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Washington, Sept 27 (AFP/APP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday defended military sales to Pakistan after withering criticism from growing US partner India, which considers itself the target of Islamabad’s F-16 planes. Blinken met in the US capital with India’s foreign minister a […]

MOSCOW – September 26 (ONLINE) At least six people have been killed and 20 injured during a shooting at a school in the Russian city of Izhevsk, Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported, citing local police. The Udmurtia branch of the interior ministry said the […]

Seoul, Sept 26 (AFP/APP):South Korea and the United States began their first combined naval exercise near the peninsula in five years on Monday, leading to a warning by North Korea that the allies risked triggering war. South Korea’s hawkish President Yoon Suk-yeol, who took office […]

Tripoli, Sept 26 (AFP/APP): Five people were killed and 13 wounded in gun battles in the western Libyan town of Zawiyah, the latest unrest in the troubled North African nation, medics said Monday. Fighting late Sunday broke out between rival forces equipped with heavy weapons, […]

Rawalpindi (ISPR) A Pakistani army helicopter crashed during flying mission near Khost , Harnai Balochistan late last night . All 6 personnel on board including 2 pilots have embraced shahadat. Shaheeds include Maj Muhammad Muneeb Afzal – Pilot Maj Khurram Shahzad – Pilot Naik Jalil […]

Manila, Sept 25 (AFP/APP):Super Typhoon Noru slammed into the Philippines Sunday, battering the heavily populated main island of Luzon with strong winds and heavy rain that have forced thousands of people to flee their homes. The storm was packing maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometres […]

The Hague, Sept 25 (AFP/APP): Alleged Rwandan genocide financier Felicien Kabuga will go on trial in The Hague on Thursday, one of the last key suspects in the 1994 ethnic slaughter that devastated the small central African nation. Kabuga’s trial will open at 0800 GMT […]

Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sept 25 (AFP/APP): A volunteer organisation run by ex-soldiers, Mozart says it wants to save lives in Ukraine by offering aid and military training — choosing its name as a “tongue in cheek” nod to the notorious Russian paramilitary group Wagner. The […]

JAKARTA, Sept. 24 (Xinhua/APP): A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia’s western province of Aceh on Saturday morning, but did not leave casualties or damages, an agency and an official said. The country’s meteorology and geophysics agency did not issue a tsunami warning. The quake jolted […]

Damascus, Sept 22 (AFP/APP): At least 34 migrants died when the boat they were travelling in sank off Syria’s coast after departing from neighbouring Lebanon, the government in Damascus said on Thursday. Lebanon, a country which hosts more than a million refugees from Syria’s civil […]