Category: International

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and his Dutch counterpart David van Weel reaffirmed their countries’ readiness to restart bilateral political and consular consultations, describing the step as essential for strengthening cooperation. Araqchi, who is in The Hague to attend the 30th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Organization for the […]

Ukraine is pushing to arrange a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump “at the earliest suitable date,” as Kyiv and Washington attempt to shape the next phase of a still-elusive peace plan to end the war with Russia, according to BBC News. Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense […]

Twenty-two suspected members of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed in an intelligence-based operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district, Pakistan’s military said on Tuesday. According to a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), security forces launched the operation on Monday after receiving reports that TTP militants were present in the area. Troops “effectively […]

Afghan authorities say a series of overnight Pakistani airstrikes have killed nine children and a woman in southeastern Afghanistan, shattering a fragile ceasefire and inflaming already-raw tensions between the neighboring countries, according to Al Jazeera and TOLOnews. Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, reported that the attacks struck shortly after midnight in […]

Regional powers are intensifying diplomatic efforts to ease growing tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with officials from multiple neighboring states signaling readiness to mediate a thaw in relations, according to TOLOnews. Suhail Shaheen, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s acting ambassador in Qatar, told TOLOnews that Kabul remains committed to resolving disputes through dialogue. He said […]

The United States has signaled it will ease steep tariffs on European steel and aluminum only if the European Union agrees to moderate its enforcement of landmark digital regulations, according to officials following high-stakes meetings in Brussels on Monday, according to Euro News. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, a close Trump administration ally who helped […]

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a US-backed aid initiative, announced today that it is shutting down operations in the Gaza Strip after months of deadly chaos surrounding its food and supply distribution sites, according to Al Jazeera News. The organization said its closure aligns with terms outlined in the October Israel–Hamas ceasefire agreement, which created […]

UNITED NATIONS: Ministers and leaders from across the world’s 44 least developed countries have pledged to accelerate industrialization that benefits all, and strengthen resilience in the face of global challenges, at an international UN conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, according to APP. “First, we need to end the war. Then, we have to restart the […]

Three Federal Constabulary personnel were killed and 11 others injured on Monday when a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the main gate of the FC headquarters in Peshawar, in an attack carried out as hundreds of personnel gathered for a morning parade, according to Pakistan’s electronic media news. The assault unfolded in the city’s Saddar […]

South Asia stands perilously close to catastrophe as nuclear tensions, political volatility, and accelerating climate disasters converge pushing the region’s metaphorical Doomsday Clock even nearer to midnight, according to The Friday Times Pakistan. The global Doomsday Clock, created in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to warn humanity of existential threats, now sits […]