Category: International

By Ali Madeeh HashmiA couple of days ago, in my evening clinic, a family came in to report on the condition of their daughter, who is under my treatment. After several months of doing well, she had deteriorated mentally due to various family stresses and had been unable to sleep; she was agitated, anxious and […]

Canada’s Senate speaker will not attend a two-day G20 event in New Delhi this week, India said on Thursday, as ties remain frozen after Canada said it is investigating allegations linking Indian agents to the killing of a Sikh separatist leader. Speaker Raymonde Gagne will not be present at the two-day parliamentary speakers’ summit that […]

‘The Saudi authorities have informed the Pakistani embassy in Riyadh of recovering a large number of Pakistani passports from Afghan citizens’ More than 12,000 Pakistani passports have been seized by Saudi Arabian authorities from Afghan nationals, Geo News reported on Thursday. The development occurs when law enforcement agencies intensify their efforts to target dishonest individuals […]

Sports presenter Zainab Abbas on Thursday addressed her abrupt departure from India, clarifying that she was not deported or asked to leave the country, while also tendering an apology for her posts that were deemed offensive. Abbas was in India as part of the World Cup 2023 broadcast team but exited the country earlier this […]

Israeli air strikes are pounding the Gaza Strip for a sixth consecutive day as fears of a humanitarian disaster in the besieged Palestinian enclave mount. Israel on Thursday said it has dropped 6,000 bombs weighing 4,000 tonnes on Gaza in the past six days, killing more than 1,400 people. Officials in Gaza said the dead […]

Saudi Arabia said on Thursday it was investigating reports of grim conditions for migrant workers at Amazon warehouses in the kingdom, denouncing all labour abuse and exploitation as “unacceptable”. The human resources and social development ministry said in a statement to AFP that the investigation began before Amnesty International this week reported that Amazon workers […]

Israeli strikes targeted Syria’s two main airports on Thursday, Syrian state television said, in the first such attack since a Hamas assault on Israel at the weekend triggered fierce fighting. “Israeli aggression targets Damascus and Aleppo airports,” the state television reported on the messaging app Telegram, without providing additional details. Israeli strikes have repeatedly caused […]

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Thursday that the number of Palestinians displaced in Gaza has risen to more than 338,000 amid intensified fighting. An OCHA official in Gaza, Hamada Al-Bayari, called for a humanitarian truce to allow relief workers to assess the situation in Gaza. The OCHA’s statement came […]

Journalist Cheng Lei has returned home to Australia after more than three years of detention in China. “She was met at the airport by the Foreign Minister Penny Wong,” Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, announcing her release. Cheng Lei, 48, was working as a business reporter for China’s state-run English language TV station CGTN […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy brought his appeal for military aid in the form of air defense, artillery and ammunition to NATO headquarters in Brussels where he is attending talks Wednesday with NATO defense ministers. “Air defense is a significant part of the answer to the question of when this war will end and whether it […]