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Moscow, April 22 (AFP/APP): Russian authorities on Friday declared opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza a “foreign agent” and ordered his pre-trial detention for allegedly spreading false information about the Russian army amid its military campaign in Ukraine. Moscow’s Basmanny district court ordered that the 40-year-old Kremlin […]

ISLAMABAD – April 22 (ONLINE) Federal Minister Chaudhry Salik Hussain has been given the charge of Chairman of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority. According to details, Salik’s designation will have an equal rank to Federal Minister. In the past, General Retired Asim Saleem […]

MOSCOW – April 22 (ONLINE) The European Union currently has no plans of introducing a collective ban on Russian oil supplies, because several EU members threatened to veto this initiative, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell told the LENA news […]

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 22 (APP): Over the past two months, Ukraine has seen “suffering, devastation, and destruction on a massive scale”, the UN Crisis Coordinator for the country said Thursday, echoing the world body’s chief’s words, “we must stop the bloodshed and destruction”. “At least […]

Kabul, April 21 (AFP/APP):A blast Thursday at a mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif city in Afghanistan caused dozens of casualties, a Taliban official said, the second attack against a Shiite target in three days. “There are at least 25 casualties,” Zabihullah Noorani, head of Balkh province’s information […]

LOS ANGELES, Apr 20 (XINHUA/APP):A total of 34 people were shot in Los Angeles in a “troubling week,” local media reported Tuesday citing Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department Michel Moore. The police chief told the Los Angeles Police Commission that 23 of the […]

ANKARA – April 20 (ONLINE) Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he told his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog that he was “very upset” by Palestinians injured or killed in the West Bank and Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Since Friday, […]

Colombo, April 19 (AFP/APP): Sri Lanka police shot dead a protester and wounded 24 others on Tuesday in the first fatal clash with residents demonstrating against the government over a crippling economic crisis. The South Asian country is in the grip of its most painful […]

ISLAMABAD, Apr 19 (APP): The Cabinet Division on Tuesday notified the federal cabinet members including the federal ministers, ministers of state and advisors, along with their portfolios assigned by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. The cabinet members, notified by the Cabinet Division, had already been sworn […]

Kabul, April 19 (AFP/APP): At least six people were killed and 24 wounded on Tuesday by two bomb blasts that struck a boys’ school in a Shiite Hazara neighbourhood of the Afghan capital, police and hospital staff said. The number of attacks in the country […]