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London, June 6 (AFP/APP):British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced down a no-confidence vote among Conservative MPs on Monday, after dozens rebelled over a string of alleged scandals that have left the party’s public standing in tatters. The British PM has spent months battling to maintain […]

Chittagong, Bangladesh, June 5 (AFP/APP): At least 34 people have died after a fire that sparked a huge chemical explosion and was still blazing on Sunday at a shipping container depot in Bangladesh, officials said. The toll was expected to rise with over 300 people […]

HONG KONG, June 3 (Xinhua/APP):An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 jolted 142 km WNW of Naha, Japan at 07:03:35 GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 26.7993 degrees north […]

Ramallah, Palestinian Territories, June 2 (AFP/APP):Israeli troops shot dead a teen in the West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the fourth Palestinian killed in the occupied territory in two days. The ministry identified the slain Palestinian as 17-year-old Odeh Odeh, who was […]

Ramallah, Palestinian Territories, June 2 (AFP/APP): Israeli troops killed a Palestinian man in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said. The fighting rocked the Dheisheh camp nar Bethlehem, a ministry statement said, identifying the dead man as […]

Ramallah, Palestinian Territories, June 1 (AFP/APP): A Palestinian was killed in an Israeli raid in the north of the occupied West Bank on Wednesday night, the Palestinian health ministry said. The ministry said the Palestinian died after arriving at a hospital in Jenin in a […]

ISLAMABAD, June 01 (Online): Supreme Court (SC) has accepted bail plea of one Muhammad Ashraf accused in blasphemy case. A two members bench of SC presided over by Justice Qazi Faez Isa took up for hearing the petition filed by Muhammad Ashraf accused in blasphemy […]

RIYADH – June 1 (ONLINE) Saudi Arabia is planning the world’s largest buildings in a mostly unpopulated part of the country as part of an entirely new $500 billion development called NEOM, according to people familiar with the matter, foreign news agency reported. NEOM, the […]

Uvalde, United States, May 31 (AFP/APP):The traumatized Texan town of Uvalde began on Tuesday laying to rest the 19 young children killed in an elementary school shooting that left the small, tight-knit community united in grief and anger. The body of Amerie Jo Garza, 10, […]

Washington, May 31 (AFP/APP): President Joe Biden asked New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for advice Tuesday after the latest US mass shooting but the White House also acknowledged the limitations it faces on gun control compared to its close allies. Meeting in the Oval […]