NABLUS: Israeli troops killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the latest deaths in a surge of violence in the territory since early last year. “Three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bullets in Nablus,” the ministry said, adding the identities of thoseContinue Reading
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan authorities have initiated criminal proceedings against six officials who allegedly accessed the personal information of Army chief General Asim Munir‘s family, a media report said on Saturday.The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), the top national body tasked with issuing national identity cards and passports by storing dataContinue Reading
UMAN: Russian strikes battered cities across Ukraine on Friday, killing 26 people including five children, as Kyiv said preparations for a counter-offensive against Moscow’s forces were nearly complete. The deadly new attacks included a strike on a residential block in the historic city of Uman in central Ukraine, where AFPContinue Reading
PARIS: France said on Monday it was closing its embassy in Sudan, where clashes between the army and paramilitary forces have sparked evacuations of foreigners. The French mission in Khartoum will be shut “until further notice”, the foreign affairs ministry said, and would no longer serve as a rallying pointContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: The US military said it carried out precision airstrikes in eastern Syria on Thursday in response to a drone attack that killed one American contractor and injured five US service personnel. A Department of Defense statement said the US contractor had been killed and the others wounded “after aContinue Reading
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s military said on Thursday it had found the remains of a probable crashed weather balloon likely from China on a remote and strategically located island near the Chinese coast, amid a dispute between China and the United States over spy balloons.Taiwan, claimed by China as its own territory,Continue Reading
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf’s death in Dubai on Sunday from the ravages of a rare and debilitating disease marks the end of a roller-coaster and often unlikely journey that saw him transition from four-star general to military dictator to wannabe statesman to a pariah standing trial for treason.Musharraf,Continue Reading
KYIV/VOLGOGRAD: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged European leaders visiting Kyiv on Thursday to pile more sanctions on Russia, where President Vladimir Putin evoked a famous World War Two victory over the Nazis to rally his nation. The West has imposed sweeping punitive measures since Russia’s nearly year-old invasion of UkraineContinue Reading
PESHAWAR/ISLAMAD: Pakistan’s security agencies arrested 17 suspects in connection with the suicide blast in a high-security zone mosque in Peshawar that killed 101 people, including 97 policemen, as Army chief Gen Asim Munir vowed zero tolerance for terror groups and directed his generals to eliminate the threat of militancy. AContinue Reading
After two years of tense peace, hundreds of Chinese troops have encroached upon what India perceives to be its side of the border before being stopped in a battle involving branches, bricks and iron bars. Now India’s in uproar, convinced a looming war with China is all but inevitable. InContinue Reading