WASHINGTON: Global growth is expected to slow "perilously close" to recession in 2023, the World Bank said Tuesday, slashing its economic forecast on high inflation, rising interest rates and Russia's…
BRUSSELS: NATO and the EU vowed Tuesday to bolster their backing for Ukraine to fight off Russia's invasion and ramp up cooperation between Europe and the US-led alliance.Longstanding designs by…
ISTANBUL: Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said that Moscow’s growing relations with Asia is a “nightmare” for the West and its “anti-Russian policy.” “The main political and economic nightmare…
LONDON: After months of anticipation and a sustained publicity blitz, Prince Harry's autobiography "Spare" finally went on sale in his native UK on Tuesday (10th of Jan 2023), threatening more…
WASHINGTON: Classified documents from the time when Joe Biden was serving as Barack Obama's vice president have been found at a Washington think tank that Biden sometimes used as office…
LOS ANGELES: Here are the nominees in key categories for the 80th Golden Globe Awards, which will be handed out on Tuesday (10th day of Jan 2023). "The Banshees of…
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday (9th of Jan 2023) held a telephone conversation with Qin Gang, the newly appointed Foreign Minister of China. Conveying his felicitations on…
KARACHI: Chief Secretary Sindh Dr. Muhammad Sohail Rajput on Monday (9th of Jan 2023) directed the divisional commissioners to take stern action against profiteers. He said this while presiding over…
BERLIN: An Iranian man has been arrested in western Germany suspected of preparing a chemical bomb attack using cyanide and ricin, police and prosecutors said Sunday.Muenster police and the Dusseldorf…
WASHINGTON: Republican favorite Kevin McCarthy was finally elected speaker of the US House of Representatives on Saturday, ending a paralyzing standoff with right-wing holdouts that raised concerns about his party's…
LONDON; Stock markets mostly advanced Friday(6th of Jan 2023) as traders awaited key US jobs data and after news of falling inflation in the eurozone.Global equities have enjoyed a largely…
MEXICO: Ten soldiers and 19 criminal suspects were killed in the operation to arrest Ovidio Guzman, son of jailed drug trafficker Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Mexican government said Friday…
PARIS: France's President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky that his country would send French-made light tanks to help repel the Russian invasion, the French presidency…
LONDON: Global oil prices plunged Wednesday (4th Jan 2023) over China demand concerns and European gas prices sank to their lowest levels since November 2021 as mild winter weather reduced…
RAMALLAH: Palestine on Tuesday (3rd of Jan 2023) condemned a visit by Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem as “unprecedented provocation”.…
KYIV: Russia on Monday said more than 60 soldiers were killed in a Ukrainian strike on Russian-controlled territory in a bloody New Year's weekend for both sides of the conflict.Kyiv…
BEIJING: Before flying out of the US for his new post in Beijing, China’s new Foreign Minister Qing Gang has spoken to his American counterpart calling for a “better China-US…
SYDNEY: Two helicopters collided in mid-air, killing four people Monday (2nd of January, 2022) at Australia’s Gold Coast tourism hotspot, officials said, with images showing one of the aircraft’s rotors…
Kyiv, Ukraine, Dec 31 (AFP/APP):Russian strikes on Saturday targeted Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv, just hours before New Year's Eve celebrations while President Vladimir Putin told Russians that "historical rightness"…
KARACHI: The world's eight billion people have begun ushering in 2023 and bidding farewell to a turbulent 12 months marked by war in Europe, stinging price rises, Lionel Messi's World…
PARIS: Iran's top court has ordered the retrial of a third death row inmate sentenced over the nationwide protests that started more than 100 days ago, the judiciary said Saturday…
ISLAMABAD: Dubai hosted 12.82 million overnight international visitors in the first 11 months of the year, more than 85 per cent of the pre-coronavirus levels during the same period in…
JERUSALEM: Israel's wily political survivor Benjamin Netanyahu, who returned to power Thursday with the backing of far-right and ultra-Orthodox parties, has described protecting the Jewish state as his "life's mission".A…
MANHATTAN: Stepping up the pressure on the Taliban, the UN Security Council has called for the full, equal and meaningful participation of women and girls in Afghanistan, denouncing a ban…
