World

Geneva, June 22 (AFP/APP):Rights groups appealed Wednesday for the next UN rights chief to be appointed through a swift, open process, calling for a “courageous” nominee to stand up to powerful countries. More than 60 non-governmental organisations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 22 (APP): Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Munir Akram has called on the world community to rise “above political considerations”, and help Afghanistan in the wake of the deadly earthquake that rocked two provinces in the east of the country early Wednesday morning. “The […]

Sharan, Afghanistan, June 22 (AFP/APP): Bibi Hawa’s face is distorted by tears as she tries to grasp her predicament from a hospital bed in Sharan, capital of Afghanistan’s Paktika province. At least a dozen members of her family were among over 1,000 people killed by […]

Tshumbe, DR Congo, June 22 (AFP/APP): The coffin of slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba returned to his home region on Wednesday for an emotionally charged tour and burial, more than six decades after his assassination. A plane took Lumumba’s mortal remains — a tooth […]

TAL AVIV, Israel – June 22 (ONLINE) Israel’s former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who lost power last year, may return to power this fall, a report from The New York Times revealed Wednesday. “My friends and I will form a national government,” Netanyahu said in […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, June 21 (AFP/APP): Moscow on Tuesday warned Lithuania of “serious” consequences over its restriction of rail traffic to Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave, as Kremlin forces made gains in Ukraine’s strategic Donbas region. The row over Lithuania, the arrival of sophisticated German weaponry in Ukraine’s […]

Quito, June 21 (AFP/APP): Police used tear gas Tuesday to disperse hundreds of Ecuadorans protesting in the capital Quito on the ninth day of Indigenous-led fuel price protests that the military described as a “grave threat.” Some 500 protesters among thousands who arrived in the […]

Rome, June 21 (AFP/APP): Italy’s Five Star Movement, the biggest party in Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s government, on Tuesday looked on course to split over long-running tensions exacerbated by attitudes to the Ukraine war. Dozens of lawmakers have signed up to form a new group […]

London(PID, AJK) President Azad Kashmir Barrister Mehmood Chaudhry on Friday presented a memorandum to the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to use his political and diplomatic clout to resolve the lingering dispute in line with Kashmiris’ wishes and aspirations. Seeking an early and […]

KYIV (Ukraine) – June 8 (ONLINE) Ukrainian forces struggled to hold their ground in bloody street-to-street fighting in the eastern frontline city of Sievierodonetsk as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the situation was difficult, also pledging to retake Russia’s gains. The days-long battle for the industrial […]