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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 […]

Stockholm, Sept 11 (AFP/APP):Swedes began voting in legislative elections Sunday that will either pave the way for an unprecedented right-wing government supported by the far right or a third straight mandate for the ruling Social Democrats. Opinion polls have predicted a close race with a […]

NEW YORK 09 Sep (Online): Austrian politician Turk will be replacing Chilean politician Michelle Bachelet, whose term ended on August 31. The United Nations General Assembly has approved a veteran Austrian diplomat to be the global body’s human rights chief and its advocate for adherence […]