Three Palestinians Martyred By Israeli Forces
JERUSALEM: Israeli forces have martyred three Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied Palestinian territory. These Palestinians were martyred the occupied West Bank village of...
America “Lost” 20-year War In Afghanistan: General Mark Milley
WASHINGTON: In a frank admission during a hearing, the top US military official admitted that America “lost” the 20-year war in Afghanistan and the “corrupt”...
Saudi Arabia To Again Supply Oil to Pakistan on Deferred Payments
Saudi Arabia will again give Pakistan oil worth $1.5 billion on deferred payment in July. Speaking on the floor of the Lower House of Parliament,...
North Korea Tests Fire Hypersonic Missile
SEOUL: The projectile North Korea fired off its east coast on Tuesday was a newly developed hypersonic missile, state news media KCNA reported on Wednesday,...
Biden Apprised,Rushed Withdrawal From Afg Could Increase Risks To Pak: US Generals
Washington: Top US generals are claiming that they had warned US President Joe Biden that a rushed withdrawal from Afghanistan could increase risks to Pakistan’s...
Four Kashmiris Martyred in IoK
SRINAGAR: In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K), Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism, martyred four more Kashmiri youth in Baramulla...
Turkish President Set to Visit Russia on Wednesday
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to pay a visit to Russia tomorrow to discuss with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin the current regional...
UNSG Urges World To Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres has urged the international community to eliminate nuclear weapons and resolve their all out standing issues through dialogue to...
5.8 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Greece
ATHENS: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 shook Greece’s largest island, Crete, on Monday morning, killing one person and injuring several, authorities said. The...