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ISLAMABAD Aug 17 (Online): Embattled officials in Hawaii who have been criticised for the lack of warnings as a deadly wildfire ripped through a town insisted on Wednesday that sounding emergency sirens would not have saved lives. At least 110 people died when the inferno […]

NEWYORK, August 17 (Online): Masood Khan, Pakistan’s ambassador to America, has said that Pakistan is moving towards political and economic stability. On Independence Day, Pakistan’s Ambassador Masood Khan unfurled the Pakistani flag and New York City while Mayor Eric Adams hoisted the American flag. Speaking […]

ISLAMABAD Aug 16 (Online): Another incident of desecration of the Holy Quran has taken place outside the Swedish Royal Palace in the capital Stockholm amid a heavy police presence, it emerged on Wednesday. The incident, which took place on Monday, marked the second time in […]

DHAKA Aug 16 (Online): Around 50,000 people attended Tuesday’s funeral Jamaat-e-Islami leader in Bangladesh, police said, after news of his death while he was in prison for war crimes prompted violent anti-government protests. Delwar Hossain Sayedee, 83, was sentenced to death in 2013 for rape, […]

Damascus, Aug 16 (AFP/APP): Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has decreed a 100-percent pay rise for civil servants and pensioners while fuel subsidies were lifted in a country ravaged by 12 years of war. The Syrian economy has been battered by the conflict that has killed […]

Kubinka, Russia, Aug 16 (AFP/APP): In the Moscow region’s Patriot Park, dedicated to the achievements of the Russian army, an officer wearing a green cap stood in front of a captured US MaxxPro armoured vehicle. “It was abandoned on a battlefield because it stopped working,” […]

Kahului, United States, Aug 16 (AFP/APP): President Joe Biden will head to fire-ravaged Hawaii next week to meet with survivors and first responders still hunting for bodies, the White House said Wednesday, as the first victims of the horrific blaze were named. The fire, which […]

WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (XINHUA/APP):U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that the United States is still “very focused on diplomacy” as the tool to solve the ongoing political crisis in Niger resulting from an attempted coup by a junta. “We remain very focused on […]