UN’s mission ‘more important than ever’, Secretary-General says at UN Day ceremony
Oct 27, 2020, at 06:24 pm
New York: Seventy-five years after world leaders united to promote global peace and progress through cooperation, representatives from the international community stood in the UN General Assembly Hall on Monday to reaffirm their commitment to this promise.
Libya ceasefire: UN relaunches inclusive political forum, amid growing ‘sense of hope’
Oct 27, 2020, at 06:21 pm
New York: The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has announced the launch of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum, following the signing of a permanent ceasefire agreement in the strife-torn country.
UN shocked and outraged over horrific attack on school in Cameroon
Oct 27, 2020, at 06:00 pm
New York: The United Nations has strongly condemned Saturday’s attack on a school in southwestern Cameroon, which claimed the lives of eight children, and wounded another twelve.
China issue: EU, US launch new bilateral dialogue
Oct 27, 2020, at 05:50 pm
Washington: The European Union and the United States on Friday launched a new bilateral Dialogue between the European External Action Service and the U.S. Department of State on China.
Canada: Indian diaspora demonstrate outside Pakistan Consulate in Toronto on 'Black Day'
Oct 27, 2020, at 05:48 pm
Toronto: Indian diaspora on Saturday gathered outside the Pakistan Consulate in Toronto city and demonstrated against Pakistan’s attack and invasion of Kashmir on October 22, 1947, observed as Black Day.
Nikki Haley describes China as US govt's number one national security threat
Oct 27, 2020, at 05:44 pm
Indian-American Republican politician Nikki Haley on Saturday targeted China and said Beijing is the "absolute number one" national security threat to the US.
National Security Law: Mike Pompeo slams China over dealing with people of Hong Kong
Oct 27, 2020, at 05:40 pm
Washington: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday said the Chinese government 'lied' to people of Hong Kong by saying that they would get 50 years to live in a different political system.
US: Nikki Haley targets Pakistan over 'terrorism' issue
Oct 27, 2020, at 05:37 pm
Washington: Indian-American Republican politician Nikki Haley on Saturday targeted Pakistan and said US President Donald Trump stopped providing "billion dollars" in military aid to Islamabad as it harbours terrorists.
PTM leaders protests detention of Mohsin Dawar
Oct 27, 2020, at 05:31 pm
Quetta: Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement activists recently demonstrated in Quetta against the treatment given to leader Mohsin Dawar on Saturday.
New York honors Punjabi community by co-naming street as Punjab Avenue
Oct 27, 2020, at 05:23 pm
New York: October 23, 2020 will go down as a red-letter day in the history of the Punjabi community of New York when a part of a busy Avenue was named as Punjab Avenue.
5 killed, many injured in blast in mosque in Pakistan's Peshawar
Oct 27, 2020, at 04:02 pm
Islamabad/UNI: At least five people were killed and 55 others injured in a powerful explosion at a mosque in Peshawar, the capital city of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday morning.
US Senate votes to confirm Judge Barrett to Supreme Court
Oct 27, 2020, at 03:18 pm
Washington/UNI: A divided US Senate voted mostly along party line to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump's nominee, to the Supreme Court, succeeding late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Nikki Haley describes China as US govt's number one national security threat
Oct 27, 2020, at 04:28 am
Indian-American Republican politician Nikki Haley on Saturday targeted China and said Beijing is the "absolute number one" national security threat to the US.
National Security Law: Mike Pompeo slams China over dealing with people of Hong Kong
Oct 27, 2020, at 04:23 am
Washington: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday said the Chinese government 'lied' to people of Hong Kong by saying that they would get 50 years to live in a different political system.
Hong Kong Conflict: China threatens to stop recognizing BN (O) passport
Oct 27, 2020, at 04:08 am
Beijing: The Chinese government has threatened to stop recognising the BN (O) [British National (Overseas)] passports, marking the start of a new episode in the conflict between Hong Kong and Beijing.
Saskatchewan, third Canadian province heading to polls during COVID-19 pandemic
Oct 27, 2020, at 02:49 am
Saskatchewan/IBNS: Saskatchewan's 29th provincial election polls, Canada's third provincial election during the COVID-19 pandemic, opened Oct 29 morning during Saskatchewan Party's seeking for a fourth consecutive mandate, media reports said.
Turkey president Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls for boycott of French goods
Oct 26, 2020, at 11:54 pm
Ankara/UNI: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday appealed the citizens to boycott French goods in the backdrop of bilateral tensions with France.
Coronavirus: Bangladesh registers 15 more deaths, toll reaches 5,818
Oct 26, 2020, at 11:22 pm
Dhaka/UNI: The death toll from coronavirus has reached 5,818 as 15 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours.
Pakistan Army had no weapons during Kargil, claims former PM Nawaz Sharif
Oct 26, 2020, at 10:58 pm
London/UNI: Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has claimed that during 1999 Kargil war the country did not have weapons and the soldiers were sent to the peaks, without food, by a handful of generals.
Singapore's industrial production grows 24.2 pct in September
Oct 26, 2020, at 10:56 pm
Singapore/Xinhua: Singapore Economic Development Board reported on Monday that the country's manufacturing output grew 24.2 percent year on year in September, compared to a revised 15.4 percent rise in August.
150 dead, missing in Vietnam's natural disasters since October
Oct 26, 2020, at 10:48 pm
Hanoi/Xinhua: Landslides, floods and other natural disasters triggered by downpours have left 150 people dead and missing in Vietnam's central and central highlands regions since early October, the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control reported on Monday.
Western Libya sees rallies against Macron's words defending cartoons on Muhammad :Reports
Oct 26, 2020, at 10:27 pm
Moscow/Sputnik: Grand Mufti of Libya Sadiq Al-Ghariani, head of Islamic jurisconsults in the country, has called for organization of a series of demonstrations across western Libya to condemn a recent speech by French President Emmanuel Macron, in which he defended the use of cartoons of Islamic prophet Muhammad as manifestation of freedom of speech, the media reported on Monday.
Pakistan Senate questions legal status of CPEC Authority
Oct 26, 2020, at 06:02 pm
Islamabad: The Pakistani Senate on Friday questioned the legality of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority Ordinance, media reports said.
Pakistan: Students' body condemns police brutality on protesting Pakhtuns in university campus
Oct 26, 2020, at 05:58 pm
Islamabad: The Pakhtun Students Federation (PSF), an allied student wing of Pakistan’s Awami National Party (ANP), has condemned the police baton charge over a peaceful protest in Peshawar University campus last week.
Afghanistan: Magnetic mine blast leave three dead in Kabul
Oct 26, 2020, at 05:40 pm
Kabul: At least three people were killed as a magnetic mine blast rocked Kabul city on Monday, media reports said.
Four children killed in bomb blast in Afghanistan’s Paktika province
Oct 26, 2020, at 04:01 pm
Kabul/Sputnik: A bomb blast in Sharana, the capital of Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika Province, has killed at least four children, Paktika police spokesman Shah Mohammad Aryan told Sputnik.
Afghanistan: UN Mission voices ‘deep revulsion’ over deadly bomb attack on Kabul college
Oct 26, 2020, at 03:44 pm
New York: The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has expressed “deep revulsion” at the killing on Saturday night of at least 24 people, according to latest reports, and injuring of dozens of others in a suicide attack outside an education centre.
Pakistan: Quetta blast leaves three people killed
Oct 26, 2020, at 03:20 pm
Quetta: A remote-controlled bomb explosion in Quetta region of Pakistan on Sunday left at least three people killed, media reports said.
Science, unity and solidarity, key to defeating COVID: UN chief
Oct 26, 2020, at 03:07 pm
New York: Better preparation, listening to the science and acting together in solidarity, are some of the main ways that countries across the world can overcome the on-going COVID-19 crisis, the UN chief told the World Health Summit on Sunday.
UN treaty banning nuclear weapons set to enter into force in January
Oct 26, 2020, at 02:50 pm
New York: In what leading campaigners are describing as “a new chapter for nuclear disarmament”, the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will now come into force on 22 January, after Honduras became the 50th Member State to ratify on Saturday.