Category: International

More than 17 million people in Afghanistan are facing crisis levels of hunger in the coming winter months, the leading international authority on hunger crises and the UN food aid agency warned on Tuesday.Economic woes, recurrent drought, shrinking international aid and an influx of Afghans returning home from countries like neighbouring Iran and Pakistan have […]

Authorities in Lithuania said on Tuesday they had arrested 21 people allegedly connected to a criminal network that smuggled cigarettes using specially equipped weather balloons from Russia-allied Belarus which have violated the Baltic country’s airspace in recent weeks.Investigators conducted more than 80 searches, seizing cigarettes with Belarusian excise stamps, SIM cards, communication and tracking signal […]

ADDIS ABABA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday was conferred with Ethiopia’s highest award ‘The Great Honour Nishan of Ethiopia’ by his Ethiopian counterpart Abiy Ahmed Ali.The award was conferred upon Prime Minister Modi in a special ceremony hosted at the Addis International Convention Centre on Tuesday.Prime Minister Modi was conferred with the award for […]

A series of missteps has now surfaced as the Brown University shooter who gunned down two students of the university is still not identified or caught even after 30 hours of manhunt. The authorities have now confirmed that there is no other footage of the shooter other than the one that was released immediately after […]

Vigils were held a day after two armed men killed 15 people at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration on Sunday.At least 40 people remain in hospital following the attack, including two police officers who are in a serious but stable condition, police said. They said the shooting suspects are a father-son duo.Here is what we know […]

New Delhi: India has eased the visa approval process for Chinese professionals as the two countries continue to improve ties in the aftermath of the 2020 Ladakh border standoff.According to officials quoted by news agency Reuters, India has reduced bureaucratic scrutiny and reduced visa approval times for Chinese professionals to less than a month.The move […]

A mass shooting at Bondi Beach in the Australian city of Sydney has killed at least 11 people and wounded 29, including two police officers, police say.One man believed to be one of the shooters has also been killed, while a second alleged shooter is in critical condition. Authorities designate the shooting a “terrorist” incident, […]

Jemima Khan, the ex-wife of Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, has made a public plea to Elon Musk over her ex-husband’s alleged treatment in prison. Posting on X, she described how her two sons have not been allowed to see or speak to their father during his 22 months of solitary confinement.In her […]

KHANEWAL (PAKISTAN): A bus hostess was killed, and at least 14 passengers were injured on Saturday after a passenger bus collided with a trailer near the Makhdoom Pur Interchange on the M-4 Motorway, triggering a large-scale rescue operation, ARY News reported.According to Rescue 1122 officials, the emergency control room received an alert about a serious […]

Lionel Messi’s much-hyped tour of India got off to a rocky start on Saturday with angry fans throwing bottles and attempting to vandalise a stadium after many of them failed to get more than just a glimpse of their hero.The Times of India reported that many ticket holders said they failed to see Messi at […]