Chinese investigators arrived in Pakistan on Friday to join a probe into Tuesday’s suicide attack in Bisham which claimed the lives of six people, including five Chinese nationals, according to the interior ministry. The five Chinese engineers — and their Pakistani driver — were killed in the suicide bombing on Tuesday while travelling between Islamabad […]
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At least 71 Palestinians killed and 112 wounded over the last 24 hours, Gaza’s health ministry reports. At least 15 people die in an Israeli strike on a sports centre in Gaza City, while injuries reported in the bombing of Saad bin Abi Waqqas Mosque in the Jabalia refugee camp. Israel pitches multi-national Arab military […]
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A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight attendant was apprehended at Toronto International Airport for carrying ‘unauthorised’ passports for international travel. Express News learned from sources that Hina Sani, a member of the cabin crew, arrived in Toronto on PIA Flight PK-789. Allegedly, she was found in possession of passports that did not belong to her, […]
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LUCKNOW: Three months after his lawyers moved the Indian Supreme Court about the possibility that he may be eliminated in custody, jailed Muslim leader and former MLA Mukhtar Ansari died in a jail in Uttar Pradesh state. According to Kashmir Media Service, Mukhtar Ansari, 63, died on Thursday after he was rushed to a hospital […]
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has delivered a blunt warning that Europe has entered a “pre-war era” and if Ukraine is defeated by Russia, nobody in Europe will be able to feel safe. “I don’t want to scare anyone, but war is no longer a concept from the past,” he told European media. “It’s real […]
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United Nations: A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said we very much “hope” that in India and any country that is having elections, people’s “political and civil rights” are “protected” and everyone can vote in a “free and fair” atmosphere. Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric made these remarks on Thursday while he […]
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According to Al Jazeera reports: Ukraine launched a devastating missile strike against Russian military targets in the Crimean port of Sevastopol late on Saturday, further debilitating Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. The combination of a reported 40 Storm Shadow missiles, decoy missiles and drones damaged a communications centre, the Yamal and the Azov, two Ropucha-class landing […]
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GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces pounded besieged Gaza on Wednesday in the war sparked by the October 7 attack and fought Hamas around several hospitals despite a UN Security Council demand for a ceasefire. Talks in Qatar towards a truce and hostage release deal, involving US and Egyptian mediators, have brought no result so far, with […]
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Judges at the International Court of Justice on Thursday unanimously ordered Israel to take all the necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies arrive without delay to the Palestinian population in Gaza. The ICJ said the Palestinians in Gaza face worsening conditions of life, and famine and starvation are spreading. “The court observes […]
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Dozens of people are still missing following the attack on the Crocus City Hall music venue in Moscow, raising fears that the death toll could rise higher than the current 143. Some relatives of the missing have been attempting to track down their loved ones in hospitals around the capital. The fire which destroyed much […]
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