Category: World

ISLAMABAD: Over 31,000 Sikhs voted for Khalistan Referendum in Sydney amid stiff resistance from the Indian government and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal campaign to stop Sikhs from holding the third phase of the referendum in Australia. The Sydney phase of Khalistan Referendum was organised to mark the anniversary of the 1984 Operation Blue […]

KHARTOUM-Shelling rocked greater Khartoum on Saturday as fighting between Sudan’s warring generals intensified, despite US sanctions imposed after the collapse of a US- and Saudi-brokered truce. Witnesses reported “artillery fire” in eastern Khartoum and around the state television building in the capital’s sister city Omdurman, just across the Nile. For nearly seven weeks, fighting between […]

BALASORE, INDIA: Desperate relatives searched Sunday for loved ones missing after India’s worst train disaster in decades, and the death toll was expected to climb above 288 as authorities searched for clues to the cause. Debris was piled high at the site of Friday night’s crash near Balasore, in the eastern state of Odisha, with […]

At least 50 people were killed and 300 hospitalised in India after a passenger train derailed and collided with goods train in Odisha’s Balasore district on Friday, according to media reports. Rescue operations were underway at the site and “all possible assistance” is being given to those affected, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in […]

KHARTOUM: Sudanese army forces blasted paramilitary bases with artillery in Khartoum on Wednesday after pulling out of US and Saudi-brokered ceasefire talks, accusing their foes of failing to honour their commitments. Mediators have blamed both sides for violating the truce which was supposed to enable secure corridors for delivering aid to an increasingly needy population. […]

WASHINGTON: The Qatari prime minister held secret talks with the supreme leader of the Taliban this month on resolving tension with the international community, a source briefed on the meeting said, signaling a new willingness by Afghanistan’s rulers to discuss ways to end their isolation. The May 12 meeting in the southern Afghan city of […]

Wellington, May 30: Air New Zealand will begin weighing passengers departing on international flights from the Auckland International Airport starting from July 2, the media reported on Tuesday. The flag carrier said the programme, which the airline calls a passenger weight survey, is a way to gather data on the weight load and distribution for […]

ISLAMABAD: Acute food insecurity in Pakistan is likely to further exacerbate in coming months if the economic and political crisis further worsens, compounding the effects of the 2022 floods, warns a new United Nations report published on Monday. The report titled, Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity, jointly published by the Food […]

Saudi Arabia has put to death two Bahrainis accused of plotting “terrorist” operations, the Saudi Ministry of Interior said on Monday, raising the number of similar executions to nine this month. The Bahraini nationals, identified as Jaafar Sultan and Sadiq Thamer, had been charged with “joining a terrorist cell led by a man wanted in […]

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: The Taliban and Iran exchanged heavy gunfire Saturday on the Islamic Republic’s border with Afghanistan, sharply escalating rising tensions between the two nations amid a dispute over water rights. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency quoted the country’s deputy police chief, Gen. Qassem Rezaei, accusing the Taliban of opening fire first Saturday […]