Category: International

KABUL, Dec – Afghanistan’s Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign NGOs to stop female employees from working, in a move the United Nations said would hit humanitarian operations just as winter grips a country already in economic crisis.A letter from the economy ministry, confirmed by spokesperson Abdulrahman Habib, said female employees of […]

ISLAMABAD: The US embassy in Islamabad on Sunday warned its staff of a possible attack on Americans at a top hotel in Pakistan’s capital as the city was already on high alert following a suicide bombing earlier in the week.The US government is aware of information that “unknown individuals are possibly plotting to attack Americans […]

BEIJING, Dec (Reuters) – China’s Zhejiang, a big industrial province near Shanghai, is battling around a million new daily COVID-19 infections, a number expected to double in the days ahead, the provincial government said on Sunday.Despite a record surge of cases nationwide, China reported no COVID deaths on the mainland for the five days through […]

A Myanmar junta court could hand down the final verdicts in an 18-month trial of Aung San Suu Kyi next week, closing the latest chapter in the military’s decades-long battle with the democracy figurehead. The Nobel laureate, 77, has already been found guilty on 14 charges ranging from corruption to illegally importing walkie-talkies and breaching […]

ISLAMABAD: The IMF has shared lists of prerequisite actions and told Pakistani authorities in plain words that Islamabad will have to move towards implementing all demands in the next 15 to 20 days for reviving the stalled Fund programme. Now the time has come for taking “all required actions” by Pakistani authorities and there is […]

Dubai: A UAE-based Indian couple’s efforts to elevate the standard of a girl’s government school in Kozhikode of India’s Kerala has paid rich dividends, with the local government now set to implement its exemplary model across 141 government schools in the state benefitting 300,000 students. The Nadakkavu Government Vocational Higher Secondary School (GVHSS) for Girls, […]

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday leveled fresh allegations against former army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa and claimed the retired general had ‘made a deal’ with Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah. Talking to senior journalists in Lahore, the former prime minister said that […]

TEHRAN: The Iranian foreign minister said on Thursday that Europe’s unilateral approach toward Iran’s issues and its continued interference in the country’s internal affairs is “unacceptable.” Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a phone call with his Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel Albares, in which the two sides also discussed issues of common interest, according to […]

The United States must stop its “old routine of unilateral bullying”, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a telephone call. Wang on Friday accused the US of trying to suppress China’s development. Washington must pay attention to Beijing’s legitimate concerns, he said, warning the US against trying […]

MOSCOW — The Kremlin on Thursday accused Kyiv and Washington of turning a deaf ear to its concerns and charged the United States was using Ukraine as a battleground to weaken Russia. It came as President Vladimir Putin insisted Russia was aiming for a speedy end to the fighting. “Our goal is… to end this […]