INCHEON: A local court on Wednesday sentenced the captain of a Chinese fishing boat to one year and six months in prison for operating illegally in South Korea's western territorial waters in…
QUETTA: The 5th Pak-Iran Permanent Border Committee Meeting Wednesday started in the Iranian city Zahedan. The Pak-Iran mutual border affairs, security issues, trade activities in villages located at the border would be…
BAGHDAD: Iraq's biggest tribe has appealed for weapons to defend itself against the Islamic State jihadist group after several of its members were abducted and killed in a central desert…
BRUSSEL: Several key EU leaders will hold crisis talks on migration in Brussels on Sunday to try to find answers ahead of a major summit next week, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker…
SEOUL: A group of South Korean government officials and civilians crossed into the North Korea border town of Kaesong Wednesday for the second day in a row to work on repairs for…
ISLAMABAD): As many as 1,691 women candidates have filed nomination papers for participating in general elections 2018 including 436 contesting for National Assembly slots and 1,255 for provincial assemblies as…
KARACHI: Prime Minister Justice (retd) Nasir ul Mulk visited the mausoleum of the founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah here on Wednesday. KARACHI: Caretaker Prime Minister paid tribute to the…
PESHAWAR: Six Appellate Tribunals (AT) of Peshawar High Court (PHC) have commenced proceedings in the province and started receiving appeals from the candidates against decisions of Returning Officers (ROs) to…
MANHATTAN: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has voiced his regret over Tuesday's U.S. decision to pull out of UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) after accusing the 47-member, the Geneva-based body of a…
KABUL: More than 5.2 million Afghan refugees have returned to their militancy-plagued country over the past 16 years, said a statement of UN Refugee Agency, the UN High Commissioner for…
DUSHANBE: President Mamnoon Hussain on Wednesday visited the National Museum of Tajikistan here in Dushanbe. The museum building consists of 22 small and large exhibition halls that exhibit nature, antiquity, the Middle…
QUETTA: Election Commissioner Balochistan, Niaz Ahmed Baloch on Wednesday said the scrutiny process of the nomination papers filed by the candidates for general election 2018 has been completed in the province. He…
UNITED NATIONS: Israel has taken no steps to cease settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory as demanded by a United Nations Security Council Resolution, a senior UN official has…
ADDIS ABABA: The two figures at the centre of the civil war that has ravaged South Sudan are scheduled to meet on Wednesday for the first time in nearly two years. Ethiopia, which…
CARACAS: Venezuela's all-powerful Constituent Assembly on Tuesday elected Diosdado Cabello as its new president, a month after he was slapped with US sanctions. Cabello, deputy leader of the ruling Socialist Party, was elected…
MESEBERG (Germany): German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday to hammer out reforms that can stop the "disintegration" of the European Union, torn by populist forces and deep…
LONDON: Hussain Nawaz, son of former prime minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Monday said his mother Kalsoom Nawaz's health condition was critical and she had been placed on a ventilator for an…
WASHINGTON: Five US states are refusing to deploy National Guard troops to the US-Mexico border amid a growing outcry over a controversial immigration policy of President Donald Trump's administration that has…
OTTAWA: Canada said Tuesday it was "troubled" by the US practice of separating immigrant children from parents detained after crossing the US-Mexico border, warning that it could put the US's safe-haven status…
LONDON: Prince Harry and his new wife Meghan will make their first overseas engagement as a married couple when they visit Ireland in July, their Kensington Palace office announced Tuesday. "The Duke…
NEW YORK: The Business Roundtable, which represents the biggest US companies, called on the Trump administration Tuesday to "immediately" end its immigration practice of separating children from parents. "Business Roundtable…
MEXICO CITY: Mexico strongly condemned US President Donald Trump's administration Tuesday for its policy of separating immigrant children and parents detained after crossing the US-Mexican border, calling it "inhuman." "In the…
MESEBERG (Germany): German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday firmly rejected US President Donald Trump's assertion that immigration is fueling a rise in crime in Germany, citing official national data. "My response is that…
MANAGUA: Nicaraguan police and pro-government paramilitaries moved to reassert control over the city of Masaya by force Tuesday after residents of the opposition bastion declared themselves in rebellion against President Daniel Ortega.…
