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Geneva, May 11 (AFP/APP):The UN rights chief Thursday called on the international community to exert all possible pressure on the fighting sides in Sudan to resolve the conflict and end “the wanton violence”. The fighting has plunged “this much-suffering country into a catastrophe”, United Nations […]

LODZ 10 May (Online): A man who burst into an orphanage in Poland has killed a teenage girl and injured nine people in a knife attack, police in the central city of Lodz said. The attack took place around 1100 PM local on Tuesday evening […]

WASHINGTON 10 May (Online): The killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, one of the Arab world’s most recognisable journalists, was not an isolated event, it was part of a pattern, warns a report released in the United States on Tuesday. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), […]

Khartoum, May 10 (AFP/APP): Fighting raged in the Sudanese capital and a city to the south Wednesday, residents said, pushing more people to undertake dangerous journeys to safety across the country’s borders. Those unable to escape grapple with shortages of food and other essentials, surviving […]

KARACHI, May 09 (APP):Afghan Commerce Minister, Nooruddin Azizi on Tuesday said Pakistan and Afghanistan enjoy friendly relations and this relationship was strengthening the bilateral trade between the two brotherly Muslim countries. Speaking at a meeting with Members of Pakistan Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce and […]

LABUAN BAJO: Southeast Asian nations are at a “crossroad,” a senior Indonesian minister warned Tuesday, as escalating violence in junta-controlled Myanmar loomed over a regional summit. Myanmar has been ravaged by deadly violence since a military coup deposed Aung San Suu Kyi’s government more than […]

ISLAMABAD, May 9th (Online): Information Minister Maryam Aurangzeb has said, Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif has extended his stay in London by one day. Maryam Aurangzeb has said in a tweet, on advice by supremo Nawaz Sharif, PM Shehbaz Sharif has extended his stay in […]

NEW DELHI 07 May (Online): Some 23,000 people have fled ethnic violence in northeast India that has reportedly killed at least 54 people, the army said on Sunday, although there was no new “major violence” overnight. The unrest in Manipur state erupted after a protest […]

BANKOK 07 May (Online): Many Thais have lined up in long queues to vote early in parliamentary elections scheduled for May 14. More than 2 million Thais registered for early voting on Sunday out of 52 million eligible voters who are aged 18 and above, […]

UNITED NATIONS, May 07 (APP):Pakistani peacekeepers serving MONUSCO, the United Nations stabilization mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in coordination with other UN agencies, are providing relief to the flood-affected people in the country’s Kalehe territory, according to a report received in New […]