Category: International

ISTANBUL: Turk­ish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan said Wednesday he will host the Palestinian leader Ismail Haniyeh, in Turkey this weekend. “The leader of the Palestinian cause will be my guest this weekend,” Erdogan, told lawmakers. Private tele­vision channel NTV reported that the two men would meet on Saturday at the Dolma­bahce palace in Istanbul. Their […]

UNITED NATIONS, April 17 (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote Friday on a Palestinian request for full U.N. membership, said diplomats, a move that Israel ally the United States is expected to block because it would effectively recognize a Palestinian state. The 15-member council is due to vote at 3 […]

Sindh High Court (SHC) said on Wednesday that the government must restore social media platform X within one week, a lawyer said, after more than two months of disruption ordered by the interior ministry. The platform, formerly known as Twitter, has been rarely accessible since February 17, when Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) called for protests against […]

TAIPEI, TAIWAN: The U.S. 7th Fleet said a Navy P-8A Poseidon flew through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, a day after U.S. and Chinese defense chiefs held their first talks since Nov. 2022 in an effort to reduce regional tensions. The patrol and reconaissance plane “transited the Taiwan Strait in international airspace,” the 7th Fleet […]

Heavy rain has been battering Gulf states, causing flash floods that have killed 20 people and disrupted flights at the world’s second-busiest airport. Dubai International Airport says it is facing “very challenging conditions”. It advised passengers not to turn up as runways were inundated with water. Further north, a man died when his car was […]

Strikes hit a playground and busy market in Maghazi refugee camp with at least 40 Palestinians killed throughout Gaza in the past day as Israel’s onslaught on civilians continues. Iran marks Army Day as the international community fearfully watches for Israeli retaliation after the unprecedented attack by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp. Gaza health ministry […]

The American Airlines pilot union has alleged that the airline is facing a “significant spike” in safety and maintenance issues, CNN reported. The Allied Pilots Association has warned members and travellers of “problematic trends.” The safety committee of the Allied Pilots Association, in an email wrote to members that there “has been a significant spike […]

At least 29 Maoist insurgents were killed in a shootout with security forces on Tuesday, police told AFP, one of the deadliest days in the long-running conflict. The guerrillas were killed in a remote part of the central state of Chhattisgarh, which has seen a number of deadly assaults on Maoist forces this year. The […]

Dubai International (DXB) airport said it is temporarily diverting inbound flights due to arrive this evening on Tuesday until the inclement situation improves. All flydubai flights scheduled for departure from Dubai on April 16 have been cancelled. This is effective immediately until 10am on April 17, a spokesperson for the airline said in a statement […]

Israel is placing “unlawful restrictions” on humanitarian aid going into and being distributed in the Gaza Strip, the U.N. human rights office said Tuesday. Ravina Shamdasani, the spokesperson for U.N. High Commission for Human Rights Volker Türk, told reporters in Geneva that Israeli forces continue to “carry out widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure in Gaza.” […]