Thursday, April 18, 2024
DAMASCUS — A blast ripped through a vehicle in the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday, causing property damage, according to the Damascus Police Department. The police said in a short statement that an explosive device tore up a car at Al-Huda Squ...
13 Apr 2024
ISLAMABAD — At least 11 people hailing from Pakistan’s Punjab province were abducted, identified and then killed near Noshki area of Balochistan province on Saturday. The attack hints towards a major surge in sectarian and provincial hatred preva...
13 Apr 2024
SYDNEY — Six people were fatally stabbed by an attacker who was later shot by the police in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs on Saturday. According to the New South Wales Police, emergency services were pressed into action at Westfield in Bondi Junct...
13 Apr 2024
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed his readiness for dialogue with Ukraine, and that an aborted 2022 peace deal could serve as the basis for resuming the negotiation, Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said. In a meeting with B...
13 Apr 2024
WASHINGTON — The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday selected Kristalina Georgieva to serve as IMF Managing Director for a second five-year term starting on October 1, 2024. The board’s decision was taken by con...
13 Apr 2024
TEL AVIV — The Israeli intelligence agencies Mossad and Shin Bet have reported to the Israel war cabinet that Iran could conduct a minor drone attack on Israeli military establishments. Sources in Israel’s Defence Ministry told IANS that th...
13 Apr 2024
JERUSALEM — Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has vowed an “appropriate response” if Iran attacks his country’s territory. “A direct Iranian attack on Israeli territory will require an appropriate Israeli response agains...
12 Apr 2024
KIEV — The Ukrainian Parliament has passed a law to tighten military mobilisation rules, lawmaker Yaroslav Zheleznyak said on Telegram. The legislation, which aims to recruit more troops for the country’s armed forces, was supported by 283 vo...
12 Apr 2024
MOSCOW — At least 13,000 people have been evacuated in parts of Russia as of Thursday, as multiple regions continue to battle extreme floods amid rising water levels, local authorities said. In some of the worst flooding in decades due to a continu...
12 Apr 2024
UNITED NATIONS — The UN Fact-Finding Mission in Sudan reports that nearly a year of fighting in the country has left thousands of civilians dead and millions more displaced, a UN spokesman said. “It said that fighting between the Sudanese Arm...
12 Apr 2024
SEOUL — A court in South Korea’s Seoul on Thursday dismissed requests by leaders of the biggest doctors’ association to halt the government’s suspension of their medical licenses in connection with a mass walkout by trainee doctor...
11 Apr 2024
SEOUL — An international tribunal ordered South Korea on Thursday to pay 43.8 billion won ($32 million) in compensation to US-based hedge fund Mason Capital in an investor-state lawsuit the company filed over a controversial 2015 merger of two Sams...
11 Apr 2024
ISLAMABAD — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said that Pakistan’s economic outlook remains uncertain with high risks on the downside. “Political uncertainty that affects macroeconomic policy-making will remain a key risk to the sustainabili...
11 Apr 2024
SEOUL — The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) retained a majority in the National Assembly in Wednesday’s general elections in another major setback for the ruling People Power Party (PPP) and President Yoon Suk Yeol. With almost all vote...
11 Apr 2024
SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has vowed to mobilise all means to deal a “death-blow” to the country’s enemy without hesitation should it opt for military confrontation with North Korea, state media said on Thursday. Kim ...
11 Apr 2024
COLOMBO — Indian High Commissioner in Colombo Santosh Jha on Wednesday said that India is prepared to share the advanced defence equipment with Sri Lanka. “We are not only producing our national requirements but we are also willing to make these ...
10 Apr 2024
UNITED NATIONS — India remains a “strong” recipient of foreign investments as multinationals recognise it as an alternative manufacturing base for supply chains, according to the United Nations. “India is benefiting by growing int...
10 Apr 2024
UNITED NATIONS : The negotiations for reforming the UN Security Council have not “begun in earnest” and the process is stuck in “informal discussions,” according to General Assembly President Dennis Francis. “Under the a...
10 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has said that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has clandestinely and deceptively interfered in the two Canadian elections, media reports said. “We know that the Peoples’ Re...
09 Apr 2024
NEW YORK — A 25-year-old Indian student who had been missing since last month was found dead in the US city of Cleveland, the second death within a week in the country as the community grapples with a string of such tragedies. Mohammad Abdul Arfath...
09 Apr 2024
UNITED NATIONS — India termed the UN Security Council resolution that demanded immediate ceasefire in Gaza for the month of Ramadan a “positive step,” asserting that the humanitarian crisis resulting from the ongoing Israel-Hamas confli...
09 Apr 2024
CAIRO — Egypt, Jordan, and France have urged an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which has been under Israeli siege and bombardment over the past six months. In a joint article on Monday, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, Jordanian Kin...
09 Apr 2024
VIENNA — International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations nuclear watchdog, has said that the drone attack at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine on Sunday is a “serious incident that endangered nuclear safety ...
08 Apr 2024
SEOUL — South Korea launched its second indigenous spy satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in the US state of Florida on Monday (Seoul time), according to the country’s defence ministry. The Falcon 9 lifted off at ...
08 Apr 2024
BRATISLAVA — Slovakia’s incumbent Speaker of the National Council Peter Pellegrini won the country’s second round of the presidential election held on Saturday, according to preliminary results published by Slovakia’s Statistical ...
07 Apr 2024
