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Moscow, April 2 (AFP/APP): A leading Russian military blogger was killed Sunday in an explosion at a cafe in Russia’s second-largest city of Saint Petersburg, the interior ministry said. “One person was killed in the incident. He was military correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky,” the ministry said […]

LAHORE, Apr 1 (APP): The coalition government Saturday demanded that elections across the country should be held on the same day as it was a basic constitutional prerequisite for impartial, transparent and free polls and any deviation from it would create a disastrous political crisis […]

NEW YORK 01 April (Online): Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury after a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, becoming the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges even as he makes another run for the […]

Copenhagen, March 31 (AFP/APP):Pirates who seized a Danish oil tanker off Congo last week have kidnapped six crew and abandoned ship, the French navy said Friday. The Monjasa Reformer had 16 sailors when it was boarded by pirates on March 25. The remaining crew were […]

Montreal, March 31 (AFP/APP): Six people from two families — one of Romanian descent with Canadian passports, the other from India — were found dead in a marsh near the Canada-US border after trying to cross illegally into the United States, police said Friday. Their […]

The Hague, March 30 (AFP/APP): The International Court of Justice on Thursday rejected Iran’s bid to unblock nearly $2 billion in central bank assets frozen by the US, but ruled Washington had illegally seized some other funds. The UN’s top court said Washington’s freezing of […]

KARACHI, Mar 30 (APP): Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s (KMC) former senior director of health and famous eye specialist Dr Birbal Genani was shot dead by unknown suspects here on Thursday. The eye specialist was travelling in his vehicle along with his assistant lady doctor when unknown […]

Geneva, March 29 (AFP/APP): Switzerland on Wednesday signalled readiness to resume talks with the EU towards a cooperation agreement, after shocking its largest trading partner in 2021 by suddenly cutting short years of negotiations. The Swiss government said it had given the green light during […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 29 (APP):The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan must immediately release activists detained for advocating for girls’ and women’s rights, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said Wednesday, expressing alarm over the ongoing arrests. Since the beginning of the year, several civil society activists […]

Taipei, March 29 (AFP/APP): China vowed on Wednesday to “fight back” should Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen meet the US House speaker during a trip to the United States. Tsai left on Wednesday for the United States, from where she will head to Guatemala and Belize […]