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UK foreign secretary says raised human rights on China visit

Posted on August 30, 2023 by Hooriya Qureshi

Beijing, Aug 30 (AFP/APP): British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said he had raised human rights concerns at “every single one” of his meetings with top Chinese officials, as he made a state visit to Beijing on Wednesday. Cleverly, the first UK foreign minister to visit […]

Final preparations under way for Fukushima water release

Posted on August 30, 2023 by Tuba Zafar

Tokyo, Aug 23 (AFP/APP): Final preparations to discharge waste water from the crippled Fukushima power plant in Japan were under way Wednesday, its operator said, a day before the scheduled release into the Pacific Ocean. Tokyo had announced on Tuesday that the operation would begin […]

Islamabad High Court suspends PTI chairman’s imprisonment sentence in Toshakhana case

Posted on August 30, 2023 by Tuba Zafar

ISLAMABAD, Aug 29 (APP): The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday suspended the imprisonment sentence of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan in the Toshakhana criminal case and ordered to release him on bail. The two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood […]

Libya suspends foreign minister over secret meeting with Israeli counterpart

Posted on August 29, 2023 by Tuba Zafar

Tripoli, Aug 28 (Online): Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh has suspended his foreign minister Najla al-Mangoush over a meeting with her Israeli counterpart. The Speaker’s Office in parliament had accused Najla Mangoush of grand treason, and Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah referred her for […]

Two dead, 56 injured in Romania gas station blasts

Posted on August 28, 2023 by Tuba Zafar

Bucharest, Aug 27 (AFP/APP): Prosecutors opened an inquiry Sunday into two explosions at an unlicensed liquefied petroleum gas filling station that left two people dead and 56 people injured north of Romania’s capital Bucharest at the weekend. Most of the injured were firefighters who rushed […]

Xi, Modi hold rare sitting for China-India border

Posted on August 26, 2023 by Tuba Zafar

BEIJING Aug 25 (Online): Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held “candid and in-depth” talks to ease tensions along their disputed frontier, Beijing said on Friday, after a rare face to face encounter between the two leaders. Relations between the world’s […]

Chief Election Commissioner decides not to meet President Arif Alvi

Posted on August 24, 2023 by Hooriya Qureshi

ISLAMABAD, AUG 24 (ONLINE): Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja has decided not to meet President Arif Alvi. The meeting held under CEC has concluded. The meeting was attended by members and secretary Election Commission (EC). The meeting reviewed the invitation of President Arif […]

Indian envoy evades question on Kashmir at a presser focusing on India’s moon landing

Posted on August 24, 2023 by Tuba Zafar

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 23 (APP): India’s UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj parried a question on the Kashmir dispute at a special press conference she convened at the UN Headquarters in New York on Wednesday to highlight her country’s success in landing its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the […]

Absent Trump expected to steal show at Republican debate

Posted on August 24, 2023 by Tuba Zafar

Milwaukee, Aug 23 (AFP/APP): Eight Republican presidential candidates face off for the first primary debate of the 2024 cycle on Wednesday — with frontrunner Donald Trump bidding to steal the spotlight despite spurning the showdown. The former president announced at the weekend that he would […]

Trump plans to turn himself in on Thursday over Georgia indictment

Posted on August 23, 2023 by Tuba Zafar

WASHINGTON Aug 22 (Online): Former US president Donald Trump plans to surrender on Thursday in Atlanta in connection with his indictment in Georgia on charges he sought to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, he said on social media on Monday. “I’ll be […]

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