Roadside bomb kills 4, wounds 10 in Pakistan
Islamabad, Jan 28 (PTI) A roadside bomb exploded in southwestern Pakistan's restive Balochistan province on Friday, killing at least four and wounding 10 people,...
Maintaining good relationship meets interests of both India and China: Chinese def min
SINGAPORE, 12 Jun: China and India are neighbours and maintaining a good relationship meets the interests of both countries, Chinese Defence Minister General Wei...
AI could help spread false and misleading information on Holocaust, UNESCO report warns
WASHINGTON, 18 Jun: A United Nations agency is warning that developments in artificial intelligence could spawn a new surge in Holocaust denial.
A report published...
Biden to visit ‘pariah’ Saudi Arabia and Israel next month
WASHINGTON , Jun 14 (AP) — President Joe Biden confirmed on Tuesday that he will visit Saudi Arabia next month for talks with leaders...
PEC urges Myanmar junta to release all detained scribes
GENEVA, 29 Jan: Expressing annoyance over the continued detention of over 40 journalists in Myanmar, Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and...
High Treason: Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky Moves Against Spies
Warsaw, Jul 20 (AFP): Ukraine's army is putting up fierce frontline resistance against Russian troops, but President Volodymyr Zelensky's shock dismissal of two top...
US, China remain vital engines of growth as global economic recovery ‘hobbled’, says IMF
Washington, Oct 5 (PTI) Observing that the global economic recovery remains "hobbled" due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on...
Israel battles Hamas militants as country’s death toll from mass incursion reaches 600
TEL AVIV, Israel, 8 Oct (AP) — Israeli soldiers battled Hamas fighters in the streets of southern Israel on Sunday and launched retaliation strikes...
Blinken wraps up frantic Mideast tour with tepid, if any, support for pauses in...
ANKARA, Turkey, 6 Nov (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up a grueling Middle East diplomatic tour on Monday in Turkey...
Saudi Arabia gives 4% of Aramco worth $80B to sovereign fund
Dubai, Feb 13 (AP) Saudi Arabia said Sunday it will transfer 4% of the stock in the state-run oil giant Aramco to a sovereign...
Suicide bombing in Islamabad kills 2 suspects and policeman
ISLAMABAD , Dec 23 (AP) — A powerful car bomb detonated near a residential area in Islamabad on Friday, killing two suspected militants and...
Fauci says omicron variant is `just raging around the world’
Wilmington, Dec 19 (AP) The COVID-19 omicron variant is just raging around the world, the White House's top medical adviser said on Sunday, and...
Israeli police launch manhunt after 6 prisoners break out
TEL AVIV, Israel , Sep 6 (AP) — Israeli forces on Monday launched a massive manhunt in northern Israel and the occupied West Bank...
SpaceX launching Saudi astronauts on private flight to space station
Cape Canaveral, May 21 (AP) SpaceX's next private flight to the International Space Station awaited takeoff Sunday, weather and rocket permitting.
The passengers include Saudi...
China sanctions 2 US citizens over action on Tibet
BEIJING , Dec 23 (AP) — China has sanctioned two U.S. citizens in retaliation for action taken by Washington over human rights abuses in...
Myanmar seeks to have Rohingya case thrown out of UN court
The Hague, Feb 21 (AP) Lawyers for Myanmar's military rulers on Monday sought to have a case at the United Nations' top court that...
Venezuela’s high court has suspended the opposition’s primary election process, including its result
CARACAS, Venezuela , 30 Oct (AP) — Venezuela’s high court on Monday suspended the opposition’s entire primary election process, including its result, in the...
Uyghur county in China has highest prison rate in the world
Beijing, May 16 (AP) Nearly one in 25 people in a county in the Uyghur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on...
Yemen rebels allow UN flights temporarily into Sanaa airport
Cairo, Dec 28 (AP) The Iran-backed rebels in Yemen said Tuesday they are temporarily allowing UN humanitarian flights to land at the airport in...