Category: International

Former prime minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan has asked his supporters and party leaders to converge on Rawalpindi on November 26 to demand free and fair elections in the country. “I am inviting the entire nation to reach Rawalpindi on November 26 (next Saturday). I will meet you there and announce future course of […]

Funerals for young Iranians, including a small boy who families say were killed in a state crackdown, sparked a new wave of anti-regime protests on Friday in the Islamic republic. Iran’s clerical leadership under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is facing its biggest challenge since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in the now two months of protests […]

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday called for revisiting the strategy to deal with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakis­tan (TTP), which has stepped up terror activities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “It is time to review decisions we took or we were made to take with regards to internal security and terrorism,” Mr Bhutto-Zardari said in response […]

The US has determined that Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader – Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – has immunity from a lawsuit filed by murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancé. Mr Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi critic, was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. US intelligence has said it believes Prince Mohammed ordered […]

Video clips showing the ancestral home in Iran of the late founder of the Islamic republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on fire have been widely shared on social media, with activists saying it was torched by protesters. Reuters verified the location of two video clips using the distinctive arches and buildings that match file images. The […]

One out of every three houses sold in the resort town of Antalya was bought by foreigners in October, according to the data of the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK). While the number of residences purchased by foreigners in Türkiye in October was nearly 5,400, more than 2,000 of the 6,233 residences sold in Antalya and […]

Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt: UN climate talks entered their last day Friday with rich and developing nations deadlocked over creating a fund for countries devastated by the affects of global warming — and the EU warning its offer was final. Representatives from nearly 200 countries have gathered at the COP27 in Egypt for two weeks […]

Three more security personnel were killed by armed assailants across Iran on Thursday amid sweeping protests triggered by the death of a young woman in September. Colonel Hassan Yousefi was traveling with another police officer in the Golzar Behest Mohammad area of Sanandaj city in northwestern Kurdistan province when they were attacked with knives and […]

BANGKOK — Pro-democracy protesters scuffled with riot police Thursday in Bangkok a few hundred meters from the venue for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, where leaders from the U.S., China and 19 other Pacific Rim nations are meeting. Tens of thousands of police and army personnel deployed across the capital to discourage groups […]

The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) — a non-governmental organisation — on Thursday termed the killing of journalist Arshad Sharif as “well-planned” and “clearly choreographed”. Sharif was shot dead in Kenya on October 24. Initially, Kenyan media quoted the local police as saying Sharif was shot dead by police in a case of “mistaken identity”. […]