PARIS (Agencies): Children were among eight people injured Thursday in a knife attack in Annecy, in southeast France, local officials said.A male suspect was detained in connection with the attack.French…

BRUSSELS (AA/APP): A baby died after being forgotten in a car in a hospital parking lot in southern Belgium, local media reported on Thursday.The 6-month-old passed away on Wednesday after…

RAWALPINDI (APP): Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Syed Asim Munir on Wednesday said the hostile forces and their abettors had been trying hard to create societal division and confusion…

NEW YORK (APP): Smoke blowing in from wildfires in neighbouring Canada made New York and Washington some the world’s most polluted cities on Wednesday, overtaking New Delhi, which is notorious…

COLOMBO (Agencies): Authorities in Sri Lanka have fired tear gas and water cannons on hundreds of students protesting in the capital to demand the release of people arrested during last…

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has issued on Wednesday a royal decree to establish a new institute for the Global Cybersecurity Forum (GCF) in Riyadh, state news agency SPA reported.The…

Virginia (Reuters) – A man armed with four handguns killed two people and wounded five others when he fired into a crowd outside a high school graduation ceremony in Richmond,…

NEW YORK (Agencies): CNN has parted ways with CEO Chris Licht a year after he promised to revive the floundering news network as a force for serious journalism, David Zaslav,…

NEW YORK (Agencies):The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked a federal court to issue a temporary restraining order to freeze the US assets of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Reuters…

LONDON (Agencies): British authorities have appointed lawyer and diplomat Abda Sharif as the UK’s new ambassador to Yemen.She will take up her post in September and succeeds Richard Oppenheim, who…

NEW DELHI (Agencies): German and Indian companies signed an agreement Wednesday that envisions the possible building of six military submarines for India.The memorandum of understanding was signed in the presence…

MOSCOW (Agencies): A Ukrainian sabotage group has blown up the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline in Kharkov region. There are casualties among the civilian population, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.The…

Paris (AFP/APP): France’s left-wing forces and labour unions will stage another day of strikes on Tuesday to try to derail President Emmanuel Macron’s pensions overhaul, insisting that the fight to…

WASHINGTON (APP): The United States gets in touch with Pakistan directly on the issues that are of importance to Washington and also to broader regional security and stability, State Department…

SYDNEY (Xinhua/APP): A new study conducted by Australian experts has shown that insects were most likely the pollinators when the first flowers bloomed on Earth more than 140 million years…

TOKYO (Xinhua/APP): Japan has started sending seawater into an underwater tunnel built to release nuclear-contaminated water into the ocean from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, local media reported…

Rome (AFP/APP): Pope Francis was in a Rome hospital for a medical check-up Tuesday, according to Italian media, just over two months after he was hospitalised with bronchitis.The 86-year-old pope…

Singapore (AFP/APP): Singapore’s horse racing community spoke of its anger and heartbreak Tuesday with the city-state’s only racecourse set to close, signalling the end of the sport there after more…

KYIV (Agencies): Ukraine’s military said Russian forces have blown up a large dam in southern Ukraine, while the Moscow-installed official in the city of Nova Kakhovka in the Russian-controlled portion…

Cupertino, United States (AFP/APP): Apple on Monday unveiled its first-ever mixed reality headset, challenging Facebook-owner Meta in a market that has yet to tempt users beyond videogamers and tech geeks.The…

LONDON (BBC): Almost £9bn in old banknotes have not been cashed in across the UK, even though paper £20 and £50 stopped being legal tender in October. Paper banknotes have…

CAIRO (Agencies) : A huge sandstorm hit Egypt last week, killing four people and injuring five others when a billboard fell onto the 6th October Bridge. During the spring, Egypt…

Singapore (Agencies): Qatari Defence Minister, Khalid Al-Attiyah, yesterday discussed strengthening military relations with Saudi Arabia with the kingdom’s Assistant Defence Minister, Talal Al-Otaibi. The discussion came during a meeting that brought both…

Algiers (Agencies): A court in Algeria has confirmed the sentence of a former director of Internal Security to 16 years in prison, Al-Quds Al-Arabi has reported. Wassini Bouazza was charged with attempting…

MOSCOW (Agencies): Russian forces have successfully repelled a “large-scale offensive” by Ukrainian troops along five sections of the front line in Donbass, the Russian Defense Ministry said in the early…

SEOUL (Agencies): South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has approved the mass production of a fourth batch of the Hyundai Rotem K2 main battle tank (MBT) for the Republic…

RIYADH (Agencies): In preparation for the upcoming Hajj, Saudi Arabia’s Roads General Authority has completed safety and maintenance measures to ensure the readiness of the kingdom’s extensive road network. The…

BEIJING (Agencies): Having spent six months living and working in the China Space Station, setting a new record for China’s manned space program with four spacewalks by a single crew,…

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Agencies): Iraq’s prime minister on Saturday announced plans for a $17 billion regional transportation project intended to facilitate the flow of goods from Asia to Europe. The announcement…

RAMALLAH (Agencies): A gunbattle along Israel’s southern border with Egypt left three Israeli soldiers and an Egyptian officer dead on Saturday, officials said. An Egyptian border guard crossed into Israel…

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis will go to Mongolia in early September in the first visit by a pontiff to the Buddhist-majority Asian nation, the Vatican announced Saturday.The 86-year-old pontiff will…

ROME: Tunisia’s foreign minister has hailed “Italy’s clear understanding of the … need to support the … economic recovery underway” in his country. Nabil Ammar was speaking on Friday night…

GENEVA (Agencies): The Executive Board of the World Health Organisation (WHO) elected the State of Qatar as President of the Board at its 153rd session for a period of one…

TEL AVIV (Agencies): Israeli military institutions are preparing for a potential wide-scale military offensive to “purge” the occupied West Bank of armed Palestinian resistance, Hebrew newspaper Maariv revealed on Friday.Maariv’s…

MOSCOW (Agencies): The foreign ministers of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – BRICS – said that building up the New Development Bank is one of their priorities, Anadolu…

LONDON (Agencies): The US Air Force has reportedly been carrying out simulated tests using artificial-intelligence drones tasked with destroying various targets. However, according to a blog post by the Royal…

Tokyo (AFP/APP): Heavy rain across parts of Japan has killed one person, left three missing and injured dozens more, authorities said Saturday, with thousands of residents issued evacuation warnings.The inundation…

UNITED NATIONS (APP): The world must beat the “toxic tidal wave” of plastic pollution that threatens human rights, UN experts said Friday, and called for putting rights at the centre…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Saudi Arabia next week, the State Department announced Friday.Blinken’s trip comes as the Kingdom and US seek to broker…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): US President Joe Biden dispatched CIA Director William Burns to Beijing last month to meet with Chinese intelligence officials, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing anonymous American…

NEW DELHI (Agencies): In a devastating incident in Odisha’s eastern region, the death toll has risen to 233, with 900 others injured, following a multiple train collision. The collision occurred…

AMMAN (Agencies): It was an affair to remember as Jordan’s Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah II wed Saudi national Rajwa Al-Saif, who by royal decree will now be known as…

BEIJING (Agencies): China faces increasingly difficult and complex national security challenges and must prepare for “worst-case” scenarios by increasing its capacity to deal with internal and external threats, President Xi…

MOSCOW (Agencies): The CIA installed malware on thousands of Apple phones used by Russian citizens and foreign diplomats working in the country, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has claimed. The…

Dakar (AFP/APP): Violence erupted in Senegal’s capital Dakar on Thursday after a court sentenced firebrand opposition leader Ousmane Sonko to two years’ jail for “corrupting youth,” a move that dims…

Mexico City (AFP/APP): At least 45 bags with human remains were found in a ravine in the western Mexican state of Jalisco during a search for eight people reported missing…

Washington (AFP/APP): US senators voted to suspend the federal debt limit Thursday, capping weeks of fraught negotiations to eliminate the threat of a disastrous credit default just four days ahead…

Taipei (AFP/APP): Hacking at a bamboo plant with a machete, Avayi Vayayana peels back the shoot’s stiff bark as he scans southern Taiwan’s mountains, anxious for more of the money-making…

TEL AVIV (Agencies): Instead of relying on Palestinian workers, Israel has decided to import 10,000 workers from India. The Indian Government has signed an agreement with Israel to bring 10,000…

MOSCOW (Agencies): The Russian military has destroyed Ukraine’s “last warship,” the Yury Olefirenko, in a high-precision airstrike, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said on Wednesday. “On May 29, as a…

DUBAI (Agencies): The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has resolved nuclear issues with Iran relating to one of three sites being investigated over the presence of uranium particles, Iranian media…

KABUL (Agencies): The Taliban government has called on Iran to resolve bilateral issues “through diplomatic channels,” an Afghan official told Arab News on Monday, as tension at their border eased…

ROME (BBC): Two Italian intelligence agents and a retired Israeli security forces member were among four victims of Sunday’s boating disaster on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, local officials say.…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): China has rejected Washington’s proposal that their defense chiefs meet this week, the Pentagon said on Monday. The news comes amid a renewed diplomatic spat between the two…

HOLLYWOOD (Agencies): Nine people were wounded after gunfire erupted along a crowded beach boardwalk in Hollywood, Florida late Monday night, police have said. There were more people in the area…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): Thirty-one billionaires are currently wealthier than the US Treasury, which had just $38.8 billion in cash on hand at the close of business on Friday. Treasury Secretary Janet…

MOSCOW (Agencies): Drones attacked the Russian capital on Tuesday morning, damaging several buildings, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has said. Sobyanin ordered the evacuation of residents from the two apartment blocks…

LONDON (Agencies): The Secretary-General of the Muslim World League, Sheikh Mohammad Al-Issa, on Saturday held talks with Pope Francis at his office in Saint Martha House in the Vatican, the…

TEHRAN (Agencies): Taliban forces opened fire on Iranian border guards on Saturday, killing at least two, Iranian state media reported. While the situation is now reportedly under control, unverified video…

NEW DELHI (Agencies): An Indian government official has been suspended for ordering the drainage of a reservoir so he could retrieve his phone, which he dropped while taking a selfie.…

TEL AVIV (Agencies): The Israeli government is considering a bill aimed at imposing restrictions on foreign funding for NGOs, local media reported yesterday.According to media reports, the bill states that…

TEHRAN (Agencies): Iran and Belgium have freed an aid worker and a diplomat imprisoned in each other’s countries, respectively, in a deal facilitated by Oman.Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said…

TAIPEI (Agencies): Three Chinese ships, including the Shandong aircraft carrier, passed through the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, the island’s Ministry of National Defense said. China claims self-ruled democratic Taiwan as…

NEW YORK (Agencies): The process of diversifying away from the greenback by countries around the world is gathering pace, according to the latest data from the International Monetary Fund. The…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): American lawmakers have published a list of recommendations on how Washington should “arm Taiwan to the teeth” against any potential attacks from Beijing, urging for more US weapon…

NEW YORK (Agencies): One of the world’s biggest snack companies, Mondelez International, has been labeled an enemy of Ukraine due to its reluctance to exit Russia, Ukrainian media reported on…

LONDON (Agencies): The US, UK and Australia have shown off new AI-powered drone swarms, marking the first-ever collaboration on autonomous UAV technology between the members of the AUKUS security pact,…

ISLAMABAD (APP): Pakistani boxer and Asian boy Usman Wazir would be defending his WBC World Youth title in the fight to be held in Gilgit Baltistan on June 24. Usman…

Tokyo (AFP/APP): Three people, including two police officers, were killed on Thursday in a shooting and stabbing attack in the central region of Nagano, Japanese media said.A male suspect was…

Paris (AFP/APP): Diplomats from 175 countries gathering in Paris for plastics treaty talks on Monday may want to pack an umbrella, but not just because there’s a chance of rain.France’s…

BEIRUT (Agencies): Lebanon’s Central Bank Governor, Riad Salameh, attended a judicial hearing in Beirut on Wednesday where his Lebanese and French passports were confiscated following an Interpol Red Notice against…

OSLO: Norway will support training programs for Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets, Norwegian Defense Minister Bjoern Arild Gram said on Wednesday.US President Joe Biden on Friday endorsed training…

RIYADH (Agencies): Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that it is restoring diplomatic relations with Canada. The decision comes after a discussion between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman…

LOS ANGELES (Agencies): The Los Angeles city council has authorized the use of a robotic “dog” device by the local police department, despite protests from residents and some dissenting council…

MOSCOW (Agencies): The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, General Valery Zaluzhny, was seriously wounded in a Russian missile strike near the city of Kherson earlier this month, a security…

NEW YORK (Reuters): Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a hardscrabble farming community and abusive relationship to become one of the top recording artists of all time, died on…

TEL AVIV (Agencies): The Bank of Israel on Monday raised its benchmark interest rate for a 10th consecutive time, lifting borrowing costs by 25 basis points to 4.75% as it…

Baghdad (Agencies) – The Iraqi President, Abdul Latif Rashid, received on Sunday the new commander of the NATO Mission in Iraq (NMI), Lieutenant General Jose Antonio Aguero Martinez.Martinez will lead…

TRIPOLI (Agencies): The Tuna fishing season in Libya is a neglected economic resource that is costing Libya around US$ 5 billion annually in potential lost revenues due to illegal fishing…

MOSCOW (Agencies): Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Wagner private military company and regular soldiers for liberating the Donbass city of Artyomovsk, known in Ukraine as Bakhmut, from the Ukrainian…

Ulaanbaatar (AFP/APP): Emmanuel Macron on Sunday made a brief but symbolic visit to Mongolia, the first by a French president to the country nestled between China and Russia that is…

Seoul (AFP/APP): South Korea and Germany agreed to boost economic and security cooperation in the face of persisting global uncertainties after their leaders met in Seoul on Sunday.Olaf Scholz, the…

BAKHMUT (Agencies): The key Donbass city of Artyomovsk, known as Bakhmut in Ukraine, has been fully liberated by the Russian forces, Evgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner private military…

UNITED NATIONS (APP): UN health experts have warned that cholera, a 19th-century disease, may be making a ‘devastating’ comeback after years of decline. In a new alert, the World Health…

Worcester, United States (AFP/APP): The US airman accused of leaking top-secret documents will remain in jail pending trial, a federal judge ruled Friday, after prosecutors argued that he posed an…

Washington (AFP/APP): Two years after awarding Elon Musk’s SpaceX a contract to ferry astronauts to the surface of the Moon, NASA on Friday announced it had chosen Blue Origin, a…

Washington (AFP/APP): The threat of a US default was raised a notch on Friday after a “pause” in debt ceiling talks between the White House and the Republican opposition as…

Sydney (AFP/APP): A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Saturday in the Pacific Ocean to the east of New Caledonia, the US Geological Survey said, a day after a major quake hit the…

ISLAMABAD (APP): The Foreign Office on Friday said eight Pakistanis were dead and six others injured in an unfortunate fire incident in a hotel in Makkah. In response to media…

MOSCOW (Agencies): The hazard was produced by depleted uranium munitions destroyed in Ukraine, Nikolay Patrushev has claimed The destruction of depleted uranium shells in Ukraine has produced a radioactive cloud…

NEW DELHI (Agencies): There are few occasions when the navies of India and China cooperate on the high seas. On 17 May, Indian Navy’s US-origin reconnaissance aircraft P8I Poseidon helped…

BEIRUT (Agencies): Lebanon has secured deals for more fuel supplies from Iraq, the two countries said on Tuesday, as Beirut battles to produce more power to help it emerge from years…

ISLAMABAD (Agencies): Lieutenant General Syed Aamer Raza, HI (M) has been posted as new Corps Commander Lahore, defence sources said. The unprecedented incident at the residency of a top military…

ISLAMABAD (Agencies): Iran and Pakistan, on Thursday, inaugurated a joint border market as well as an electricity transmission line in the presence of top government officials, Anadolu News Agency reports.The…

TEL AVIV (Agencies): Israel and the Netherlands signed a five-year arms’ deal worth $305 million, Israel’s Defence Ministry announced yesterday. Israel’s Elbit Systems, a company which sells weapons to the…

BEIJING (Agencies): China has added Russia’s Far Eastern port of Vladivostok as a transit hub for domestic trade shipments, the country’s customs agency announced on Monday.The move is intended to…

MOSCOW (Agencies): Russia’s first-ever wheeled self-propelled howitzer, the 2S43 Malva, has successfully completed trials and will enter service, Director of Uralvagonzavod Aleksandr Potapov said on Wednesday.The weapon has been described…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): The US State Department has said a potential North Korean satellite launch would violate international restrictions placed on the DPRK. The statement came after North Korean media revealed…

BEIJING (Agencies): China will increase flights to and from the five countries of Central Asia in a bid to strengthen regional connectivity and economic exchanges, according to the Civil Aviation…

LONDON (Agencies): The prime ministers of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, Rishi Sunak and Mark Rutte, have agreed to build an “international coalition” to provide fighter jet support for…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): The United States on Tuesday announced charges in five cases involving alleged efforts to steal technology to benefit China, Russia and Iran including a former Apple Inc. engineer…

MOSCOW (Agencies): A precision strike by a Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missile has destroyed a Patriot air defense system in Kiev, the Defense Ministry in Moscow reported on Tuesday. The Ukrainian…

BEIJING (APP): The Suki Kinari Hydropower project in the northwestern part of Pakistan achieved the dam capping on Monday, marking it entering a new construction stage. The successful capping of…

RAMALLAH (WAFA) – Ola Awad, President of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), said today that 75 years since the Palestinian Nakba, the number of Palestinians worldwide has doubled…

ISLAMABAD (APP): Pakistan’s ace climber, Sajid Ali Sadpara, made history when on Sunday he climbed the world’s tallest peak, Mount Everest (8848m) solo without using supplemental oxygen and taking personal…

LONDON (Agencies): British defense contractor BAE Systems is assessing the scope of repairs needed following an alleged act of sabotage on the Royal Navy’s newest frigate, which is still under…

Kyauktaw, Myanmar (Agencies): Cyclone Mocha crashed ashore in Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, uprooting trees, scattering flimsy homes in Rohingya displacement camps and bringing a storm surge into low-lying…

LAHORE (Agencies): Pakistan will make a trip Down Under later in the year to take on Australia for the Benaud-Qadir Trophy. The three Tests – part of the third World…

BEIJING (APP): The first international seminar on “China-Pakistan Science and Technology Enterprises Cooperation” was held in the recently established China-Pakistan Science and Technology Cooperation Center, Beijing. The seminar, participated by…

Baghdad (Agencies): A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been established by Visa, a global leader in payments technology, Blue Pay, an Iraqi financial technology business, and Wayl, an e-commerce platform…

BEIJING (Agencies): Rumors about visa suspension for Chinese tour groups are “groundless,” the Italian embassy in Beijing said in a statement Saturday afternoon. The embassy has so far been receiving…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): A leading American company in import, manufacture and supply of sea salt plans to invest nearly $200 million in curating, processing, distributing and importing Pink Himalayan Salt, which…

Berlin (AFP/APP): Germany is preparing a new weapons package for Ukraine worth 2.7 billion euros, reportedly Berlin’s largest since its conflict started with Russia last year, the defence ministry said…

ISLAMABAD (APP): The Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, which made the controversial and anti-Muslim film ‘The Kerala Story’ tax-free, has the record of second highest cases of missing women in…

ANKARA (Agencies): The national flag carrier, Turkish Airlines, will order nearly 600 aircraft in the next decade, according to the Airline’s Board and Executive Committee Chairman, Anadolu News Agency reports.Speaking…

TEL AVIV (Agencies): The Israeli High-Tech Association, this week, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a Korean cyber-security industry group during a visit to Israel by a Korean delegation, according…

BEIRUT (Agencies): Syrian intelligence on Friday detained Beirut’s Civil Defense chief for four hours after he crossed overland into the country en route to Egypt.Walid Hashash, 57, director-general of the…

LONDON (Agencies): A team of astronomers have identified what they believe to be the largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed. Located billions of light years away in outer space, the blast…

MOSCOW (Agencies): A Russian two-seat Mi-28 attack helicopter has crashed in northern Crimea, the country’s Defense Ministry stated on Friday. Both pilots died in the incident, it added. The aircraft came down…

MAKKAH: No one likes laundry day – but spare a thought for those responsible for the carpets in the Grand Mosque in Makkah.One of Islam’s holiest sites, the mosque has…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had unannounced meetings with Wang Yi, the head of the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Affair Committee, in Vienna on Wednesday and…

London (AFP/APP): British businessman Mike Lynch has been extradited to the United States to stand trial over an alleged multi-billion-dollar fraud linked to the 2011 sale of software firm Autonomy…

BRASILIA (Agencies): Brazil’s Embraer inaugurated its Saab F-39E Gripen final assembly line on 9 May in Gavião Peixoto, State of São Paulo, where it will assemble 15 of the multimission…

TEL AVIV (Agencies): A major state-run Israeli defence company has purchased a Greek defence company, expanding Israel’s arms sector reach further into Europe. According to Greece’s AMNA news agency, the Greek company,…

ANKARA (Agencies): A three-day international competition featuring sniffer dogs from several countries is underway in Turkiye’s capital, Ankara, Anadolu News Agency reports. The event, which began on Tuesday, has 10 dogs from…

LONDON (Agencies): A baby has been born with the DNA of three people for the first time in the UK, following the use of a pioneering form of in vitro…

Paris (AFP/APP): Scientists on Wednesday unveiled the first draft of a human “pangenome”, a more diverse and accurate DNA blueprint for our species that they hope will help shed light…

Washington (AFP/APP): US President Joe Biden will host India’s Narendra Modi for a state visit in June, it was announced Wednesday, as Washington courts New Delhi as a bulwark against…

El Paso (AFP/APP): Before turning himself in to US border officials in El Paso on Wednesday, Juan Fernandez sent a farewell text message to his wife in Venezuela.He then wiped…

Khartoum (AFP/APP): Fighting raged in the Sudanese capital and a city to the south Wednesday, residents said, pushing more people to undertake dangerous journeys to safety across the country’s borders.Those…

Gaza City (AFP/APP): Israel’s army and Gaza militants traded heavy cross-border fire Wednesday, with 22 Palestinians killed over two days amid the worst escalation of violence to hit the coastal…

Mountain View (AFP/APP): Google on Wednesday said it is opening Bard, a rival to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT, to 180 countries as it expands its use of artificial intelligence across its platform.Executives…

UNITED NATIONS (APP): A “silent emergency” that is claiming one million tiny lives born premature each year requires concerted action to swiftly improve children’s health and survival, according to a…

ISTANBUL (AA/APP): China and New Zealand on Wednesday held a military dialogue, Beijing said.It was the 11th strategic dialogue between the two militaries, held in Xi’an city, capital of Shaanxi…

Sydney (AFP/APP): Australia’s kangaroos could die in “catastrophic” numbers if a population boom is left unchecked, ecologists have warned, while backing the industrial-scale culling of the marsupials.To outsiders, the kangaroo…

HARARE (Xinhua/APP): The Zimbabwean government on Tuesday lifted all measures that it had put in place to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic after the World Health Organization (WHO)…

BISHKEK (Xinhua/APP): The National Bank of Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday put into circulation banknotes of 200, 500 and 1,000 som denominations of the new fifth series of the national currency.The National…

Wellington (AFP/APP): New Zealand police said on Wednesday they had recovered the body of a teen killed during a “tragic” school caving trip that is now the subject of a…

Los Angeles (AFP/APP): Robert De Niro has become a father again at the age of 79, the “Raging Bull” actor said in a recent interview.Double-Oscar winner De Niro corrected an…

BEIRUT: Airstrikes over southern Syria early Monday killed one of the country’s most well-known drug dealers, an opposition war monitor and a pro-government radio station reported.The rare attack came days…

TEL AVIV (Agencies): The Anonymous Sudan hacker group has said it hacked Israel’s missile defence systems, including for the Iron Dome, during daylong exchange of fire between Israel and resistance…

OTTAWA (Agencies): Canada is hoping to join the US-led AUKUS military alliance alongside Australia and the UK, the Globe and Mail has reported, noting the government would like to participate…

Moscow (AFP/APP): President Vladimir Putin is set to preside Tuesday over Victory Day celebrations overshadowed by Russia’s battlefield failures in Ukraine, confrontation with the West and fear of new attacks…

Shanghai (AFP/APP): China said Tuesday it was expelling Canada’s consul in Shanghai in a tit-for-tat move after Ottawa said it was sending home a Chinese diplomat accused of trying to…

New Delhi (AFP/APP): Two people on the ground died after a Russian-made MiG-21 military aircraft crashed into a house in India on Monday, police said.“Pilot has been rescued safely. The…

Baghdad (Agencies): The spokesperson of the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Yahya Rasoul, announced on Sunday that the Iraqi forces received the first batch of the Pakistani aircraft, Super…

TEL AVIV (Agencies): — Israel Aerospace Industries has developed a new unmanned submarine, the BlueWhale, designed for covert intelligence-gathering operations, the company said.The underwater vehicle is almost 11 meters long…

BAGHDAD (Agencies): The Iraqi military has significantly increased the number of hours its intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft are flying, according to the latest quarterly report from the US…

Mongomo (Janes/Agencies): Israeli company Sparta Security Solutions is training special forces personnel in Equatorial Guinea. This was revealed when Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue – President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo’s…

NEW DELHI (Eur Asian Times/Agencies): India, which has been lapping up cheap Russian oil for domestic consumption as well as export as refined commodities, hasn’t been compensating Russia for its…

ALBERTA (Agencies): Alberta has announced a state of emergency as wildfires flare across the Canadian province, forcing 25,000 people to flee their homes in what a top official said was…

CAIRO (Agencies): Foreign ministers from Arab League member states have agreed to reinstate Syria’s membership after its suspension more than 10 years ago, according to Iraqi state media.The ministers voted…

DUBAI (Agencies): US Dutch Palestinian supermodel Gigi Hadid took to Instagram to celebrate US fashion designer Jeremy Scott, who stepped down from his role as the creative director of Italian…

Moscow (AFP/APP): Russian paramilitary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said Sunday he had received “a promise” of more ammunition from the Russian army, after he threatened to pull his frontline Wagner troops…

Bratislava (AFP/APP): Slovakia’s Prime Minister Eduard Heger said Sunday he has tendered the resignation of his caretaker government amid a rumbling political crisis.MPs in the EU and NATO member country…

London (AFP/APP): Tens of thousands of street parties were planned on Sunday as Britain celebrated the coronation of King Charles III ahead of a concert for 20,000 people at Windsor…

INCHEON, South Korea (APP): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has suggested Pakistan to provide targeted subsidies to mitigate inflationary pressure on people; bring about necessary structural reforms and enhance tax…

Hanoi (AFP/APP): Vietnam has reported a record-high temperature, with climate experts warning such extreme weather events would continue.The country’s scientists have warned that global warming is exacerbating adverse weather, with…

ALLEN – TEXAS (Agencies): A man opened fire at a shopping mall in Allen, Texas on Saturday afternoon, killing eight people and wounding seven, officials have reported. The shooter was…

BEIJING (Agencies): China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has approved China Mobile’s trial of 5G air-to-ground (5G-ATG) technology, which enables users to access the internet on planes, the…

ISLAMABAD (Agencies): Pakistan is likely to pay for shipments of crude oil from Russia in Chinese yuan, local media reported on Saturday, citing government sources. The first cargo of 750,000…

Imphal, India, (AFP/APP): The death toll after ethnic clashes in India’s remote northeast rose to 54 on Saturday, with fresh violence overnight despite authorities rushing in troops to restore order.Thousands…

Moscow (AFP/APP): The chief of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner on Saturday asked Moscow to let him hand over his positions in the flashpoint Ukraine city of Bakhmut to Chechen…

London (AFP/APP): Charles III was crowned monarch of the United Kingdom and 14 Commonwealth realms on Saturday at Britain’s first coronation for 70 years, during a ceremony steeped in a…

ROME (Agencies): An Italian expert claims the mystery behind the Mona Lisa has finally been solved, as the bridge that Leonardo da Vinci painted in the background of the picture…

DUBAI (Agencies): The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and its member states are set to implement a unified visa for tourists and businesspeople from dozens of countries, in an initiative comparable…

TEL AVIV (Agencies): The failure rate of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system is causing concern among the Israeli military commanders. Resistance groups in Gaza fired a barrage of 22…

PARIS (Agencies): Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani called off a planned trip to France on Thursday, accusing French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin of “insulting” his country by criticizing Prime Minister…

KYIV (Reuters) – Russia said on Thursday that the United States was behind an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin aiming to kill President Vladimir Putin, and air raid sirens…

UNITED NATIONS (APP): The 45th session of the United Nations Committee on Information ended Thursday, with Pakistani envoy Aamir Khan, who presided over it, making a unity call to promote…

MOSCOW (Agencies): Ukraine launched two drone attacks overnight intended to strike the Kremlin residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, his office has reported.The aircraft were downed using measures designed to…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): The US Air Force is forging ahead with its plan to retire the storied U-2 Dragon Lady spy aircraft in fiscal 2026, as part of a years long…

NEW YORK (CNN/Agencies): In a statement shared with CNN on Tuesday, Costner’s representative Arnold Robinson said that “circumstances beyond his control have transpired which have resulted in Mr. Costner having…

BELGRADE (Agencies): A seventh-grade student opened fire inside Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School in Serbia’s capital Belgrade on Wednesday morning, killing eight children and a security guard, the country’s Interior Ministry…

BEIJING (Agencies): Northern Theatre Command (NTC) of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has inducted several ground force components including ZBL-09 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), ZSL-10 armoured personnel carriers (APCs), and…

Singapore (Janes/Agencies): The Singapore Army has selected American firearms manufacturer Colt’s Infantry Automatic Rifle 6940 (IAR6940) as the new section automatic weapon (SAW) to replace in-service ST Engineering’s 5.56 mm…

LONDON (Agencies): BP has paid around $1 billion in taxes on its UK North Sea profits since the so-called windfall tax was introduced in May 2022, according to estimates from…

WASHINGTON (Agencies) — Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S.…

KIGALI (Agencies): At least 95 people have been killed in western Rwanda in flooding triggered by heavy rains.“Flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains last night in Western Province has…

NEW YORK (Agencies): Dutch Moroccan Egyptian model Imaan Hammam shut down the Met Gala carpet this week wearing a white dress by Irish designer Michael Stewart’s label Standing Ground. The…

KABUL: The Taliban said on Monday they were not in a hurry to give China access to Afghanistan’s lithium reserves, despite an offer to pay for access to the rich…

NEW YORK (Agencies): Coca-Cola Co. investors voted Tuesday against a proposal seeking a report on how abortion restrictions impact the beverage company’s business.The proposal, filed by As You Sow, asked…

NEW YORK (Agencies): The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said the US dollar is gradually losing its status as the world’s main reserve currency.Speaking on Monday,…

MOSCOW (Agencies): The Russian military has launched a large-scale missile attack against Ukraine’s military industry, disrupting production of weaponry and munitions, the Defense Ministry said on Monday.“Tonight, the Russian Armed…

ISLAMABAD (APP): Indian media propaganda against Pakistan with respect to a viral photo of a grave with iron grille was exposed when it was revealed that the photo was from…

SEOUL (BBC/Agencies): A South Korean art student ate a banana that was part of an installation by artist Maurizio Cattelan, saying he was “hungry” after skipping breakfast.The artwork called “Comedian”,…

NEW YORK (BBC/Agencies): The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) confirmed in a statement that First Republic Bank had collapsed on Monday.Investment banking giant JP Morgan will take on all of…

RIYADH: The chief content officer for WWE, Paul Levesque, better known by his ring name Triple H, has revealed that a new World Heavyweight Championship will be added to the…

TEL AVIV (Agencies): Suicide rates among the Israeli military are on the rise, presenting a “dangerous and daunting” challenge, warned Lieutenant- General Herzi Halevi according to a report published by…

ANKARA (Agencies): The leader of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), Abu Hussein al-Qurashi, has allegedly been killed in an operation by Türkiye’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) in Syria, becoming the…

Moscow (AFP/APP): Russian couturier Viacheslav “Slava” Zaitsev, known by his admirers as the “Red Dior”, has died at the age of 85, a spokeswoman for his fashion house in Moscow…

TORONTO (Agencies): As Canada’s largest strike by federal workers approaches its third week, thousands of people are in immigration limbo amid canceled hearings and stalled applications, which could make it…

OSLO (Agencies): The nationalization plan would provide Norway with greater control over its critical infrastructure. Standing in the way of an immediate nationalization are existing concessions, which aren’t due to…

BEIJING (Global Times/Agencies): China will firmly oppose new US policy to restrict investment in China if related reports are true, Shu Jueting, spokesperson from China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) told…

BAKHMUT (Agencies): The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force threatens to withdraw his troops from the key battle for Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine as casualty rates mount while Ukraine’s military…

ANKARA (Agencies): Turkish defence firm Baykar aims to begin production of its new unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) next year which is already attracting international interest, its chairman Selcuk Bayraktar…

NEW DELHI (Agencies): India must boost its defensive and offensive capabilities in the space domain, as the “future lies in having space-based platforms,” Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari told…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): China has resumed construction work on a military base in the United Arab Emirates in defiance of displeasure by the United States, leaked intelligence documents have revealed.According to…

BEIJING (APP): To celebrate the National Day of Pakistan and the Year of Tourism Exchanges between Pakistan and China, a Pakistani Truck Art Debut Exhibition themed Phool Patti: Jingle Journey…

TEHRAN (Agencies): Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, will visit Damascus next week, a senior regional source close to the Syrian government told Reuters on Friday. The visit will be the first…

ISLAMABAD (APP): The World Health Organization (WHO) has been working and investigating with the Government of Pakistan on Monkeypox, as the situation is still evolving. In a statement on Monkeypox,…

Dubai (AFP/APP): The United Arab Emirates’ first gaming resort will open in four years and cost $3.9 billion to build, US casino operator Wynn has said, unveiling new details of…

MOSCOW (Reuters): Russian Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, who was sanctioned by the West and dubbed the “Butcher of Mariupol” for his role in the Ukraine war, has been removed as…

NEW YORK (Agencies): President Joe Biden’s administration is preparing for a possible nuclear attack in Ukraine by wiring the country with a network of sensors that can identify the origin…

KHARTOUM (MME?Agencies): The whereabouts of Sudan’s former president Omar al-Bashir are in doubt after thousands of inmates escaped from Kober prison, the high security facility he has been detained in…

LONDON (Agencies): Archaeologists using Google Earth have made a ‘spectacular’ find of three Roman military camps in the Arabian desert that could change understanding of the region’s history.The discovery, by…

DOHA (Agencies): Eight former Indian naval personnel are currently facing trial in Qatar on charges of espionage. They are accused of gathering intelligence on Qatar’s secret project to acquire high-tech…

LONDON (Reuters) – The anti-tank ditches near Ukraine’s occupied southeastern town of Polohy stretch for 30 km (19 miles). Behind are rows of concrete “dragon’s teeth” barricades. Further back are…

CHENGDU (Xinhua/APP): Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, on Wednesday set up an aircraft lifecycle service center in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu.As Airbus’ first aircraft lifecycle service center outside…

Miami (AFP/APP): Disney on Wednesday sued Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, alleging his administration’s takeover of its theme park district is part of “a targeted campaign of government retaliation” for its…

Washington (AFP/APP): US Republicans voted Wednesday to raise the national borrowing limit, but only in conjunction with drastic cuts, as they sought a showdown with President Joe Biden over “excessive”…

Rio de Janeiro (AFP/APP): A Brazilian court on Wednesday ordered the countrywide suspension of messaging app Telegram after its parent company failed to provide data sought by authorities on neo-Nazis…

Colorado Springs (AFP/APP): The US company Orbit Fab is aiming to produce the go-to “gas stations” in space, its CEO tells AFP, hoping its refuelling technology will make the surging…

Paris (AFP/APP): A devastating drought that has struck the Horn of Africa could not have occurred without global warming, according to a new report released on Thursday from an international…

Seattle (Agencies): Four patients at a downtown Seattle hospital are dead in connection to an outbreak of a bacteria often found in health care settings that has developed resistance to…

TEHRAN (Agencies): The CEO of the Iranian Defense Ministry’s Electronics Industries, Rear Admiral Amir Rastegari, claimed hacking two spy aircraft by EW (electronic warfare) systems near the country’s borders.“Some time…

MILAN — The Romanian Ministry of National Defense has awarded the Turkish defense firm Baykar a $321 million contract for the purchase of TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles, according to recently…

BANGKOK (Agencies): A Chinese-built amphibious assault ship ordered by Thailand arrived at its homeport in the country’s south a week after it was officially handed over to its new owner…

SYDNEY (Agencies): Australia proposed on Thursday overhauling its immigration system to speed up getting highly skilled workers into the country and smoothening the path to permanent residency.The federal Labor government…

KHARTOUM (CNN): As the crisis in Sudan continues to unfold, there is mounting anger among Americans who feel abandoned by the US government and left to navigate the complicated and…

KATHMANDU (Agencies): Nepal has issued permits for a record 463 climbers so far for this spring season’s expeditions to Mount Everest even as experts worry about dangerous overcrowding at the…

ABUJA (Agencies): The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) announced this week that its flagship Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline project is almost complete. The $2.8 billion project, which aims to greatly enhance…

BEIJING (Agencies): China marked its eighth Space Day on Monday, with a grand opening ceremony held in Hefei, capital of East China’s Anhui Province. At the event which also kick-started…

NEW DELHI (Agencies): Indian foreign minister S. Jaishankar is on an official visit to Guyana, Panama, Colombia and the Dominican Republic to boost economic ties with the Latin American and…

BEIJING (Agencies): Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, kickstarting his four-day official visit to China in a bid to boost the defense partnership between the…

Washington (AFP/APP): British American Tobacco has agreed to pay more than $600 million to settle allegations that it violated US sanctions on North Korea, the US Justice Department announced on…

Washington (AFP/APP): US President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday he will seek re-election in 2024 and “finish the job,” plunging at the record age of 80 into a ferocious campaign…

Geneva (AFP/APP): Fighters have occupied a national public laboratory in Sudan holding samples of diseases including polio and measles, creating an “extremely, extremely dangerous” situation, the World Health Organization warned…

New York (AFP/APP): Harry Belafonte, the superstar entertainer who introduced a Caribbean flair to mainstream US music and became well known for his deep personal investment in civil rights, died…

Singapore (AFP/APP): The United Nations Human Rights Office pressed Singapore on Tuesday to “urgently reconsider” its scheduled execution of a man over one kilogram of cannabis.Singaporean Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, is…

TOKYO (Agencies): Tokyo-based Ispace Inc. said it could not confirm if its spacecraft successfully landed on the moon. The company’s chief executive said it assumed the landing failed.It was poised…

MANILA (Agencies): President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Tuesday approved the 90-day extension of the mandatory SIM registration beyond the April 26 deadline.According to the video posted by Radio Television…

NEW YORK (Agencies): The iOS 17 update that Apple plans to show off in June will include several new health-related features, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. There will be a…

BEIJING (APP): China and India held the 18th round of Corps Commander Level Meeting, a move Chinese experts said on Monday showed that the border issue is shifting from a…

Mamoudzou, France (AFP/APP): France on Monday refused to halt a controversial planned operation to expel migrants from its Indian Ocean island territory of Mayotte, despite opposition from neighbouring Comoros and…

Washington (AFP/APP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Sudan’s warring generals had agreed to a three-day ceasefire starting Tuesday (2200 GMT Monday) after previous bids to pause the…

RAWALPINDI (APP): Mark Chapman hit a blazing unbeaten ton to propell New Zealand to a six-wicket win against Pakistan at the Pindi Cricket Stadium on Monday night. The win also…

JAKARTA (Agencies): The Bank of Indonesia will launch its domestic card payment system in May as part of a strategy to reduce dependency on foreign systems and protect transactions from…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): U.S. forces need a lot of things to make sure China can’t conquer Taiwan, but they don’t need anything that’s going to Ukraine, the commander of Indo-Pacific Command…

OTTAWA (Agencies): Male Canadian lawmakers of the Trudeau government in Canada have decided to stand up for women… albeit in a slightly idiosyncratic way and with a few additional inches…

LONDON (Agencies): The British security services sent a UK national to infiltrate a jihadist camp on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border despite concerns about his mental wellbeing, The Times reported on Saturday,…

NEW DELHI (Agencies): India and Bangladesh are moving away from using the US dollar in bilateral trade, the Bangladesh-based news website The Business Standard reported this week.According to the report,…

AMMAN (Agencies): Israel has arrested Jordanian MP Imad Odwan for allegedly trying to smuggle weapons and gold into the occupied West Bank.Reports circulated on social media said that Israeli authorities…

ZURICH (Agencies): More than $68 billion was withdrawn from Credit Suisse in the first three months of 2023, the bank said Monday in what are likely its final quarterly results…

CANBERRA (Agencies): Australia has said the acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines, long-range strike capabilities and its northern bases will be among the country’s six priority areas after a major review of…

KHARTOUM (Agencies)” Foreign nations are rushing to get their citizens out of Sudan as rival military factions battle in the capital Khartoum where millions of residents are trapped inside their…

BEIJING (Global Times/Agencies): China is eyeing completing a gigawatt-level space-based power station, the Global Times learned from the Chinese Society of Astronautics space solar power commission on Sunday. “Scale-wise, China’s…

MOSCOW (Agencies): Russia’s former Roscosmos chief, Dimitri Rogozin, who now leads the “Tsar’s Wolves” (A team of military experts who provide “technical assistance” to troops in Donbas), stated in a…

TOKYO (Agencies): A panel in Japan’s health ministry has approved the country’s first abortion pill, in a major step for reproductive rights decades after other countries made abortion medication widely…

NAIROBI (Agencies): Kenyan police have uncovered the bodies of another 26 people believed to be members of a cult, bringing to 47 the number of corpses linked to the movement…

BAGHDAD (Agencies): Iraq’s defense minister sacked the commander and the director of intelligence of Taji military camp over negligence and corruption, Iraqi state media reported early Sunday.The decision came after…

BAKHMUT (Agencies): The chief of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said his men fighting in the flashpoint eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut would kill rival soldiers and take no…

CANBERRA (Agencies): Deep-sea explorers have found the wreck of a Japanese transport ship which sank off the Philippines, killing nearly 1,000 Australian troops and civilians in World War Two.It was…

NEW DELHI (Agencies): Self-styled preacher Amritpal Singh, whose calls for Sikh independence riled India’s authorities, has been arrested in Punjab state, police say.The 30-year-old had been on the run for…

Baghdad (Agencies): Bangen Rekani, Iraq’s Minister of Construction, Housing, Municipalities, and Public Works, has confirmed a scheme to construct a national data center for land management. This statement came as…

LONDON (Agencies): Thousands of protesters descended on Britain’s Parliament on Saturday as part of a four-day action, billed “The Big One”, designed to “highlight the environmental failures” of government.Environmental group…

KAMPALA (Agencies): Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni attended a ceremony on 18 April to mark the completion of the first helicopter overhaul at a new facility in the country.Ugandan television showed…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): United States embassy staff and their families have been evacuated by US forces from Sudan’s war-torn capital Khartoum, President Joe Biden said, as fighting between the Sudanese army…

MOSCOW (Agencies): Russia is switching to national currencies in energy trade with foreign partners, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Saturday in an interview with the Russia-1 TV channel.According…

NEW YORK (Agencies): Filming on Alec Baldwin’s Western movie Rust is resuming on Thursday, 18 months after the fatal on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin, who has pleaded not…

LONDON (Agencies): British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has resigned amid a scandal over alleged bullying in the Ministry of Justice, which he headed as secretary, and in other departments…

OHIO (Agencies): Two men were sentenced on Friday for conspiring to attack US electric substations in a plot motivated by white supremacy and intended to sow civil unrest and economic…

MOSCOW (Agencies): Russia has appointed new commanders of both its Baltic and Pacific fleets, the state-run Interfax news agency reported Friday, citing sources.Admiral Viktor Liina, the former commander of Russia’s…

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Agencies): Iran on Thursday said its navy forced a United States submarine approaching the Strait of Hormuz to surface and not re-submerge as it crossed the Persian…

Michigan (Agencies): Two cities in the US state of Michigan have made Eid Al Fitr a paid holiday for city employees, as Muslims across America vie for more visibility.Hamtramck and…

Hong Kong (Agencies): Jack Ma, founder of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, has been made an honorary professor of business at a top Hong Kong university, the school announced Friday.The appointment…

BRASILIA (Agencies): A large mosquito factory, where about five billion insects will be biologically modified to help tackle the disease, is to be built in South America.After years of research,…

TEHRAN (Agencies): A woman has been arrested in central Iran’s Qazvin city for allegedly taking photos and videos of poisoned schoolgirls and sending them to foreign “hostile media”, Anadolu News…

NEW DELHI (Agencies): An Indian court on Thursday acquitted 69 Hindus, including a former minister from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), of the murder of 11 Muslims during communal…

ISLAMABAD (Agencies): Pakistan has placed its first-ever order for Russian crude as it seeks cheaper energy options in the face of macroeconomic challenges, the country’s petroleum minister, Musadik Malik, announced.Under…

ISLAMABAD (Agencies):- Huawei kicked off its 20th annual Global Analyst Summit (HAS) today in Shenzhen. The summit was attended by more than 1,000 industry analysts, financial analysts, key opinion leaders,…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): U.S. Central Command is hiring an AI advisor from Google to accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies across U.S. military services in the Middle East, Defense One has…

BEIJING (Agencies): The death toll has risen to 29 after a fire on Tuesday at Beijing’s Changfeng hospital. A preliminary investigation found the cause to be electric sparks caused by…

AHMEDABAD (Agencies): A court in India’s western state of Gujarat on Thursday rejected Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s petition seeking a stay of conviction in a defamation case, fueling uncertainty over…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): The US Department of Defense announced on Tuesday that it will give Ukraine another $325 million worth of arms and ammunition. Compared to earlier packages, the latest shipment…

SANAA (Agencies): At least 78 people have been killed in a stampede at a charity event in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, on Wednesday. The country has been ravaged by 14…

TEL AVIV: (Agencies): An entire Israeli army battalion from the Golani Brigade laid down their arms and walked out of training on Tuesday in protest against leadership reshuffle, Israeli media…

ISLAMABAD (APP): In another Islamophobic diatribe, Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati, a Hindu militant priest, notorious for hate-mongering and misogynist speeches, has once again spit venom against Muslims, now urging his followers…

A new COVID-19 sub-variant has been catching the attention of the World Health Organization. This omicron variant, XBB.1.16, otherwise known as “Arcturus”Trusted Source causes patients to exhibit many of the…

Khartoum (CNN/AGencies): Residents in the Sudanese capital Khartoum woke up Monday to the sounds of artillery and bombardment by warplanes, as intense fighting continued for a third day and the…

KYIV (Agencies/Eura Asian Times): Ukraine’s air defense system is facing a critical challenge, as leaked Pentagon documents suggest that it may be unable to counter the threat posed by Russian…

Antakya (agencies): Following February’s devastating earthquake in Türkiye, the first people began moving into tented accommodation provided by NATO on Monday (10 April 2023). Located in Antakya, the temporary relief…

BEIJING (JANES / Agencies) The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has deployed weapons and equipment – including multiple launch rocket systems (MLRSs), air-defense missiles, command vehicles, and ammunition supply vehicles –…

TEHRAN (Agencies): Iranian authorities have shut down more than 150 commercial establishments over a 24-hour period for failing to enforce hijab laws, police said yesterday. The closures came a day…

MOSCOW (Agencies): President Vladimir Putin personally greeted China’s State Councilor and Defense Minister Li Shangfu in the Kremlin on Sunday, alongside his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoigu. The defense chief, who…

Ouagadougou (AFP/APP): At least 32 defence volunteers and 10 soldiers have died in suspected militants attacks in insurgency-hit northern Burkina Faso, officials said on Sunday.A detachment of soldiers and the…

KAMPALA (Xinhua/APP): Thousands of people took part in a Sunday marathon in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, aimed at promoting HIV/AIDS awareness as the country expects to end the scourge…

KUNMING, April 16 (Xinhua/APP) –: More than 1,400 people, including firefighters and militia personnel, are racing against time to douse a forest fire raging in southwest China’s Yunnan Province.The fire…

WASHINGTON (APP): The Kashmir Diaspora Coalition (KDC) and its six international affiliate advocacy organizations Sunday called on the leaders of Group of 20, an economic cooperation bloc comprising 19 industrialized…

KARUIZAWA, Japan (Xinhua): The Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers gathered Sunday in the central Japanese resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, as people took part in demonstrations to protest…

LONDON (AA/APP): Rejecting a pay offer from the government, nurses in England on Friday announced they will go on a 48-hour strike from April 30 to May 2.“What has been…

BEIJING (Agencies): China says it carried out a successful ground-based mid-course missile interception test in an apparent sign of progress in its ability to bring down weapons incoming from space.The…

ANHARA (Agencies): Turkiye strongly condemned the recurrence of a “vile attack” on the Muslim Holy Book, the Quran, and a Turkish flag in Denmark, Anadolu News Agency reports.“It is unacceptable…

TEL AVIV (Agencies): The past week has seen a wave of significant cyber attacks against both the Israel Post as well as irrigation systems in the North of Israel.The Israel…

TOKYO (Agencies): A loud blast was heard during Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s visit to the port city of Wakayama on Saturday, creating chaos as the crowd attempted to flee.…

LONDON (Agencies): Drivers will be able to legally let go of their steering wheels for the first time on British roads after Ford introduced a hands-free system to its electric…

KOLKATA (Agencies): The Kolkata metro’s newest line, set to open to the public in November, passes underneath the Hooghly River in the city’s northeast, with the tunnel 32 meters (105…

Jakarta (AFP/APP): A strong 7.0-magnitude earthquake was recorded in the sea north of the main Indonesian island of Java, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said on Friday, with no immediate…

LONDON (Agencies): According to an intelligence update from Britain on Friday, Ukrainian troops have been compelled to retreat from certain territory in the city of Bakhmut, as Russia has launched…

SYDNEY (Reuters): A tropical cyclone smashed into Australia’s northwest coast as a category 5 storm, setting new wind speed records, but has largely spared populated regions including the world’s largest…

TOKYO (Reuters): Japan on Friday approved a plan to build the country’s first casino in the western city of Osaka, paving the way for a 1.8 trillion yen ($13.5 billion)…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): A 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, named Jack Teixeira, has been arrested by the FBI on suspicion of being linked to…

Castro County (Agencies): Local authorities have reported that approximately 18,000 cows were killed in an explosion at the South Fork Dairy farm near the town of Dimmitt, Texas earlier this…

RIYADH (News Agencies): Iran’s embassy in Saudi Arabia opened its gates on Wednesday for the first time in seven years as the restoration of full diplomatic ties between the two…

Shanghai (AFP/APP): President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva promised Thursday that “Brazil is back!” during a state visit to China aimed at strengthening trade ties and winning support for his…

SEOUL (Xinhua/APP): South Korea’s top court on Thursday finalized a 1.03 trillion won (about 760 million U.S. dollars) fine imposed by the country’s antitrust regulator on U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm for…

LONDON (Reuters) – Junior doctors in Britain began a four-day strike over pay on Tuesday that is likely to cause unprecedented disruption to the state-funded National Health Service (NHS), prompting…

KUWAIT CITY (Agencies): Kuwait News has unveiled its new computerised news anchor, in a step which is amongst the world’s first manifestations of artificial intelligence news casting.In a video posted…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): Egypt is revealed to have been planning to provide Russia with tens of thousands of rockets, in a move which would have seen it aid Moscow in its…

BEIJING (APP): Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang will be attending the fourth foreign ministers’ meeting of neighboring countries of Afghanistan in Samarkand, Uzbekistan from April 12 to…

Washington (AFP/APP): The International Monetary Fund slightly lowered its outlook for the global economy on Tuesday, while predicting that most countries will avoid a recession this year despite economic worries…

Addis Ababa (AFP/APP): Humanitarian charity Catholic Relief Services (CRS) said two of its staff were shot dead at the weekend in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia, which has witnessed…

UNITED NATIONS (APP): The United Nations has launched an operational review in Afghanistan, and told national staff to remain at home, following the decision by the Taliban de facto authorities…

Bangkok (AFP/APP): Dozens of people in Myanmar’s central region were killed in air strikes Tuesday, according to local media reports and a witness contacted by AFP, as the United Nations…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): Apple executive Doug Beck will serve as the next director of the Defense Innovation Unit, or DIU, the Pentagon’s hub for accelerating the development of commercial technologies for…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): The U.S. is sending anti-drone missiles as part of an experimental platform to help Ukraine down the Iranian-built drones that have devastated its energy infrastructure, according to representatives…

BEIJING (Agencies): The National Meteorological Center (NMC) issued a blue alert for sandstorms on Monday, warning residents that billowing dust is expected to hit more than a dozen of provinces…

NEW DELHI (Agencies): Emine Dzhaparova, Ukraine’s first deputy foreign minister, has arrived in India for a four-day visit, the first by a Ukrainian government minister since Russia’s full-scale invasion of…

– The Spike is a guided anti-tank missile used by many EU and NATO countries. TEL AVIV (Agencies): Israel signed a $400 million (1.44 billion shekels) deal to sell Spike…

WASHINGTON (Agencies): The global economic slowdown will continue this year, but Asia will remain “a bright spot,” says the International Monetary Fund (IMF).India and China will account for half of…

TUNIS (Agencies): Tunisia’s President Kais Saied stressed on Thursday that his country “is not for sale” and that national decisions must be “based on the will of the people.” He…

RIYADH (Agencies): A delegation representing Saudi Arabia and Oman is due to meet with the Houthi leadership in Sanaa next week to sign a permanent ceasefire ending the eight-year war…

Paris (AFP/APP): France-based Airbus said Friday that it had agreed to sell 50 helicopters to the Chinese leasing firm GDAT, a deal announced on the final day of President Emmanuel…

BEIJING (Agencies): In Book of Fan Shengzhi, the oldest agriculture book written around first century BC, Fan Shengzhi, the author and agronomist, said that “the essence of cultivation is to…

SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines (AP): Eight Filipinos were nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a gory Good Friday tradition that draws thousands of devotees and tourists to…

UNITED NATIONS (APP): The United Nations’ top humanitarian official in Afghanistan on Thursday warned that Taliban’s decision to ban women from working for the UN will have devastating consequences for…

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s president said on Tuesday he had written to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, urging him to help control shipments of fentanyl as he fended off…

Tokyo (AFP/APP): A Japanese military helicopter with 10 people on board disappeared from radar on Thursday near an island in the southern region of Okinawa, army officials said.The aircraft had…

Washington (AFP/APP): Central banks around the world should keep battling inflation by hiking interest rates despite ongoing concerns about financial stability, the head of the International Monetary Fund told AFP…

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Xi Jinping expressed willingness to speak to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the head of the EU said on Thursday, after French President Emmanuel Macron urged Beijing…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Internal Revenue Service plans to hire nearly 30,000 new employees and deploy new technology over the next two years as it ramps up an $80…

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s parliament on Thursday rejected a Supreme Court order to conduct provincial snap polls, in the latest move in a power struggle between the government and the…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday released a summary of after-action reports on the U.S.’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan that laid blame on his predecessor Donald Trump,…

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Two people died and more than a million were without power on Thursday after an ice storm hit Canada’s two most-populated provinces ahead of a holiday weekend,…

LUSAKA (Agencies): China and the US have reached an agreement to assist Zambia in resolving its debt burden of over $14 billion. Chinese Ambassador to Zambia Du Xiaohui and his…

JEDDAH (Agencies): The Admiral Gorshkov has become the first Russian warship to dock in Saudi Arabia. The vessel was on its way back to Russia when it stopped off at…

TEL AVIV (Agencies): The Israeli military launched airstrikes in Lebanon hours after it struck the Gaza Strip early Friday, Anadolu reports.In a statement, it said it struck targets belonging to…

ABUJA (Agencies): In a gruesome attack on a village in north-central Nigeria, at least 50 people were killed by gunmen in two separate incidents. The attack happened in Umogidi village…

BEIJING (Agencies): Airbus announced on Thursday it signed a 160 commercial aircraft purchase agreement with a Chinese partner, and it will open a second assembly line in Tianjin, further expanding…

NEW YORK (Agencies): Alina Habba, an Iraqi attorney and managing partner at New York law firm Habba Madaio and Associates, has been one of Donald Trump’s most vocal defenders in…

RIYADH (Agencies): Saudi Arabia and Iran formally restored diplomatic ties, agreed to resume flights between the two countries as well as facilitate the granting of visas to citizens, a joint…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Block Inc (SQ.N)-owned Cash App’s founder Bob Lee was stabbed to death in San Francisco on Tuesday, according to a Facebook post shared by his father.…

NEW YORK (APP): Former US President Donald Trump reportedly entered a plea of not guilty in Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and…

KAMPALA (News Agencies): The African continent should lead the way in “sav[ing] the world” from homosexuality, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared, as he prepares to sign into law an…

Geneva (AFP/APP): The Red Cross announced Tuesday that it would cut 1,500 jobs over the next 12 months in a drive to slash costs due to to a funding crunch.The…

ISLAMABAD (News Agencies): Pakistan has today denied reports of trade relations with Israel and has vowed to investigate any goods allegedly “exported” to the occupation state, with which Islamabad has…

BAKHMUT (News Agencies): The leader of the Russian private military company Wagner, Evgeny Prigozhin, has claimed victory in the battle for the city of Artyomovsk (also known as Bakhmut in…

Sydney (AFP/APP): A powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake shook a remote region of northwestern Papua New Guinea before dawn Monday, toppling a few homes but with no immediate reports of casualties.The quake…

LONDON (News Agencies): Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman on Sunday said the UK government was “in negotiations” after three British men were detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan.Media reports have…

ISLAMABAD (APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday expressed his pleasure over the reopening of Khunjerab Pass and said that it would help increase bilateral trade between Pakistan and…