Pakistan finds itself mired in latest economic crisis: PM Shehbaz Sharif
Islamabad, Aug 16 (PTI) Pakistan was once widely thought to become the next Asian tiger , but has found itself mired in financial crisis,...
UK and Irish leaders meet in Dublin as they try to reset relations...
DUBLIN, 7 Sep: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Ireland Saturday to meet his Irish counterpart, in what is being billed as an...
NASA spacecraft launched to mysterious and rare metal asteroid in first mission of its...
Cape Canaveral (US), Oct 13 (AP) NASA's Psyche spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a six-year journey to a rare metal-covered asteroid.
Most asteroids tend to...
Autopsies show Covid virus lingers in brain for months: Study
Washington, 3 Jan: The SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads throughout the body, including the brain, and lingers for almost eight months, shows an analysis of tissue...
Pakistan’s Punjab province decides to impose ’emergency’ due to rising rape cases
Lahore, 20 Jun: Authorities in Pakistan's Punjab province have decided to declare an "emergency" following a spike in cases of sexual abuse against women...
Pakistan gets Saudi’s nod for additional USD 2 billion funding to secure IMF bailout
Islamabad, Apr 6 (PTI) Cash-strapped Pakistan has received the nod for funding of an additional USD 2 billion in deposits from Saudi Arabia, a...
Trump legal team balks at judge’s declassification questions
WASHINGTON , Sep 20 (AP) — Donald Trump’s legal team has told a newly appointed independent arbiter that it does not want to answer...
Russia attacks targets across Ukraine with missiles and drones as EU”s top diplomat visits...
Kyiv, Feb 7 (AP) Russia fired cruise and ballistic missiles and Shahed-type drones at targets across Ukraine on Wednesday morning, authorities reported, killing at...
Facing arrest warrant, Russia’s Putin visits annexed Crimea
KYIV, 18 Mar: Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine on...
French writer Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in literature
STOCKHOLM, 6 Oct: French author Annie Ernaux was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in literature for "the courage and clinical acuity with which she...
India committed to be Gabon’s reliable partner: Vice President Naidu
Libreville (Gabon), May 31 (PTI) India attaches great importance to its relations with Gabon, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said on Tuesday, as he...
2 explosions near western Ukraine border
Bucharest, Apr 26 (AP) Police in the Moldovan separatist region of Transnistria say two explosions on Tuesday morning in a radio facility close to...
Russia focuses on eastern Ukraine for possible new offensive
Kyiv, 1 Feb: Russia is mustering its military might in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, local officials said Wednesday, in what Kyiv suspects is...
Russia accuses Kyiv of downing a military transport plane, killing all 74 aboard, including...
KYIV, 24 Jan: A Russian military transport plane crashed Wednesday in a border region near Ukraine, and Moscow accused Kyiv of shooting it down,...
India becomes natural partner of US in diversifying supply chains: Congressman Bera
Washington, Feb 19 (PTI) As American companies diversify their supply chains, India becomes a natural partner, an influential US lawmaker has said, asserting that...
Afghan students return to Kabul University, but with restrictions
Kabul, Feb 26 (AP) Kabul University, among Afghanistan's oldest and most revered institutions of higher education, reopened Saturday six months after the Taliban retook...
Reached ‘some consensus’ with India: China on Ladakh
BEIJING, 26 Sep: China and India were able to "reduce differences" and build "some consensus" on disengaging troops from friction points to end the...
30 international peacekeepers injured in fierce clashes with ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo
PRISTINA, Kosovo, 30 May: The NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo, KFOR, on Tuesday raised the number of its troops injured in fierce clashes with...
Death toll from flood climbs to 59 in B’desh, over 5.4 m people affected
Dhaka, 31 Aug: At least 59 people, including six women and 12 children, have died in the devastating floods which affected more than five...
53 dead in China building collapse, search for trapped ends
Beijing, May 6 (AP) A building collapse one week ago in central China killed 53 people, state media reported Friday as the search of...