Category: International

The United States was disappointed Sunday after the United Nations Security Council did not unanimously condemn the Hamas attack on Israel, indicating the attack was part of long-unresolved issues with Russia urging to take a broader view of the situation rather than denouncing powerful blow by a Palestinian resistance group. “My message was to stop […]

President Biden is sending additional military assistance to Israel following the Hamas attack on southern Israel. The White House said Mr Biden had spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the “unprecedented and appalling assault”. The US was also working to verify reports its citizens were among those killed and taken captive, Secretary of […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will attend the annual meeting of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) Executive Committee meeting starting in Geneva today amid the country’s push for seeking deportation of around 1.75 million foreigners, mostly Afghans, residing in the country illegally. The Pakistani delegation will be led by Special Representative on Afghanistan Asif Durrani […]

An Israeli lawmaker has told Al Jazeera that his party warned about events like Saturday’s Hamas attack on Israel if the country’s government continued its illegal occupation of Palestinian lands. Hamas launched a multipronged assault at dawn on Saturday with thousands of rockets fired at Israel, and the Gaza-based group’s fighters infiltrating Israeli towns and […]

Russia’s new silo-based intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile system is nearly combat-ready, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Saturday, after he inspected the manufacture of Sarmat missiles, one of Russia’s most advanced weapons, according to Reuters. “Re-equipping the Strategic Missile Forces with this system, which will become the basis of Russia’s ground-based strategic nuclear forces, is a […]

RAWALPINDI: Security forces killed two terrorists in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the general area Zerber of Kech district in Balochistan, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Saturday. According to the military’s media affairs wing: “On [the] night [between] 6/7 October 2023, security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in general area Zerber, Kech District […]

The death toll from an earthquake in western Afghanistan on Saturday has risen to around 120 with 1,000 more injured, disaster relief authorities said, as desperate families dug into the night to free relatives trapped in the rubble. The United States Geological Survey said the epicentre of the magnitude 6.3 quake was 40 kilometres (25 […]

A central security agency has received an email threatening to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi and blow up the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad, and demanding Rs 500 crore as well as the release of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, officers said. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) alerted the Mumbai police about the threat email and […]

A petition was submitted to the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday, seeking the establishment of a judicial commission to probe the Maari Jalbani village incident, also known as the Sakrand incident. Tahmasp Rasheed Razvi Advocate, the petitioner, has called upon the court to appoint a high court judge to oversee the investigation, aiming to […]

Palestinian fighters have launched the largest attack on Israel in years, infiltrating areas of southern Israel amid a barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip that killed at least one woman and injured 15 others, Israeli medical workers said. The rocket fire began from multiple locations in Gaza starting at 06:30am local time (03:30 […]