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BANGKOK Aug 20 (Online): Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is set to return to the kingdom on Tuesday, the same day as a key parliamentary vote could end a political deadlock, his daughter said. The 74-year-old billionaire was ousted in a 2006 military coup […]

Cairo, Aug 20 (AFP/APP): Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma, a leading figure of the country’s 2011 uprising who has spent the last decade behind bars, has been granted a presidential pardon, lawyers said Saturday. “President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi… has used his constitutional powers” to pardon several […]

Kabul Aug 18 (Online): The International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) spokesperson said they may end financing 25 Afghan hospitals due to shortage of funding and growing concerns over a plunge in aid to Afghanistan. Further spokesperson Diogo Alcantara said “although we continue to engage […]

STOCKHOLM, Aug 18 (XINHUA/APP): Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Friday that the government had thwarted several terrorist attacks. “We know that planned acts of terrorism have been hindered,” Kristersson said at a press conference, hours after the Swedish Secret Service’s decision to raise […]

MANAMA Aug 17 (Online): As Iranian seizures threaten oil tankers plying the Gulf, the United States is raising its military presence — a move long demanded by Gulf Arab states who accused Washington of retreating from the region. Three thousand additional US personnel on troop-landing […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]