French police have conducted a series of raids targeting Islamist networks, three days after the beheading of a history teacher who had shown his
Pak PM fears 2nd Covid-19 wave in coming months
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed fears over a second Covid-19 wave in the country in the coming months due to a resurgence
China’s super rich got $1.5 tn richer during pandemic
The country now has a total of 878 billionaires. The US had 626 people in the top bracket at the start of the year,
Japan’s PM arrives in Indonesia to affirm deeper ties
Hand signals only: How Thais are marshalling mass protests
UAE govt delegation heads to Israel for 1st official visit
The first-ever official United Arab Emirates delegation to Israel set off on Tuesday after the two countries normalised ties last month under a US-brokered
‘No publishing proclamation against Sharif in UK newspapers’
Brazil’s Bolsonaro ‘indirectly’ censors media: RSF
The watchdog group said in its quarterly report that Bolsonaro and his inner circle, including his three politician sons, had verbally attacked journalists and
Swelled by rain & Covid curbs, locust swarms Ethiopia
“They never left for a week. We are left with an empty harvest, we tie our waist and cry day and night. How can
Teacher’s beheading: France closes Paris mosque
The mosque in a densely-populated suburb northeast of Paris had disseminated a video on its Facebook page days before Friday’s gruesome murder, railing against
Shehbaz Sharif sent to jail in money laundering case
Shehbaz, the younger brother of three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on September 28 after a
Nawaz Sharif’s daughter booked for holding anti-govt rally
Russia offers US one-year freeze on nuclear warhead numbers
Spain to receive 31.6 m doses of AstraZeneca Covid vaccine
Hong Kong eases social-distancing measures after cases decline
5 killed, 9 injured in blast in central Afghanistan
Pakistan’s fate at FATF hangs in the balance
Pak Army chief orders inquiry into ‘incident’ involving Sharif’s kin
Jeffrey Toobin suspended by the New Yorker, steps away from CNN
Author-commentator Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended by the New Yorker and is stepping away from his job as CNN’s senior legal analyst pending what
Jamal Khashoggi fiancee sues Saudi prince in US over murder
None to be charged with murder of three Sikhs in London
Not one person will be charged with the murder of three British Sikh builders from Punjab who were stabbed to death in an East
French court tries Russian for cyberfraud
Prosecutors say Alexander Vinnik sent emails to his targets masquerading as invoices, whose attached document, when opened, activated malware that shut down the computer
More than 250,000 coronavirus deaths in Europe
European nations have ratcheted up restrictions on daily life to tackle soaring infections, with a 44 percent increase in cases this week.Nighttime curfews on
Global virus cases surpass the 40 million milestone
New cases are growing at over 150,000 a day in Europe, as many countries including Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland, Ukraine, Cyprus, and the
‘Imran Khan has ‘lost’ Karachi after PDM jalsa’
‘Not afraid’: France rallies after beheading of teacher
Demonstrators on the Place de la Republique held aloft posters declaring: “No to totalitarianism of thought”, and “I am a teacher” in memory of
Thai police order media probes over protest coverage
The announcement prompted anger from media groups and accusations of an attack on press freedom by the government of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the
Imran Khan incapable and clueless: Oppn leaders
PM Imran Khan is “incapable and clueless”, and his govt is worse than a dictatorship, Pakistan’s opposition leaders said at the second rally of
Bolivia ‘has recovered democracy’, says Arce
By an unexpectedly large margin, Arce prevailed over centrist Carlos Mesa, who obtained 31.5 per cent according to the poll and guaranteed a return