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Around 45,000 Muscovites fight in Ukraine: Mayor

Posted on August 18, 2023 by News Desk

MOSCOW Aug 17 (Online): Tens of thousands of Muscovites are taking part in combat operations in Ukraine, the Russian capital’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Wednesday, giving a rare estimate of the forces deployed. Russia and Ukraine rarely communicate on the total number of troops […]

Hawaii official say ‘no regrets’ about lack of wildfire sirens

Posted on August 18, 2023 by News Desk

ISLAMABAD Aug 17 (Online): Embattled officials in Hawaii who have been criticised for the lack of warnings as a deadly wildfire ripped through a town insisted on Wednesday that sounding emergency sirens would not have saved lives. At least 110 people died when the inferno […]

Pakistan is moving towards political and economic stability, Masood Khan

Posted on August 18, 2023 by News Desk

NEWYORK, August 17 (Online): Masood Khan, Pakistan’s ambassador to America, has said that Pakistan is moving towards political and economic stability. On Independence Day, Pakistan’s Ambassador Masood Khan unfurled the Pakistani flag and New York City while Mayor Eric Adams hoisted the American flag. Speaking […]

Another incident of Holy Quran desecration takes place in Sweden

Posted on August 17, 2023 by News Desk

ISLAMABAD Aug 16 (Online): Another incident of desecration of the Holy Quran has taken place outside the Swedish Royal Palace in the capital Stockholm amid a heavy police presence, it emerged on Wednesday. The incident, which took place on Monday, marked the second time in […]

Jamaat-e-Islami leader buried after violent protests in Bangladesh

Posted on August 17, 2023 by News Desk

DHAKA Aug 16 (Online): Around 50,000 people attended Tuesday’s funeral Jamaat-e-Islami leader in Bangladesh, police said, after news of his death while he was in prison for war crimes prompted violent anti-government protests. Delwar Hossain Sayedee, 83, was sentenced to death in 2013 for rape, […]

Syria doubles pay for civil servants, military personnel

Posted on August 17, 2023 by News Desk

Damascus, Aug 16 (AFP/APP): Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has decreed a 100-percent pay rise for civil servants and pensioners while fuel subsidies were lifted in a country ravaged by 12 years of war. The Syrian economy has been battered by the conflict that has killed […]

Moscow shows off seized Western military equipment

Posted on August 17, 2023 by News Desk

Kubinka, Russia, Aug 16 (AFP/APP): In the Moscow region’s Patriot Park, dedicated to the achievements of the Russian army, an officer wearing a green cap stood in front of a captured US MaxxPro armoured vehicle. “It was abandoned on a battlefield because it stopped working,” […]

Over 60 dead in migrant boat sinking off Cape Verde: UN agency

Posted on August 17, 2023 by News Desk

Praia, Cape Verde, Aug 16 (AFP/APP): More than 60 people are believed to have died after a migrant boat from Senegal was found off West Africa’s Cape Verde islands, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday. Sixty-three people are thought to have died, […]

Biden to visit Hawaii as first wildfire victims named

Posted on August 17, 2023 by News Desk

Kahului, United States, Aug 16 (AFP/APP): President Joe Biden will head to fire-ravaged Hawaii next week to meet with survivors and first responders still hunting for bodies, the White House said Wednesday, as the first victims of the horrific blaze were named. The fire, which […]

China issues yellow alert for geological disasters

Posted on August 16, 2023 by Tuba Zafar

YAGON, Aug 16 (XINHUA/APP): Chinese authorities on Wednesday evening issued a yellow alert for possible geological disasters triggered by rain. The Ministry of Natural Resources and the China Meteorological Administration have warned of risks of rain-induced geological disasters in parts of Yunnan in southwestern China […]

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Around 45,000 Muscovites fight in Ukraine: Mayor

Hawaii official say ‘no regrets’ about lack of wildfire sirens

Pakistan is moving towards political and economic stability, Masood Khan

Another incident of Holy Quran desecration takes place in Sweden

Jamaat-e-Islami leader buried after violent protests in Bangladesh

Syria doubles pay for civil servants, military personnel

Moscow shows off seized Western military equipment

Over 60 dead in migrant boat sinking off Cape Verde: UN agency

Biden to visit Hawaii as first wildfire victims named

China issues yellow alert for geological disasters

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