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Leiria, Portugal, Sept 13 (AFP/APP): Five years after Portugal’s deadliest wildfire, which claimed 63 lives, a court on Tuesday acquitted 11 people accused of negligent homicide over the tragedy. The fires broke out in the central Leiria region during a heatwave in June 2017 and […]

Amman, Sept 13 (AFP/APP): The bodies of two people were recovered after a four-storey residential building collapsed in Jordan’s capital Tuesday, authorities said, adding that 14 more were rescued but others remained trapped. Security spokesman Amer al-Sartawy told state television that the latest toll from […]

MAKKAH 13 Sep (Online): Saudi authorities have arrested a man who claimed to have travelled to the holy city of Makkah to perform an Umrah pilgrimage on behalf of the late Queen Elizabeth II. The man, a Yemeni national, on Monday published a video clip […]

New Delhi, September 13 (ONLINE): In India, where child rape cases have increased by 336% in the past 10 years, a three-and-a-half-year-old nursery student is the fresh victim who was raped by her school bus driver inside the vehicle in the Indian state of Madhya […]

WASHINGTON – September 13 (ONLINE) Iran has taken “a step backward” with its latest response to a nuclear deal proposal, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday, calling a near-term agreement “unlikely.” “What we’ve seen over the last week or so in Iran’s response […]

ISLAMABAD, Sep 13 (APP): President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Duarte Pacheo on Tuesday urged the international community, especially the developed countries to help Pakistan recover from the catastrophe of floods. Speaking here at the inaugural session of “The Third Inter-Parliamentary Union Regional Seminar on […]

NEW DELHI – September 12 (ONLINE) THE Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is confident about commercialising its indigenously-developed Lumpi-ProVacInd vaccine against the lumpy skin disease (LSD) virus infecting cattle within “four-five months”. “Agrinnovate India, which is the commercialisation arm for products and technologies developed […]

STOCKHOLM – September 12 (ONLINE) The far-right Sweden Democrats appear to be close to causing a huge upset in the country’s neck-and-neck election cliffhanger. The populist anti-immigration party, which emerged from the neo-Nazi movement in the late 1980s, has increased its polling at each of […]

ISLAMABAD, SEP 12 (ONLINE): Iraq has announced to restore the suspended visas of Pakistani Zaireen travelling to Karbala for Chehlum of Imam Hussain (RA). In an important statement issued by Iraqi embassy in Islamabad Monday it was said availability of air reservation facility for Pakistani […]

WASHINGTON / MOSCOW – September 11 (ONLINE) US President Joe Biden has confirmed he is planning to attend the Queen’s funeral when it takes place in the UK. While no formal plans for Her Majesty’s funeral have been announced yet, the ceremony is expected to […]