World

London, Nov 14 (AFP/APP):Britain announced Monday that it would cut short its troop deployment with the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Mali after relations with the country’s Russian-backed junta soured. “I can announce that the UK contingent will… now be leaving the MINUSMA mission earlier than […]

Nairobi, Nov 14 (AFP/APP):The United States said Monday it was increasing its reward for information about key leaders of Somalia’s Al-Shabaab to $10 million apiece, a move that follows a spate of deadly attacks by the jihadist group. The US State Department also said it […]

WASHINGTON 13 Nov (Online): President Joe Biden’s Democrats have retained control of the US Senate, according to Edison Research projections, a remarkable midterms election result that defied predictions of a Republican “red wave” over both houses of Congress. US networks late on Saturday called the […]

Ljubljana, Nov 13 (AFP/APP):Slovenians were voting on Sunday in a run-off poll expected to elect the country’s first woman president — a lawyer linked to former US first lady Melania Trump. Natasa Pirc Musar, backed by the centre-left government, is running against ex-foreign minister Anze […]

ISLAMABAD, Nov 12 (APP):Pakistan High Commissioner to Canada Zaheer A. Janjua has hailed the conferment of Canada’s annual Gairdner International Award on eminent Pakistani healthcare professional Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta for his development and evaluation of evidence-based interventions in child and maternal health for marginalised populations. […]

NEW YORK, Nov 12 (APP):The United States has returned 192 stolen antiquities — valued at nearly $3.4 million — to Pakistan, after an investigation into a notorious Indian-American art dealer, Subhash Kapoor, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office in New York announced Friday. The announcement said […]

ISTANBUL 11 Nov (Online): Turkish police found five dead Afghan nationals with stab wounds in a house in Ankara, government-owned Anadolu Agency and other media reported on Thursday. The Ankara governor’s office said on Twitter an investigation was underway into the death of five people […]

Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Nov 11 (AFP/APP):Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday called on post-Soviet countries in resource-rich Central Asia to ramp up ties with Ankara as he sought to take advantage of a weakening Moscow bogged down in Ukraine. “We are going through a fragile […]

DUBAI 10 Nov (Online): Iran’s intelligence minister told its regional rival Saudi Arabia on Wednesday that there is no guarantee of Tehran continuing its “strategic patience,” according to semi-official Fars news agency. “Until now, Iran has adopted strategic patience with firm rationality, but it cannot […]

Atlanta, Nov 9 (AFP/APP):The US Senate contest in Georgia that could determine which party controls the upper chamber of Congress is headed for a December runoff, media projections showed on Wednesday. Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock, a Black pastor at a historic church, and Republican challenger […]