Srinagar: Pakistan on Monday said that the highlight of its Foreign Ministers visit to the United Nations will be to set out the new government’s priorities and its position and policy on key international and regional issues including the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, particularly in the light of UN Human Rights Council’s report which […]
Dubai: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused the United States of being a “bully” that wants to create insecurity in the Islamic Republic, a day after an attack on a military parade that killed 25 people, including 12 members of the country’s elite Revolutionary Guards. Speaking before leaving Tehran to attend the UN General Assembly in […]
WASHINGTON: US forces acting in self defense called in an airstrike on al Shabaab militants in the southern Somalia province of Lower Juba, killing an estimated 18 Islamist extremists, US Africa Command said on Saturday. Somali government troops accompanying the US unit killed two other fighters of the al Qaeda-linked group with small arms fire […]
Tehran: President Hassan Rouhani vowed on Saturday to boost Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities despite Western concerns that were cited by his US counterpart Donald Trump in May when he abandoned a landmark nuclear deal with Tehran. “We will never decrease our defensive capabilities… we will increase them day by day,” Rouhani said at a military […]
Srinagar: In a big development, the meet scheduled to take place between India and Pakistan in New York on the sidelines of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly has been cancelled, according to reports on Friday. The decision comes from the Indian side after three policemen were killed in southern Kashmir’s Shopian town on Friday […]
DAR ES SALAAM: Dozens more bodies were recovered on Friday, the morning after a Tanzanian ferry disaster, nearly doubling the death toll to 86, with hundreds more feared missing as rescuers resumed searching for survivors at first light. The higher death toll was given to the Citizen newspaper by John Mongella, regional commissioner for the […]
Beijing:Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa that those who oppose the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) or the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will never succeed as this is an initiative of peace and development not only for China but for the whole region and beyond. Asserting that China […]
Geneva: Around 6.3 million children under the age of 15, died from mostly preventable causes last year, the equivalent to 1 child dying every 5 seconds, according to a new report compiled by a group of United Nations agencies. Newborn babies account for half of the deaths. The new mortality estimates study was released on […]
The death toll from a suicide attack on Afghan security forces has soared to 68, officials said Wednesday, as violence flares across the country ahead of elections and a key Islamic holy day, Muharram. The bombing on Tuesday in the eastern province of Nangarhar was the latest in a wave of deadly insurgent attacks which […]
BRUSSELS: Belgian police said they shot and seriously injured a man who attacked them with a knife after he was found sleeping rough near a centre for asylum seekers in Brussels on Monday. Two police officers approached two sleeping men and asked them to move on. One then pulled out a knife and refused to […]
