Category: International

TRIPOLI: At least 10,000 people were feared missing in Libya on Tuesday in floods caused by a huge storm that burst dams, swept away buildings and wiped out as much as a quarter of the eastern city of Derna. More than 1,000 bodies have already been recovered in Derna alone and officials expected the death […]

The UN rights chief warned Tuesday that human rights in Afghanistan are in a “state of collapse.” Volker Turk’s remarks came during an interactive dialogue held by the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The collapsing human rights situation is “acutely affecting” the lives of millions of women, men, girls and boys, Turk said. While noting […]

Republican US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday called for an impeachment inquiry into Democratic President Joe Biden, a move certain to further divide lawmakers as they struggle to pass legislation to avoid a government shutdown. Many in McCarthy’s party were infuriated when the House, then controlled by Democrats, twice impeached Republican president […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were wrong. Speaking at a forum in eastern Russia, he said it is not right to do anything in foreign policy that harms the interests of other people. His remarks come as Russian troops continue fighting in Ukraine. The Soviet Union invaded […]

The 18th summit of the Group of Twenty (G20) concluded in New Delhi on Sunday, September 10, with a resolve to focus its future meetings on inclusive development, dealing with the threat of climate change, terrorism and resolving issues faced by the global South. The Summit’s declaration reflected what the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]

Greece’s shipping minister has resigned over comments he made on TV following the death of a man who was allegedly pushed off a ferry by crew members. Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said his remarks, in which he appeared to back the ferry’s crew over the incident last Tuesday, have been “misinterpreted”. The ship’s captain and three workers […]

GENEVA: U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk said Monday that Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative and Russian attacks on Ukrainian grain facilities have pushed food prices “sky high” in many developing countries. Speaking to a session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Türk said the spike in prices has taken “the […]

President Dr Arif Alvi can announce the date for the general elections at “any time”, raising concerns of another constitutional crisis in the country, insiders told Express News on Monday. Alvi’s five-year tenure as the country’s president concluded on Friday following which a cloud of uncertainty is hanging over whether how he will continue in […]

ISLAMABAD: US Senator Chris Van Hollen on Sunday stated the US President Joe Biden-led administration has no intentions of interfering in the internal politics of Pakistan and denied all allegations of political engineering. “I have been in contact with the Biden administration for a long time and can confidently say that there was no attempt […]

WASHINGTON: Muna Habib could not have known anything about his deals and stocks and was not involved in “any conceivable way”, former US ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson writes in a letter which is included in the documents submitted to the trial court. The letter, which is part of the documents submitted to a US […]