Category: International

NOTTINGHAM, June – British police said a man had been arrested on suspicion of murder after three people were found dead on the street in the central English city of Nottingham on Tuesday and three were injured after an attempt to run them over with a van.Detectives said they had an open mind about the […]

MIAMI, June – Former U.S. President Donald Trump appeared in a Miami courtroom on Tuesday to face criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them.Trump was due to submit a plea at an arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman that […]

WASHINGTON, June – Two human rights groups have invited policy makers, journalists and analysts to a screening in Washington of a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi that questioned the Indian prime minister’s leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots, ahead of his state visit to the White House.Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have scheduled the […]

NEW DELHI: In a tit-for-tat move amid an intensifying media row, China has asked the last Indian journalist operating in the country to leave by the end of the month.India had four reporters based in China this year. Two were barred from returning in April after their visas were “frozen”, and another journalist left Beijing […]

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government has no intention of freezing foreign currency accounts, the cash-strapped country’s state minister for Finance and Revenue said on Monday amidst a severe dollar crunch.Talking to journalists outside Parliament on Monday, State Minister Dr Aisha Ghaus Pasha said, “We do not plan on freezing foreign currency accounts, and there have been […]

UNITED NATIONS: Afghanistan’s Taliban-appointed interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani is reportedly seeking to take under his control the most promising economic projects, primarily the construction of the Afghan section of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, a UN report has said.The 14th report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the 1988 Taliban Sanctions Committee […]

Kyiv:Kyiv on Monday said it had wrested seven villages in eastern and southern Ukraine from Russian forces since the weekend.Ukraine also said it made small gains near the eastern city of Bakhmut after launching a long-awaited counteroffensive with Western weapons to claw back territory.“Seven settlements were liberated,” Deputy Defence Minister Ganna Malyar said on Telegram.These […]

Lahore:Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan was booked on Sunday in yet another case related to the purchase of over 5,000 kanals (625 acres) of land at throwaway prices through fraud in the country’s Punjab province.The total number of cases against the 70-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief has now swelled to over 140 following his ouster […]

BUDAPEST, June 11 (Reuters) – An 11-year-old child died after losing consciousness on board a Turkish Airlines flight en route to New York from Istanbul, with medical services unable to resuscitate the child after the plane made an emergency landing in Budapest, news agency MTI reported.MTI said the Airport Medical Service was scrambled to the […]

DUBAI, June – Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday said a deal with the West over Tehran’s nuclear work was possible if the country’s nuclear infrastructure remained intact, amid a stalemate between Tehran and Washington to revive a 2015 nuclear pact.Months of indirect talks between Tehran and Washington to salvage the nuclear accord with six major […]