Iran names ambassador to Saudi after seven-year gap

TEHRAN 24 May (Online): Iran has named an ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Iranian state media reported on Wednesday, sealing a thaw in relations more than seven years after the regional rivals severed ties. The new envoy, Alireza Enayati, previously served as Iran’s ambassador to Kuwait, […]

Meta hit with record 1.2-billion-euro fine over EU data rules

Dublin, May 22 (AFP/APP): Facebook owner Meta has been fined a record 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) for transferring EU user data to the United States in breach of a previous court ruling, Ireland’s regulator announced on Monday. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which […]

Greece eyes new vote as PM seeks absolute majority

Athens, May 22 (AFP/APP): Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Monday he was seeking a new vote as soon as on June 25 in order to obtain a ruling majority, a day after his party won national elections that failed to produce a single-party government. […]

UN chief warns of progress on human health being “in peril”

UNITED NATIONS, May 21 (APP): UN Secretary-General Sunday warned that despite the headway over the past 75 years, progress on human health in the wake of COVID, climate change, and other challenges, was “in peril”. The UN chief, who was addressing via video-link the annual […]

Turkey, Egypt joins ‘Srinagar G20 Boycott ‘group

ISLAMABAD 21 May (Online): India Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to normalise the controversial action of August 2019 met global resistance after China, now Turkey, and Egypt also ‘decided’ to skip the G20 summit in picturesque Srinagar of Occupied Valley. The Indian efforts suffered a […]

Pakistan strongly condemns storming of Al Aqsa Mosque

ISLAMABAD, May 20 (Online): Pakistan has strongly condemned storming of Al Aqsa Mosque by a member of the Israeli occupation authority and members of the Knesset under protection of Israeli occupation forces. In a statement Saturday, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said violation of […]

Food supplies ‘running low’ in Italy flood areas as death toll rises

Faenza, Italy, May 19 (AFP/APP): The toll from floods that have devastated Italy’s Emilia Romagna region rose to 14 on Friday, amid calls for the government to revive an abandoned project to mitigate the impact of natural disasters. Authorities in Ravenna ordered the immediate evacuation […]