Category: International

PIDIE: The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) urged countries on Tuesday to help Rohingya Muslims stranded at sea as at least 20 reportedly died and hundreds more landed in Indonesia after weeks adrift in the Indian Ocean. Nearly 500 Rohingya have reached Indonesia in the past six weeks while “many others did not act despite […]

DUBAI: With foreign workers making up the vast bulk of private sector jobs in the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf’s second-largest economy wants to boost opportunities for its own citizens. The UAE — like other oil-rich Arab Gulf states — has often used the public sector as an employment vehicle for its nationals. But times […]

Taiwan will extend mandatory military service from four months to one year, President Tsai Ing-wen has said. The decision comes amid growing tensions with China, which claims the self-ruled island as its territory. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, President Tsai announced new plans to bolster Taiwan’s defence in the event of an attack […]

A Myanmar junta court will give its verdicts on five remaining charges in the 18-month trial of jailed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday, a legal source told AFP. Suu Kyi has been a prisoner since the military toppled her government in February last year, ending the Southeast Asian nation’s brief period of […]

KARACHI: The ongoing political unrest and smuggling of US dollars to Afghanistan continue to put pressure on Pakistani currency, foreign exchange dealers said on Monday. “Pakistan is currently dealing with problems on several fronts, the political crisis being the first and biggest one. The dollar crisis is also connected with it,” said Malik Bostan, the […]

Dec – A powerful blizzard that paralyzed western New York over Christmas weekend has killed at least 25 people, Erie county officials said on Monday, as road and utility crews faced a long day of digging out the snowed-in region around Buffalo.Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz told reporters at a Monday morning briefing that the […]

China is staging one of its biggest incursions so far in the seas and skies around Taiwan, according to data from the island’s defence ministry. It said that 71 Chinese air force planes, including fighter jets and drones, had entered Taiwan’s so-called air defence identification zone. Taiwan is self-ruled – but China sees it as […]

QUETTA: Six security personnel embraced martyrdom and at least two others sustained injuries in two separate incidents of improvised explosive device (IED) explosion and a shootout with terrorists in Balochistan, while nine people were injured in two separate bomb blasts in the provincial capital on Sunday. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) – media wing of […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Farrukh Habib on Sunday said that lawmakers from his party will visit the National Assembly on Wednesday for the acceptance of their resignations as members of the lower house of parliament, Dawn reported.On Sunday, Farrukh Habib said, “We are going to the National Assembly on Wednesday to get our resignations […]

DUBAI, Dec – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards arrested seven people on Sunday, including dual nationals linked to the United Kingdom, over anti-government protests that have rocked the country, according to a statement published by state media.“Seven main leaders of the recent protests related to the UK were detained by intelligence services of the IRGC (Revolutionary Guards) […]