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...
UK PM Boris Johnson Marries For Third Time
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday, capping a week of political drama with a wedding...
Ind-Pak Ceasefire Along LoC Contributed To Feeling Of Peace: Indian Army Chief
New Delhi: : Indian Chief of Army Staff General M M Naravane has said that the ceasefire between Indian and Pakistani armies along the Line...
Biden budget: President Sets out $6tn Spending plan
President Joe Biden on Saturday unveiled a $6 trillion budget for next year that’s piled high with new safety net programs for the poor and...
Saudi Arabia Lifts Ban From Travelers Arriving From 11 Countries
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia is lifting a ban on travelers arriving from 11 countries that it had imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the...
Syria’s Assad Re-Elected As President For 4th Term
Damascus: Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a fourth term as the president of war-ravaged Syria, official results showed. The parliamentary speaker announced that Assad...
Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier Didn’t Say Covid Vaccine Recipients Will Die
An Indian magazine’s Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found that Luc had called the idea of vaccinating masses during the pandemic an unacceptable...
Military Detain Mali’s President, PM and Defence Minister
Military officers in Mali detained the president, prime minister and defence minister of the interim government on Monday, deepening political chaos just months after a...
Iran Agrees to Extend IAEA Nuclear Monitoring Deal For One Month
TEHRAN: Iran has agreed to extend by one month an agreement allowing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to keep surveillance cameras at nuclear sites....
EU Agrees New Belarus Sanctions After plane Arrest
Brussels: The EU has decided to ban Belarusian airlines from European skies after a flight was diverted to Minsk on Sunday and a dissident journalist...
Five More Bodies Found in Gaza
GAZA: In search of life in the rubble of buildings, Palestinians returned to their destroyed homes in Gaza after the Israeli bombardment stopped, and found...
Nigerian Army Chief Dies in Plane Crash
Nigeria’s top-ranking army commander Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru and other officers were killed on Friday when their plane crashed in bad weather in the country’s...
Israel, Palestinian Groups Agree Gaza Ceasefire
GAZA CITY: Israel and the two main Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, announced a ceasefire aimed to end the most devastating conflict between them...
UN Chief Calls For Immediate End to Israeli Aggression on Gaza
NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an immediate end to tensions following an Israeli aggression on Gaza. “I am deeply shocked by...
Israeli Attacks On Gaza: UNGA To Hold Emergency Session Today
NEW YORK: The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will hold an emergency session on Thursday (today) to discuss Israeli aggression and the grave situation in...
UNGA To Meet on Thursday To Discuss Palestine Issue
The session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on the issue of the latest Israeli assaults on Palestine to take place on Thursday. According...
Israeli Air Strike Destroys Gaza Tower Housing AP, Al Jazeera Offices
An Israeli air strike destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press, Al Jazeera and other media outlets on...
Justin Trudeau Wishes Muslim Community on Eid
TORONTO: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has extended the warmest Eidul Fitr greetings to all the Muslim community from around the world in his recent...
Gaza Death Toll Rises To 109
GAZA: In complete disregard for international appeals, the Israeli planes and troops on the ground are carrying out brutal attacks in the Gaza Strip. At...
Tehran Ready For Closer Ties With Riyadh, Says Zarif
DAMASCUS: Iran’s foreign minister said that his country is ready for closer ties with regional rival Saudi Arabia, adding that he hoped recent talks between...
Death Toll Rises To 83 From Israeli Attacks Against Palestine
GAZA: The death toll in Gaza has soared in Israeli forces’ intermittent attacks and air strikes on Gaza on Thursday. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry,...
World And Most Of The Arab Countries Are Celebrating Eid Ul Fitr Today
Web Desk: Like Pakistan Eid Ul Fitr is also being celebrated in United States of America, Great Briton, Europe and the most of the countries...
Troops Pullout From Afganistan Underway: Pentagon
WASHINGTON: The US military´s withdrawal from Afghanistan is proceeding steadily toward President Joe Biden´s September deadline with as much as 12 percent of the work...
Death Toll Of Palestinians From Israeli Air Strikes On Gaza Reaches 48
Hostilities between Israel and Hamas escalated overnight, with at least 48 Palestine Muslims killed in Gaza and five people killed in Israel in the most...
Shawwal Moon Not Sighted in Saudi Arabia
RIYADH: Shawwal crescent moon not sighted in Saudi Arabia, Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated on Thursday, May 13. Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court had called Muslims in...
24 Palestinians, Including 9 Children, Martyred In Israeli Air Strikes
Occupied Alquds: Tensions reach to a boiling point in Jerusalem as Israeli police continue to attack Palestinian protesters in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in which...
UK Announces Ease in Lockdown From May 17
LONDON: People in England will be able to hug close family and friends and meet indoors at pubs, restaurants and cinemas from next week, in...
Iran Confirms Talks With Saudi Arabia
TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign ministry for the first time confirmed the Islamic republic is holding talks with regional rival Saudi Arabia, but said it is “too...
Afghanistan: Taliban Declare Three-day Eid Ceasefire
The Taliban has declared a three-day ceasefire across Afghanistan to mark this week’s Eid al-Fitr holiday, two days after more than 50 people – mostly...
India’s Covid-19 Cases Reaches 22.66 Million
New Delhi: Calls grew for India to impose a nationwide lockdown as new coronavirus cases and deaths held close to record highs on Monday, increasing...
Turkish President Condemns Israel Police For Violent Temple Mount Clashes
Ankara Several Turkish officials criticized Israel and called for other countries to voice condemnation, while a Foreign Ministry statement urged Israel to “immediately end its...
40 killed in Blast Near Afghan School
KABUL: A blast outside a school in the Afghan capital on Saturday killed at least 40 people and wounded another 52 including students, the interior...
Israeli forces attack worshipers at Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque, scores injured
JERUSALEM: Israeli police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades towards rock-hurling Palestinian youth at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday amid growing anger over the potential...
Biden Says Pakistan to Play Important Role in Afghan-Peace
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Joe Biden says Pakistan’s position in ending the Afghan war and moving toward a peace deal is important. On his 100th day...
Biden Sets New Goal: At Least 70% Of Adults Given 1 Vaccine Dose By July
WASHINGTON: US President Biden has announced a new goal to administer at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to 70% of American adults by...
India Posts Record Daily Rise in COVID Deaths
NEW DELHI: India accounted for nearly half of the COVID-19 cases reported worldwide last week, the World Health Organization said, as the country’s coronavirus deaths...
Hurriyat Leader Ashraf Sehrai Passes Away
SRINAGAR: In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K), detained senior APHC leader and Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir Chairman Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai has died in...
23 Dead, Many Hurt as Elevated Metro Collapses in Mexico
MEXICO CITY : An elevated metro line collapsed in the Mexican capital on Monday, leaving at least 23 people dead and dozens injured as a...
COVID Continues To Play Havoc in India
NEW DELHI: India’s total Covid caseload soared past 20 million on Tuesday, official data showed, as the pandemic continued to wreak havoc on the country’s...
Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
WEB DESK: Bill and Melinda Gates announced in identical tweets Monday that they were ending their 27-year marriage. They said they “no longer believe” that...
India’s COVID-19 Case Total Nears 20 Million
NEW DELHI: India on Monday reported more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases for a 12th straight day, taking its overall caseload to just shy of...