Category: International

SANTIAGO: Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has withdrawn from the race to become the next secretary-general of the United Nations, ending a campaign that sought to place a woman from Latin America at the helm of the world body. Bachelet announced her decision on Sept. 19 in a video posted on social media. She said […]

The United Nations has condemned what it called a “shocking pattern” of sexual violence by Russian forces during the war in Ukraine, warning that the abuse is likely continuing as fighting persists. A report published by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights documented 1,004 cases of conflict-related sexual violence between Russia’s […]

TEHRAN, September 19: Iran has sent its conditions to mediators for restarting negotiations with the United States, a senior Iranian security official said on Saturday, as the two countries remain locked in a dangerous military confrontation. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Tehran had communicated its demands through Qatari and Pakistani […]

Trump said the agreement would give the United States “permanent control over security, and all other needs” in Greenland, which is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. However, he did not claim that the United States would take control of the territory itself. The agreement is expected to be signed during next week’s […]

DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria: Eleven Syrian soldiers were killed in an explosion at a military site in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, the Defence Ministry said on Saturday. The blast occurred on Friday at an army position in the Ayyash area, west of Deir ez-Zor city, according to Syria’s state news agency, SANA. The ministry […]

A thick column of black smoke rose near Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on Saturday after explosions were heard across the Saudi capital, amid a sharp escalation in attacks by Yemen’s Houthi movement. Reuters footage showed smoke rising from the area of a fuel storage depot, with the airport highway, terminal building and other facilities […]

At least 21 people, including 15 police officers, were killed and more than 100 injured when a bomb‑laden vehicle tore into the Kohat Police Lines on Friday, followed by gunmen storming the compound and attacking police buildings. District Health Officer Dr Nasir Hassan Afridi confirmed the death toll to Dawn, adding that three of the […]

Support for Israel among American voters has sunk to its lowest level since the Gaza war began, a new Fox News poll shows, as fatigue and frustration grow over the conflict’s human cost and unclear endgame. Just 48% of registered voters now say they side more with Israelis than Palestinians, down from 54% in June […]

TEHRAN: A UN-commissioned human rights mission has found “reasonable grounds” to believe that the United States committed war crimes in two airstrikes in Iran, including a deadly attack on a school in the southern city of Minab. The international fact finding mission said the two strikes on February 28 resulted in the deaths of at […]

Pakistan has moved up from the bottom of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2026, but remains among the worst-performing countries in the world. The South Asian nation now ranks 143rd out of 145 economies, ahead of only Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran and Chad, after closing 59.5% of its […]