Pakistan, UN jointly appeal for USD 160 million to deal with catastrophic floods
Islamabad, Aug 30 (PTI) Grappling with unprecedented floods, the cash-strapped Pakistan government on Tuesday teamed up with the United Nations to issue a flash...
Israeli strikes kill 21 in Lebanon, including in a town with a dark history...
QANA, Lebanon, 16 Oct (AP) — Israeli airstrikes pounded areas across Lebanon, killing at least 21 people, officials said Wednesday, including more than a...
India calls for urgent reform of global institutions to reflect contemporary global reality
Kingstown, May 20 (PTI) President Ram Nath Kovind has called for an urgent reform of global institutions, with the UN Security Council at its...
Pak ready to hold peaceful, free and transparent polls on Feb 8: Information Minister...
Islamabad, 3 Feb: Pakistan's information minister Murtaza Solangi on Saturday said the caretaker government has made full security arrangements to conduct the general election...
Antony Blinken meets with China’s President Xi as US, China spar over bilateral and...
BEIJING, 26 Apr: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and senior Chinese officials, stressing the importance of...
UK’s Indian-origin anti-terror police chief to seek explanation for missed promotion
London, May 30 (PTI) Scotland Yard's Indian-origin Head of Counter-Terrorism Policing, Neil Basu, said he is disappointed with the way the process for a...
Sri Lankan court orders release of 21 Indian fishermen
Colombo, Feb 22 (PTI) The 21 Indian fishermen who were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy last month for allegedly poaching in the country's...
Cyprus rescues 60 Syrian migrants lost at sea for 6 days; several have been...
NICOSIA, 24 Jan: At least four people have been hospitalized after Cypriot police rescued 60 Syrian migrants found aboard a rickety wooden boat some...
Climate confab heads into final week, warming goal uncertain
SHARM EL-SHEIKH , Nov 15 (AP) — Global climate talks in Egypt headed into their second half on Monday with plenty of uncertainty left...
North Korea fires suspected long-range missile toward sea
Seoul, Mar 24 (AP) North Korea test-fired a suspected long-range missile toward the sea Thursday, its neighbours' militaries said.
The launch, which extended North Korea's...
Israel: Attack on bus in West Bank wounds 6 troops, civilian
JERUSALEM, 4 Sep: The Israeli military said that Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a bus in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, wounding six...
People will be led to reject politicians if PM Mahinda Rajapaksa does not quit:...
Colombo, Apr 30 (PTI) Sri Lanka's powerful Buddhist clergy on Saturday held a key convention here and warned that people would be influenced to...
3 Palestinian militants killed in Israeli West Bank raid; US slams latest settlement expansion
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Three Palestinian militants were killed in an Israeli army raid in a West Bank refugee camp early Monday, Palestinian...
Israel’s increased strikes across Gaza kill more than 700 people in the past day,...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip, 24 Oct (AP) — Rapidly expanding Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip killed more than 700 people in the past day...
India-China trade grows to record $ 125 billion in 2021 despite tensions in eastern...
BEIJING, 14 Jan: The India-China bilateral trade touched a record high of over USD 125 billion in 2021, crossing the USD 100 billion-mark in...
Pakistan dismisses UN human rights body’s concerns about violence, democratic freedom ahead of polls
Islamabad, Feb 7 (PTI) Pakistan on Wednesday dismissed UN human rights body concerns about violence and the right to fundamental democratic freedom ahead of...
Andrew Tate is charged with rape and human trafficking in Romania
BUCHAREST, Romania, 20 Jun (AP) — Divisive social media personality Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, have been charged with rape, human trafficking and...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard holds military drill amid tension
Tehran, Dec 20 (AP) Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard staged a major military exercise across the country's south on Monday amid heightened tensions over Tehran's...
9 border pillars along Nepal-India border swept away by rivers
Kathmandu, Feb 2 (PTI) Nine border pillars along the Nepal-India border in Kailali district have been swept away by Karnali and Mohana rivers, officials...
Taiwan vows to respond to China’s military flight incursions
TAIPEI, Taiwan , Oct 5 (AP) — Taiwan’s defense minister on Wednesday said the island will respond to incursions into its airspace by Chinese...