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SERBIA: Around 25 NATO peacekeeping soldiers defending three town halls in northern Kosovo were injured in clashes with Serb protesters on Monday. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that 52 Serbs were injured, three of them seriously, accusing Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti of creating tensions. Vucic called on Serbs in Kosovo to avoid clashes with […]

Srinagar: The stage is all set for the third G20 Tourism Working Group Committee meeting in Srinagar. This is the first biggest international event in Kashmir since India-Australia one-day match at Sher-i-Kashmir Cricket Stadium in 1986. The three-day meeting will kick off at Sher-e-Kashmir International Conference Center (SKICC) from May 22. The first Working Group […]

Ukrainian security officials on May 19 said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is due to travel to Japan to attend a Group of Seven (G7) meeting as Russia continued to batter Ukrainian cities with air and missile attacks amid an apparent stalemate in the fierce fighting for control of the eastern city of Bakhmut. Kyiv was again […]

The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has strongly condemned the arrest of journalists Aftab Iqbal and Imran Riaz Khan and said that speech is everyone’s right which should not be banned under any circumstances. CPNE President Kazim Khan has demanded the immediate release of the arrested journalists from the government and said that dissent […]

Srinagar, May 06: Police on Saturday said that a terrorist was killed in a gunfight with the security forces in Karahama Kunzer area of northern Baramulla district. A police official said that the gunfight broke out after the police and security forces launched a cordon and search operation following inputs about the presence of terrorists […]

Women will soon be allowed to swim topless in Berlin’s public pools, after a ruling by the city’s authorities. It comes after a woman who was thrown out of an open-air pool for sunbathing topless took legal action. A second woman said she was told to cover up while at an indoor pool in December. […]

ANTAKYA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visited southern Turkey on Wednesday to see first-hand the destruction wrought by a massive earthquake as anger grew among local people over what they said was a slow government response to the rescue and relief effort. The confirmed death toll from Monday’s quake, which struck a swathe of southern Turkey […]

The last time Pakistan pleaded for inclusion and invitation to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan was at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in September. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s pitch surprised many Afghanistan watchers at home and abroad because the ground reality was and remains, wildly different. It has been a disastrous year for Pakistan which facilitated the Taliban’s […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he expects a long war in Ukraine, but that he saw “no sense” in mobilizing additional soldiers at this point. Putin told a televised meeting of the Kremlin’s Human Rights Council — a loyal group of journalists, activists and public figures — that Russia would continue to “defend ourselves […]

Srinagar: Former Chief Minister and PDP President Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday urged the youth in Jammu and Kashmir to actively take part in every election and not to leave any space uncontested. She said taking part in polls is the only weapon to fight with. “I appeal to all the youth, please do not leave […]