Category: International

NEW DELHI: Shares in the business empire of Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani nosedived, extending this week’s losses to $45 billion, days after a US investment firm claimed it had committed “brazen” corporate fraud. Adani, 60, began his week the world’s third-richest person but has tumbled down the rankings to seventh on Forbes’ billionaire’s tracker […]

A gunman opened fire and killed at least seven people at a synagogue in occupied East Jerusalem before being shot, raising fears of another round of deadly violence between the Israelis and Palestinians. After Friday’s shooting, the Magen David Adom emergency service said it was treating 10 wounded, some in critical condition. “What we understand […]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) on Friday remarked that action had to be taken against “influential people” in the missing persons case. The apex court, while hearing the plea for the recovery of Mehreen Baloch’s daughters who had been missing for five years, ordered the Sindh police to recover them within a month. The […]

The production of opium increased sharply in Myanmar, rising to a nine-year high, according to the UN. It touched nearly 795 metric tonnes in 2022, nearly double the production in 2021 – 423 metric tonnes – the year of the military coup. The UN believes this is driven by economic hardship and insecurity, along with […]

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation will be visiting Islamabad from January 31 to February 9 to continue discussions regarding the ninth review of the $7 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF), an official said on Thursday. Pakistan entered a $6 billion IMF programme in 2019, which was increased to $7bn last year. The programme’s ninth […]

Pakistan’s economy in on the verge of collapse as thousands of containers are stuck up at the seaports due to the severe shortage of dollars, a report published in the Financial Times warned on Thursday. Analysts warn that Pakistan’s economic situation is becoming untenable and is at risk of following Sri Lanka, where a lack […]

Nine Palestinians have been killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank – the deadliest in years – Palestinian officials say. A woman aged 60 was reported among the dead, in the flashpoint town of Jenin. The Israeli military said its troops went in to arrest Islamic Jihad militants planning “major attacks”. […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakis­tan’s human rights record will be examined by the Universal Periodic Rev­iew (UPR) Working Group of UN Human Rights Council, for the fourth time on Jan 30. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States. Pakistan is one of the […]

Biden mentions that today is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s birthday, and addresses the Ukrainian leader: “We are with you for as long as it takes.” Biden says Russian President Vladimir Putin expected that US support for Ukraine would crumble with time. “He was wrong,” he says. “We are united, America’s united, and so is the […]

The head of the United Nations’s nuclear monitoring agency says he will travel to Iran next month in hopes of reviving the 2015 accord aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear activities. Speaking Tuesday in Brussels before members of the European Parliament’s security and defense subcommittee, Rafael Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said […]