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Pakistan summons US deputy mission chief over US-India statement
Pakistan summons US deputy mission chief over US-India statement
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Education is every woman and girl's right
Education is every woman and girl's right
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With West Bank in turmoil, new Palestinian militants emerge
With West Bank in turmoil, new Palestinian militants emerge
AP 3 Mar 2023
The stuttering blasts of M-16s shattered the quiet in a West Bank village, surrounded by barley fields and olive groves. Young Palestinian men in Jaba once wanted to farm, residents say, but now, more and more want to fight...Read More
Jury quickly finds Murdaugh guilty of murder of wife, son
Jury quickly finds Murdaugh guilty of murder of wife, son
3 Mar 2023
South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was convicted of murder Thursday in the shooting deaths of his wife and son in a case that chronicled the unraveling of a powerful Southern family with tales of privilege, greed and addiction...Read More
Anwar Kenneth, A Christian on death row for over two decades in a blasphemy case, awaits justice
Anwar Kenneth, A Christian on death row for over two decades in a blasphemy case, awaits justice
by voice For Justice 2 Mar 2023
China looks to consumers to drive economic rebound
China looks to consumers to drive economic rebound
AP 2 Mar 2023
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s agenda for the annual meeting of the ceremonial legislature: Revive the economy by encouraging consumers to spend more now that severe anti-virus controls have ended, and install a government of loyalists to intensify Communist Party control over the economy and society...Read More
Drones that the Kremlin said were launched by Ukraine flew deep inside Russian territory, including one that got within 100 kilometers (60 miles) of Moscow, signaling breaches in Russian defenses as President Vladimir Putin ordered stepped-up protection at the border...Read More
India revives civil militia after Hindu killings in Kashmir
India revives civil militia after Hindu killings in Kashmir
AP 28 Feb 2023
After seven Hindus were killed in early January in two back-to-back attacks in Dhangri village in disputed Kashmir, former Indian army soldier Satish Kumar described his sleepy mountainous village as an “abode of fear.”...Read more
China has ordered closer adherence to the dictates of the ruling Communist Party and leader Xi Jinping in legal education, demanding that schools “oppose and resist Western erroneous views” such as constitutional government, separation of powers, and judicial independence...Read More
Deadly shipwreck in Italy must trigger action to save lives, UN officials say
Deadly shipwreck in Italy must trigger action to save lives, UN officials say
27 Feb 2023
‘A time bomb’: India’s sinking holy town faces grim future
‘A time bomb’: India’s sinking holy town faces grim future
AP 27 Feb 2023
Inside a shrine overlooking snow-capped mountains, Hindu priests heaped spoonfuls of puffed rice and ghee into a crackling fire. They closed their eyes and chanted in Sanskrit, hoping their prayers would somehow turn back time and save their holy — and sinking — town...Read More
Migrant boat breaks up off Italian coast, killing nearly 60
Migrant boat breaks up off Italian coast, killing nearly 60
AP 27 Feb 2023
A wooden boat crowded with migrants smashed into rocky reefs and broke apart before dawn Sunday off the Italian coast, authorities said. Rescuers recovered nearly 60 bodies, and dozens more people were missing in the rough waters...Read more
President, PM condemn Barkhan blast
President, PM condemn Barkhan blast
APP 26 Feb 2023
The local media quoting the police officials said that the explosion apparently took place when an improvised explosive device (IED), planted on a motorcycle, exploded in Rakhni Bazaar. However, they were carrying out further investigation...Read More
Schools resumed classes in Syria’s rebel-held northwest Saturday after closing for nearly three weeks following an earthquake that devastated the region, local officials said, even as many schoolchildren suffer from shock...Read More
Two labourers killed, three injured as shuttering of under-construction Bhara Kahu bridge collapses
Two labourers killed, three injured as shuttering of under-construction Bhara Kahu bridge collapses
APP 25 Feb 2023
ISLAMABAD, Feb 25: The under-construction shuttering of a bridge at Bhara Kahu bypass collapsed on Saturday killing two labourers and injuring three others, who were trapped under the rubble, police said...Read More
German leader seeks Indian support for Russia’s isolation
German leader seeks Indian support for Russia’s isolation
AP 25 Feb 2023
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in the Indian capital on Saturday where he is expected to discuss with the Indian prime minister Russia’s war in Ukraine and ways to boost bilateral economic cooperation, officials said...Read More
N. Korea food shortage worsens amid COVID, but no famine yet
N. Korea food shortage worsens amid COVID, but no famine yet
AP 25 Feb 2023
There’s little doubt that North Korea’s chronic food shortages worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and speculation about the country’s chronic food insecurity has flared as its top leaders prepare to discuss the “very important and urgent task” of formulating a correct agricultural policy...Read More
Turkey steps up rebuilding plans as quake toll nears 50,000
Turkey steps up rebuilding plans as quake toll nears 50,000
Reuters 23 Feb 2023
ANTAKYA, Turkey, Feb 23: Turkey has stepped up plans to house victims of the devastating earthquake which struck its border region with Syria, the interior minister said, as the combined death toll in the two countries crept towards 50,000...Read More
A woman dies every two minutes due to pregnancy or childbirth: UN agencies
A woman dies every two minutes due to pregnancy or childbirth: UN agencies
23 Feb 2023
Every two minutes, a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth, according to the latest estimates released in a report by United Nations agencies today. This report, Trends in maternal mortality, reveals alarming setbacks for women’s health over recent years, as maternal deaths either increased or stagnated in nearly all regions of the world...Read More
10 Palestinians killed, scores hurt in Israel West Bank raid
10 Palestinians killed, scores hurt in Israel West Bank raid
Israeli troops on Wednesday entered a major Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank in a rare, daytime arrest operation, triggering fighting that killed at least 10 Palestinians and wounded scores of others...Read More
Ukrainian president phones Alvi; seeks Pakistan’s support for resolution on conflict
Ukrainian president phones Alvi; seeks Pakistan’s support for resolution on conflict
APP 22 Feb 2023
ISLAMABAD, Feb 22: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday telephoned President Dr Arif Alvi and referring to his ten-point peace formula, sought Pakistan’s support on the draft resolution being tabled in the United Nations General Assembly for ending the Ukraine-Russia conflict...Read More
Russia, China show off ties amid maneuvering over Ukraine
Russia, China show off ties amid maneuvering over Ukraine
AP 22 Feb 2023
Russia and China showcased their deepening ties Wednesday in a series of meetings closely watched for signs that Beijing might offer the Kremlin stronger support for its war in Ukraine.
One month into the invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden stood in the courtyard of a grand Polish castle and laid out the punishing economic costs that the U.S. and its allies were inflicting on Vladimir Putin’s Russia, declaring that the ruble is almost immediately “reduced to rubble.”...Read More
Lent Season 22 Feb 2023
Lent Season 22 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023
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Christian Lent season begins with Ash Wednesday for six week ends on Saturday according to tradition (22 Feb 2023-8 Apr 2023). Ash Wednesday is prayer and fasting day that reminds us the seriousness of prayer for human grievances and repentance for sins. It shows humbleness before God looking for his mercy and grant...Read More
Biden to meet eastern flank NATO leaders amid Russia worries
Biden to meet eastern flank NATO leaders amid Russia worries
AP 22 Feb 2023
President Joe Biden is wrapping up his whirlwind, four-day visit to Poland and Ukraine by reassuring eastern flank NATO allies that his administration is highly attuned to the looming threats and other impacts spurred by the grinding Russian invasion of Ukraine...Read More
ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon
ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon
Reuters 21 Feb 2023
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 21: Until recently, Brett Schickler never imagined he could be a published author, though he had dreamed about it. But after learning about the ChatGPT artificial intelligence program, Schickler figured an opportunity had landed in his lap...Read More
China says certain countries must stop 'fueling the fire' in Ukraine
China says certain countries must stop 'fueling the fire' in Ukraine
Reuters 21 Feb 2023
Beijing 21 Feb: China is "deeply worried" that the Ukraine conflict could spiral out of control, foreign minister Qin Gang said on Tuesday, and called on certain countries to stop "fuelling the fire" in an apparent dig at the United States...Read More
Russia's Putin issues new nuclear warnings to West over Ukraine
Russia's Putin issues new nuclear warnings to West over Ukraine
Reuters 21 Feb 2023
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday delivered a warning to the West over Ukraine by suspending a landmark nuclear arms control treaty, announcing that new strategic systems had been put on combat duty, and threatening to resume nuclear tests...Read More
Jesuit barred from artistic activity after new abuse claims
Jesuit barred from artistic activity after new abuse claims
AP 21 Feb 2023
Pope Francis’ Jesuit religious order has decided to prohibit a prominent Jesuit artist whose mosaics decorate churches around the globe from pursuing his artistic activity after 15 more people came forward with fresh accusations against him of spiritual, sexual and psychological abuse...Read More
Turkey and Syria rocked again by 6.3M earthquake
Turkey and Syria rocked again by 6.3M earthquake
Reuters 20 Feb 2023
ANTAKYA, Turkey Feb 20 : A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the Turkey-Syria border region late on Monday, setting off panic and damaging buildings in Turkey's Antakya city two weeks after the country's worst earthquake in modern history left tens of thousands dead...Read More
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
20 Feb 2023
Islamabad 20 Feb: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Representative in Pakistan Dr. Luay Shabaneh called on Federal Minister for Human Rights Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada today in Ministry of Human Rights, Islamabad...Read More
Record 6,542 guns intercepted at US airport security in 2022
Record 6,542 guns intercepted at US airport security in 2022
AP 20 Feb 2023
The woman flying out of Philadelphia’s airport last year remembered to pack snacks, prescription medicine and a cellphone in her handbag. But what was more important was what she forgot to unpack: a loaded .380-caliber handgun in a black holster...Read More
Biden walks through Kyiv to show resolve ahead of war's anniversary
Biden walks through Kyiv to show resolve ahead of war's anniversary
Reuters 20 Feb 2023
U.S. President Joe Biden walked around central Kyiv on an unannounced visit on Monday, promising to stand with Ukraine as long as it takes, on a trip clearly timed to upstage the Kremlin ahead of the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion...Read More
Key developments in the aftermath of the Turkey, Syria quake
Key developments in the aftermath of the Turkey, Syria quake
AP 19 Feb 2023
As the search and rescue effort for buried survivors of the Feb. 6 earthquake started to wind down in Turkey, demolition teams have moved in to clear the mounds of rubble left by the worst disaster in modern Turkish history...Read More
Ukraine in mind, US frantic to avert Mideast showdown at UN
Ukraine in mind, US frantic to avert Mideast showdown at UN
AP 19 Feb 2023
The Biden administration is scrambling to avert a diplomatic crisis over Israeli settlement activity this week at the United Nations that threatens to overshadow and perhaps derail what the U.S. hopes will be a solid five days of focus on condemning Russia’s war with Ukraine...Read More
China swipes at 'hysterical' U.S. at global security gathering
China swipes at 'hysterical' U.S. at global security gathering
Reuters 18 Feb 2023
China's top diplomat on Saturday accused the United States of violating international norms with "hysterical" behaviour, as a running spat over a suspected Chinese spy balloon bubbled to the fore at a global security conference in Munich...Read More
Earthquake death toll passes 46,000; desperation for signs of life
Earthquake death toll passes 46,000; desperation for signs of life
Reuters 18 Feb 2023
More than 46,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria and the toll is expected to soar, with some 264,000 apartments in Turkey destroyed and many still missing as rescuers listen for signs of life under the rubble...Read More
Russian envoy claims West is determined to destroy Russia
Russian envoy claims West is determined to destroy Russia
AP 18 Feb 2023
A week before the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin’s U.N. ambassador claimed that the West is driven by its determination to destroy Russia and declared: “We had no choice other than to defend our country — defend it from you, to defend our identity and our future.”...Read More
Leopard in Islamabad: Male Leopard is in good health at IWMB’s rescue.
Leopard in Islamabad: Male Leopard is in good health at IWMB’s rescue.
17 Feb 2023
Male Leopard is in good health at IWMB’s rescue and rehab centre. IWMB scientific committee will decide next steps for leopard rehabilitation. Leopard has been named Deeaitchay by IWMB staff ...Read More
Indian child marriage crackdown leaves families in anguish
Indian child marriage crackdown leaves families in anguish
AP 17 Feb 2023
Standing outside the local police station in her village in northeast India, 19-year-old
Nureja Khatun is anxious. Cradling her 6-month-old baby in her arms, she has been
waiting to catch a glimpse of her husband before the police take him away to court.
Syrian women hope earthquake tragedy opens up possibility for peace
Syrian women hope earthquake tragedy opens up possibility for peace
16 Feb 2023
“Without fault, in every group of women, individual or collective, their message was the same: We've had enough. We are exhausted, and we want reconciliation. We want peace. And we hope that during this very dark moment, that it'll be a moment where everyone's hearts and minds are open to the possibilities of peace,” Ahead of a briefing to journalists in New York on Wednesday, Laila Baker...Read More
US values ties with Pakistan, says State Dept official; declines comments on Imran’s U-turn
US values ties with Pakistan, says State Dept official; declines comments on Imran’s U-turn
APP 16 Feb 2023
Washington 16 Feb: A United States State Department spokesperson Wednesday refrained from commenting on former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement absolving the Biden administration of involvement in any conspiracy to oust him from power, saying the U.S. values its long-standing relationship with Pakistan...Read More
Fourth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee on the Multi-Country Outbreak of monkeypox (mpox)
Fourth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee on the Multi-Country Outbreak of monkeypox (mpox)
16 Feb 2023
The fourth meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on the multi-country outbreak of mpox was convened by videoconference, with the Chair and Vice-Chair being present in person on the premises of WHO headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland. Thirteen of the fifteen Members and four of the nine Advisors to the Committee participated in the meeting...Read More
Arizona truck spill of toxic acid closes interstate highway
Arizona truck spill of toxic acid closes interstate highway
Reuters 15 Feb 2023
A tanker truck hauling nitric acid overturned on an interstate highway near Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday, causing a leak of its highly toxic, volatile cargo in a fiery wreck that shut down the road for hours, authorities said...Read More
Govt. urged to take measures to stop mob justice in the name of religion.
Govt. urged to take measures to stop mob justice in the name of religion.
Voice For Justice 15 Feb 2023
Joseph Jansen Chairperson Voice For Justice at UN office
"Pakistan received 15 recommendations from countries in the 3rd cycle, while 12 recommendations in the 4th cycle of its Universal Periodic Review urging Pakistani authorities to take serious legal and administrative measures to prevent the misuse of blasphemy laws"
UN chief: Rising seas risk ‘death sentence’ for some nations
UN chief: Rising seas risk ‘death sentence’ for some nations
15 Feb 2023
“The impact of rising seas is already creating new sources of instability and conflict,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Read More
Valetine's Day in Islamabad
Valetine's Day in Islamabad
Search for earthquake survivors enters final hours in Turkey
Search for earthquake survivors enters final hours in Turkey
AP 14 Feb 2023
The desperate search for earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria entered its final hours Monday as rescuers using sniffer dogs and thermal cameras surveyed pulverized apartment blocks for any sign of life a week after the disaster...Read More
Philippines says China ship used laser against coast guard
Philippines says China ship used laser against coast guard
AP 13 Feb 2023
A Chinese coast guard ship twice hit a Philippine coast guard vessel with a “military-grade laser light” that caused temporarily blinded some of its Filipino crew in the disputed South China Sea, the Philippine coast guard said Monday, calling the act a “blatant” violation of Manila’s sovereign rights...Read More
China needs stronger family-focussed policies to spur births- Chinese expert
China needs stronger family-focussed policies to spur births- Chinese expert
Reuters 12 Feb 2023
China should enhance incentives for people to build families and boost the birth rate as the country's now-falling population could threaten the world's second-biggest economy, a Chinese family planning expert said...Read More
Earthquake death toll tops 28,000, Turkey starts legal action
Earthquake death toll tops 28,000, Turkey starts legal action
Reuters 12 Feb 2023
Rescuers pulled more survivors from rubble on Sunday, six days after one of the worst earthquakes to hit Turkey and Syria, as Turkish authorities sought to maintain order across the disaster zone and started legal action over some building collapses...Read More
‘We must be more vigilant than ever,’ Guterres says on first International Day to prevent violent extremism
‘We must be more vigilant than ever,’ Guterres says on first International Day to prevent violent extremism
12 Feb 2023
Trudeau: US fighter shot down object over northern Canada
Trudeau: US fighter shot down object over northern Canada
AP 12 Feb 2023
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that on his order a U.S. fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” that was flying high over the Yukon, acting a day after the U.S. took similar action over Alaska...Read More
Nicaraguan bishop who refused exile gets 26 years in prison
Nicaraguan bishop who refused exile gets 26 years in prison
AP 11 Feb 2023
Roman Catholic Bishop Rolando Álvarez, an outspoken critic of Nicaragua’s government, was sentenced to 26 years in prison and stripped of his Nicaraguan citizenship Friday, the latest move by President Daniel Ortega against the Catholic church and his opponents...Read More
U.S. shoots down car-sized unidentified object flying above Alaska
U.S. shoots down car-sized unidentified object flying above Alaska
Reuters 11 Feb 2023
A U.S. F-22 fighter jet on Friday shot down an unidentified object flying high over Alaska, U.S. officials said, less than a week after the military brought down a Chinese balloon that had flown across the United States...Read More
NDMA Sent 10th Flight with Relief Assistance to Turkiye
NDMA Sent 10th Flight with Relief Assistance to Turkiye
10 Feb 2023
In wake of deadly earthquake in Turkiye, NDMA has dispatched another relief consignment of 16.5 tons to Turkiye through PIA Boeing-777 from Islamabad International Airport today...Read More
Russia hits targets across Ukraine with missiles, drones
Russia hits targets across Ukraine with missiles, drones
AP 10Feb 2023
Russian forces struck critical infrastructure in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, and launched multiple strikes on energy infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia early Friday as Moscow stepped up its attacks in Ukraine’s south and east and air raid sirens went off across much of the country...Read More
Rescues in Turkey offer moments of relief in quake aftermath
Rescues in Turkey offer moments of relief in quake aftermath
AP 10 Feb 2023
A teenager was pulled largely unscathed from beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in the Turkish city of Gaziantep early Friday, but four days after a catastrophic earthquake killed more than 20,000 the possibility of finding more survivors was rapidly shrinking...Read More
US forces returning to Philippines to counter China threats
US forces returning to Philippines to counter China threats
AP 9 Feb 2023
Once-secret ammunition bunkers and barracks lay abandoned, empty and overrun by weeds — vestiges of American firepower in what used to be the United States’ largest overseas naval base at Subic Bay in the northern Philippines...Read More
Earthquake stuns Syria’s Aleppo even after war’s horrors
Earthquake stuns Syria’s Aleppo even after war’s horrors
AP 9 Feb 2023
For years, the people of Aleppo bore the brunt of bombardment and fighting when their city, once Syria’s largest and most cosmopolitan, was among the civil war’s fiercest battle zones. Even that didn’t prepare them for the new devastation and terror wreaked by this week’s earthquake...Read More
Zelenskyy tells UK ‘freedom will win,’ pushes for warplanes
Zelenskyy tells UK ‘freedom will win,’ pushes for warplanes
AP 8 Feb 2023
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pushed for fighter jets to ensure his country’s victory over Russia in a dramatic speech before the U.K. Parliament, where he also thanked the British people for their support since “Day One” of Moscow’s invasion...Read More
Fears grow for untold numbers buried by Turkey earthquake
Fears grow for untold numbers buried by Turkey earthquake
AP 8 Feb 2023
Rescuers raced against time early Wednesday to pull survivors from the rubble before they succumbed to cold weather two days after an earthquake tore through southern Turkey and war-ravaged northern Syria. The death toll climbed above 7,700 and was expected to rise further...Read More
Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka observes ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day
Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka observes ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day
5 Feb 2023
High Commission for Pakistan to Bangladesh today organized an online event to observe “Kashmir Solidarity Day.” Members of Pakistani diaspora, academics, and local journalists attended the event...Read More
US downs Chinese balloon, drawing a threat from China
US downs Chinese balloon, drawing a threat from China
AP 5 Feb 2023
The U.S. military on Saturday shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast after it traversed sensitive military sites across North America. China insisted the flyover was an accident involving a civilian aircraft and threatened repercussions...Read More
SAMP/T air defense system will be deployed in Ukraine within next two months - Italian foreign minister
SAMP/T air defense system will be deployed in Ukraine within next two months - Italian foreign minister
Ukraine 3 Feb 2023
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has said that an Italian-French SAMP/T air defense system will be deployed in Ukraine within the next two months.
According to Rai News, Tajani said the anti-aircraft missile shield "to protect Kyiv and other strategic areas will be operational in Ukraine within the next seven to eight weeks."
Chill pervades China’s tech firms even as crackdown eases
Chill pervades China’s tech firms even as crackdown eases
AP 3 Feb 2023
A grinding crackdown that wiped billions of dollars of value off Chinese technology companies is easing, but the once-freewheeling industry is bracing for much slower growth ahead...Read More
Pope Francis on Wednesday urged Congo’s people to forgive those who committed “inhuman violence” against them, celebrating a Mass for 1 million people and then hearing firsthand of the atrocities some of them have endured: a teenage girl “raped like an animal” for months; a young man who watched as his father was decapitated; a former sex slave who was forced into cannibalism...Read More
Pakistan arrests prominent political ally of ex-PM Khan
Pakistan arrests prominent political ally of ex-PM Khan
AP 2 Feb 2023
Pakistani police arrested a prominent political figure in an overnight raid on his home near Islamabad days after he accused the former president of the country of plotting to kill ex-prime minister Imran Khan, officials said Thursday...Read More
EU official pushes Musk for Twitter’s progress on new rules
EU official pushes Musk for Twitter’s progress on new rules
AP 1 Feb 2023
A top European Union official told Elon Musk that Twitter needs to make progress in preparing for a new law aimed at curbing hate speech, misinformation and other harmful content, adding pressure on the company to ensure it complies...Read More
India raises defence budget to $72.6 bln amid tensions with China
India raises defence budget to $72.6 bln amid tensions with China
Reuters 1 Feb 2023
India proposed on Wednesday 5.94 trillion rupees ($72.6 billion) in defence spending for the 2023-24 financial year, 13% up from the previous period's initial estimates, aiming to add more fighter jets and roads along its tense border with China...Read More
Ukraine pushes for Western fighter jets after tank deals
Ukraine pushes for Western fighter jets after tank deals
AP 1 Jan 2023
Ukraine won support Tuesday from Baltic nations and Poland in its quest to obtain Western fighter jets, but there were no signs that larger nations like the U.S. and Britain have changed their stance of refusing to provide warplanes to Kyiv after almost a year of battling Russia’s invading forces...Read More
Fate of last ex-cop charged in Floyd murder lies with judge
Fate of last ex-cop charged in Floyd murder lies with judge
AP 1 Feb2023
The attorney for a former Minneapolis police officer who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained a dying George Floyd said in court filings Tuesday that his client is innocent of criminal wrongdoing and should be acquitted on state charges of aiding and abetting murder and manslaughter...Read More
After tank pledges, Ukraine seeks Western fighter jets
After tank pledges, Ukraine seeks Western fighter jets
AP 31 Jan 2023
In the first wave of supplies, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will receive from 120 to 140 tanks of modern Western models – Leopard 2, Challenger 2, M1 Abrams.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said this at an online briefing, an Ukrinform correspondent reports...Read More
Peshawar blast : Death toll rises to 88,over 100 injured
Peshawar blast : Death toll rises to 88,over 100 injured
31 Jan 2023
Pakistan's Review: 42nd Session of Universal Periodic Review 30 Jan 2023
Pakistan's Review: 42nd Session of Universal Periodic Review 30 Jan 2023
30 Jan 2023
On 30 Jan 2023, participation of Pakistan's delegation was encouraged. Delegation of Pakistan attended session presenting law and order situation and legislative progress by the government and National Commission of Human Rights to establish human rights laws in country specially for women and children rights, minority rights, transgender rights and workplace harassment...Read More
Blast kills at least 19 worshippers at mosque in Pakistan's Peshawar
Blast kills at least 19 worshippers at mosque in Pakistan's Peshawar
Reuters 30 Jan 2023
An explosion in a mosque killed at 19 worshippers and wounded dozens more in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday, a hospital official said, and many of the casualties were police officers who had gathered for daily prayers...Read More
UNICEF condoles death of children in boat accident in Kohat
UNICEF condoles death of children in boat accident in Kohat
30 Jan 2023
PESHAWAR: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Monday expressed grief over the tragic death of children in boat capsizing incident in Kohat...Read More
Taxes slow India's solar power rollout but boost manufacture
Taxes slow India's solar power rollout but boost manufacture
AP 30 Jan 2023
In May last year Fortum India, a subsidiary of a Finnish solar developer, won the bid for a solar power project in the state of Gujarat. The project was due to be completed three months ago and would have generated enough electricity for 200,000 homes...Read More
Around 60,000 Australian Sikhs vote for Khalistan Referendum defying Modi
Around 60,000 Australian Sikhs vote for Khalistan Referendum defying Modi
APP 29 Jan 2023
An estimated 60,000 Sikhs here voted for Khalistan Referendum in a strong show of defiance to the Indian government’s attempts to stop the local Sikhs from taking part in the democratic voting system to raise demand for the creation of Khalistan in Indian Punjab...Read More
27 Jan 2023
The Israeli military said that troops were involved in an operation at daybreak to arrest Islamic Jihad militants. The Palestinian presidency reportedly described it as a “massacre”, and announced afterwards that it would suspend security coordination with Israel across the West Bank...Read More
Israel, Gaza fighters trade fire after deadly West Bank raid
Israel, Gaza fighters trade fire after deadly West Bank raid
AP 27 Jan 2023
Gaza militants fired rockets and Israel carried out airstrikes early Friday as tensions soared following an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank that killed nine Palestinians, including at least seven militants and a 61-year-old woman...Read More
BBC film on Indian PM Modi, 2002 riots draws government ire
BBC film on Indian PM Modi, 2002 riots draws government ire
AP 26 Jan 2023
Days after India blocked a BBC documentary that examines Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots and banned people from sharing it online, authorities were scrambling to halt screenings of the program at colleges and restrict clips of it on social media, a move that has been decried by critics as an assault on press freedom...Read More
Top UN woman urges Muslims: Move Taliban into 21st century
Top UN woman urges Muslims: Move Taliban into 21st century
AP 26 Jan 2023
The highest-ranking woman at the United Nations said Wednesday she used everything in her “toolbox” during meetings with Taliban ministers to try to reverse their crackdown on Afghan women and girls, and she urged Muslim countries to help the Taliban move from the “13th century to the 21st.”...Read More
Bank of Canada: rising female participation helping tackle labor shortage
Bank of Canada: rising female participation helping tackle labor shortage
Reuters 26 Jan 2023
More women have joined the Canadian workforce recently, helping offset labor shortages, and one reason could be a program by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government to cut child-care costs, the Bank of Canada said on Wednesday...Read More
Chris Hipkins sworn in as New Zealand’s 41st prime minister
Chris Hipkins sworn in as New Zealand’s 41st prime minister
AP 25 Jan 2023
Chris Hipkins was sworn in Wednesday as New Zealand’s 41st prime minister, following the unexpected resignation last week of Jacinda Ardern...Read More
UN chief calls for worldwide commitment to transforming education
UN chief calls for worldwide commitment to transforming education
25 Jan 2023
Press Conference at Nawaz Sharif Colony Islamabad: Minorities in Pakistan
Press Conference at Nawaz Sharif Colony Islamabad: Minorities in Pakistan
25 Jan 2023
Islamabad 23: Press conference was held by minority leader Sabra at Nawaz Sharif Colony Islamabad against inhuman brutal act of CDA bulldozed their tents beaten people and looted stuff...Read More
As technicians in a distant control room watch on display screens, an automated crane at one of China’s busiest ports moves cargo containers from a Korean freighter to self-driving trucks in a scene tech giant Huawei sees as its future after American sanctions crushed its smartphone brand...Read More
Sheriff seeking what drove ‘mad man’ to shoot up dance hall
Sheriff seeking what drove ‘mad man’ to shoot up dance hall
AP 24 Jan 2023
Investigators searching for a motive Monday in the worst mass shooting in Los Angeles County history said the gunman was previously arrested for illegally possessing a firearm, had a rifle at home, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and appeared to be manufacturing gun silencers...Read More
Five billion people unprotected from trans fat leading to heart disease
Five billion people unprotected from trans fat leading to heart disease
23 Jan 2023
Five billion people globally remain unprotected from harmful trans fat, a new status report from WHO has found, increasing their risk of heart disease and death...Read More
Tensions high over isolated Azerbaijan region
Tensions high over isolated Azerbaijan region
AP 23 Jan 2023
Two years after Azerbaijan and Armenia ended a war that killed about 6,800 soldiers and displaced around 90,000 civilians, tensions between the countries are again high in a dispute over a six-kilometer (nearly four-mile) road known as the Lachin Corridor...Read More
Ten dead in shooting near Los Angeles during Lunar New Year festivities
Ten dead in shooting near Los Angeles during Lunar New Year festivities
Reuters 22 Jan 2023
A man fatally shot 10 people and injured at least 10 others at a ballroom dance venue during a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration late on Saturday near Los Angeles before fleeing the scene, police said...Read More
Israelis press on with protests against new government
Israelis press on with protests against new government
AP 22 Jan 2023
Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government to overhaul the judicial system, measures that opponents say imperil the country’s democratic foundation...Read More
Zelensky on deadly helicopter crash: Every day, Ukraine loses its best people
Zelensky on deadly helicopter crash: Every day, Ukraine loses its best people
Ukraine 21 Jan 2023
President Volodymyr Zelensky, who took part in the funeral ceremony for the leadership and servicemen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who died in the helicopter crash in Brovary, expressed his condolences to their families and noted that Ukraine loses its best sons and daughters every day...Read More
UN says Taliban divided on appeal to restore women’s rights
UN says Taliban divided on appeal to restore women’s rights
AP 21 Jan 2023
"A delegation led by the highest-ranking woman at the United Nations urged the Taliban during a four-day visit to Afghanistan that ended Friday to reverse their crackdown on women and girls. Some Taliban officials were more open to restoring women’s rights but others were clearly opposed, a U.N. spokesman said...Read More
Burkina Faso says 66 women, children freed from extremists
Burkina Faso says 66 women, children freed from extremists
AP 21 Jan 2023
Burkina Faso’s army has freed 66 women and children who were abducted earlier this month by Islamic extremists while gathering food in the country’s northern Sahel region, according to a state television report Friday...Read More
Protests move into Peru’s capital, met by tear gas and smoke
Protests move into Peru’s capital, met by tear gas and smoke
AP 20 Jan 2023
Thousands of protesters poured into Peru’s capital Thursday, clashing with police amid tear gas and smoke and demanding the ouster of President Dina Boluarte. Many came from remote Andean regions, where 55 people have died amid unrest since Peru’s first president from a rural Andean background was removed from office last month...Read More
European Parliament approves resolution to establish tribunal on Russia’s crime of aggression against Ukraine
European Parliament approves resolution to establish tribunal on Russia’s crime of aggression against Ukraine
Ukraine 19 Jan 2023
The European Parliament has approved a resolution in support of the action to set up an international tribunal to bring to justice all those accountable for the crime of aggression against Ukraine...Read More
Pakistan to continue raising voice against human rights abuses in IIOJK: FO
Pakistan to continue raising voice against human rights abuses in IIOJK: FO
APP 19 Jan 2023
Islamabad: Pakistan will continue to raise its voice on the continuing grave human rights abuses in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), said Foreign Office Spokesperson here on Thursday...Read More
Jacinda Ardern steps aside as NZ PM with 'no more in the tank'
Jacinda Ardern steps aside as NZ PM with 'no more in the tank'
Reuters 19 Jan 2023
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday made a shock announcement she had "no more in the tank" to continue leading the country and would step down no later than early February and not seek re-election...Read More
Ukraine offered billions worth of weapons but Germany and U.S. at odds over tanks
Ukraine offered billions worth of weapons but Germany and U.S. at odds over tanks
Reuters 19 Jan 2023
Germany will send German-made tanks to Ukraine so long as the United States agrees to do likewise, a government source in Berlin told Reuters, as NATO partners remained out of step over how best to arm Ukraine in its war against Russia...Read More
Secretary-General Strongly Condemns Abduction of Women, Girls in Burkina Faso
Secretary-General Strongly Condemns Abduction of Women, Girls in Burkina Faso
18 Jan 2023
The Secretary-General strongly condemns the abduction of some 50 women and girls on 12 and 13 January, in the surroundings of Arbinda, in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso, reportedly by unidentified armed groups...Read More
Russian strike toll: 45 dead civilians, including 6 children
Russian strike toll: 45 dead civilians, including 6 children
AP 18 Jan 2023
The death toll from the Ukraine war’s deadliest attack on civilians at one location since last spring, a weekend Russian missile strike on a southeastern apartment building, has reached 45, officials said Tuesday...Read More
GLOBAL RECESSION TIME
by Alvic Asher Alfred Dean
17 Jan 2023
The whole world is going through inflation after Covid that leads towards recession. The World Bank has warned that the global economy is “perilously close to falling into recession". Causes behind this global recession are various but mainly several waves of different types of Covid, war between Ukraine and Russia, Afghanistan and South vs North Korea. Economic growth is falling almost all countries including China and America...Read More
Rain-Snowfall Predicted in Balochistan on 18 & 19 January 2023, (Wednesday and Thursday)
Rain-Snowfall Predicted in Balochistan on 18 & 19 January 2023, (Wednesday and Thursday)
17 Jan 2023
North Balochistan on 18 January 2023, and produce rain/snowfall in parts of Balochistan till 19 January 2023. Under the influence of this weather system...Read More
China's first population drop in six decades sounds alarm on demographic crisis
China's first population drop in six decades sounds alarm on demographic crisis
Reuters 17 Jan 2023
China's population fell last year for the first time in six decades, a historic turn that is expected to mark the start of a long period of decline in its citizen numbers with profound implications for its economy and the world...Read More
China's 2022 economic growth one of the worst on record, post-pandemic policy faces test
China's 2022 economic growth one of the worst on record, post-pandemic policy faces test
Reuters 17 Jan 2023
China's economic growth in 2022 slumped to one of its worst levels in nearly half a century as the fourth quarter was hit hard by strict COVID curbs and a property market slump, raising pressure on policymakers to unveil more stimulus this year...Read More
Ishtiaq Saleem, a Christian sanitary worker from Islamabad was allegedly accused of posting blasphemous content on social media
Ishtiaq Saleem, a Christian sanitary worker from Islamabad was allegedly accused of posting blasphemous content on social media
by Voice For Justice 16 Jan 2023
On 29 November 2022, Ishtiaq Saleem, a Christian sanitary worker from Islamabad was allegedly accused of posting blasphemous content on social media, which led to his arrest...Read More
Flight data, voice recorders retrieved from Nepal crash site
Flight data, voice recorders retrieved from Nepal crash site
AP 16 Jan 2023
Search teams retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice recorders Monday of a passenger plane that plummeted into a gorge on approach to a new airport in the foothills of the Himalayas, officials said, as investigators looked for the cause of Nepal’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years...Read More
Nearly one billion served by healthcare facilities without reliable electricity
Nearly one billion served by healthcare facilities without reliable electricity
16 Jan 2023
Almost 1 billion people around the world are served by health-care facilities with no electricity access or with unreliable electricity. Without reliable electricity in all health-care facilities, #HealthForAll cannot be reached...Read More
MINISTER REHMAN TO REPRESENT PAKISTAN’S CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT AGENDA AT WEF AT DAVOS Islamabad
MINISTER REHMAN TO REPRESENT PAKISTAN’S CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT AGENDA AT WEF AT DAVOS Islamabad
16 Jan 2023
Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Sherry Rehman will be representing Pakistan at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos on their invitation from 16-20 January 2023...Read More
Upcoming UN 2023 Water Conference to help unite the world around water crisis: UN official
Upcoming UN 2023 Water Conference to help unite the world around water crisis: UN official
15 Jan 2023
The UN 2023 Water Conference – formally known as the 2023 Conference for the Midterm Comprehensive Review of Implementation of the UN Decade for Action on Water and Sanitation (2018-2028) – will take place at UN Headquarters in New York, 22-24 March 2023, co-hosted by Tajikistan and the Netherlands...Read More
Travel curbs rack up as COVID-hit China readies reopening
Travel curbs rack up as COVID-hit China readies reopening
Reuters 6 Jan 2023
With China days away from dropping border controls that have effectively shut it off from the rest of the world for three years, countries are lining up to impose curbs on travelers from China to contain its raging COVID-19 outbreak...Read More
Secretary-General Appoints Hanaa Singer-Hamdy of Egypt United Nations Resident Coordinator in Nepal
Secretary-General Appoints Hanaa Singer-Hamdy of Egypt United Nations Resident Coordinator in Nepal
6 Jan 2023
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Hanaa Singer-Hamdy of Egypt as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Nepal, with the host Government’s approval. She took up her post on 1 January...Read More
Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs as layoffs expand in tech sector
Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs as layoffs expand in tech sector
Reuters 6 Jan 2023
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Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) layoffs will now include more than 18,000 roles as part of a workforce reduction it previously disclosed, Chief Executive Andy Jassy said in a public staff note on Wednesday...Read More
Putin calls for Christmas truce in move rejected by Ukraine
Putin calls for Christmas truce in move rejected by Ukraine
Reuters 6 Jan 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Thursday for a 36-hour ceasefire in Ukraine to mark Orthodox Christmas, a move rejected by Kyiv which said there could be no truce until Russia withdraws its troops from occupied land...Read More
India finds 11 Omicron subvariants of COVID-19 in international traveler
India finds 11 Omicron subvariants of COVID-19 in international traveler
Reuters 5 Jan 2023
India detected a total of 11 subvariants of COVID-19 in international travelers who arrived in the country during Dec. 24 to Jan. 3, health ministry sources said on Thursday, adding they were a mix of new and existing variants...Read More
Walgreens, CVS plan to start offering abortion pills
Walgreens, CVS plan to start offering abortion pills
Reuters 5 Jan 2023
Walgreens Boot Alliance Inc (WBA.O) and CVS Health Corp (CVS.N) said on Wednesday they plan to offer abortion pills following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) decision to allow retail pharmacies to offer the drug in the country for the first time...Read More
Pakistan to standby Kashmiris until they exercise right to self-determination: Amb. Munir Akram
Pakistan to standby Kashmiris until they exercise right to self-determination: Amb. Munir Akram
APP 5 Jan 2023
Islamabad: Pakistan will not rest until Kashmiri people realize their UN-pledged right to self-determination through a plebiscite by the UN Security Council resolutions, Ambassador Munir Akram said in a message released in New York...Read More
UN rights chief appeals for end to arbitrary detention
UN rights chief appeals for end to arbitrary detention
5 Jan 2023
“At the start of this year – the 75th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – I call on governments and all detaining authorities, globally, to amnesty, pardon or simply release all those detained for exercising their rights,” ...Read More
TAG-VE statement on the meeting of 3 January on the COVID-19 situation in China
TAG-VE statement on the meeting of 3 January on the COVID-19 situation in China
4 Jan 2023
The Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) meets regularly to review the latest scientific evidence on circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants and advises WHO on whether a change in public health strategies is warranted. The TAG-VE met on 3 January 2023 to discuss the COVID-19 situation in mainland China...Read More
Former Colorado funeral home owner sentenced to 20 yrs for selling body parts
Former Colorado funeral home owner sentenced to 20 yrs for selling body parts
Reuters 4 Jan 2023
A former Colorado funeral home owner was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Tuesday for defrauding relatives of the dead by dissecting 560 corpses and selling body parts without permission...Read More
Russia blames its soldiers' mobile phone use for deadly missile strike
Russia blames its soldiers' mobile phone use for deadly missile strike
Reuters 4 Jan 2023
Russia's defence ministry on Wednesday blamed the illegal use of mobile phones by its soldiers for a deadly Ukrainian missile strike that it said killed 89 servicemen, raising the reported death toll significantly...Read More
Shehbaz, Malaysian PM discuss upcoming moot on Climate Resilient Pakistan
APP 3 Jan 2023
rime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday held a telephone conversation with his Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim wherein they discussed bilateral relations, flood situation in Pakistan, and upcoming International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan taking place on January 9, 2023 in Geneva...Read More
Russian anger grows over strike that killed dozens of troops in Ukraine
Russian anger grows over strike that killed dozens of troops in Ukraine
Reuters 3 Jan 2023
Russian nationalists and some lawmakers have demanded punishment for commanders they accused of ignoring dangers as anger grew over the killing of dozens of Russian soldiers in one of the Ukraine war's deadliest strikes...Read More
U.S. Capitol Police ready for future attacks as Jan. 6 anniversary looms
U.S. Capitol Police ready for future attacks as Jan. 6 anniversary looms
Reuters 3 Jan 2023
U.S. Capitol Police are prepared for any possible future attacks on Congress, its chief said on Monday ahead of the second anniversary of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack and the dissolution of the congressional panel investigating it...Read More
PRESIDENT URGES EXPATRIATES TO UPLIFT AREAS OF THEIR ORIGIN, HIGHLIGHT KASHMIR ISSUE Islamabad
PRESIDENT URGES EXPATRIATES TO UPLIFT AREAS OF THEIR ORIGIN, HIGHLIGHT KASHMIR ISSUE Islamabad
2 Jan 2023
President Dr Arif Alvi has urged Overseas Pakistanis (OPs) to maintain close and strong connections with the people of the areas of their origin, and with their intellect, expertise, experiences, and investments uplift their social, economic and financial outlook...Read More
Ukraine says it shoots down all drones in third straight night of strikes
Ukraine says it shoots down all drones in third straight night of strikes
Reuters 2 Jan 2023
Russian drones targeted infrastructure in Ukraine's capital and surrounding areas on Monday, damaging energy facilities and causing some power outages, officials said, as Russia extended its bombardment into the second day of 2023...Read More
Twenty targets shot down over Kyiv during Russia’s night air attack
Twenty targets shot down over Kyiv during Russia’s night air attack
Ukraine 2 Jan 2023
On the night of January 1-2, Ukrainian air defense forces shot down 20 enemy targets over Kyiv....Read More
China accuses U.S. of distorting facts after aircraft clash
China accuses U.S. of distorting facts after aircraft clash
Reuters 1 Jan 2023
A U.S. military plane involved in a confrontation with Chinese aircraft in disputed southern waters last week had violated international law and put the safety of Chinese pilots at risk, a defence ministry spokesman said...Read More
Time zone by time zone, another new year sweeps into view
Time zone by time zone, another new year sweeps into view
AP 1 Jan 2023
New Year’s celebrations swept across the globe, ushering in 2023 with countdowns and fireworks — and marking an end to a year that brought war in Europe, a new chapter in the British monarchy and global worries over inflation...Read More
Huge crowds of Palestinians mark Fatah anniversary in Gaza
Huge crowds of Palestinians mark Fatah anniversary in Gaza
AP 1 Jan 2023
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians thronged a Gaza City park Saturday to mark the 58th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah party, a rare show of popularity in the heartland of the militant Hamas group, Fatah’s main rival...Read More
Benedict XVI, first pope to resign in 600 years, dies at 95
Benedict XVI, first pope to resign in 600 years, dies at 95
AP 31 Dec 2022
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the shy German theologian who tried to reawaken Christianity in a secularized Europe but will forever be remembered as the first pontiff in 600 years to resign from the job, died Saturday. He was 95...Read More
Arrest of suspect in killings ‘a relief’ to Idaho campus
Arrest of suspect in killings ‘a relief’ to Idaho campus
AP 31 Dec 2022
The fatal stabbings of four students at the University of Idaho shook the college town of Moscow, a small community nestled in the rolling agricultural hills of the Palouse region that hadn’t seen a murder for five years...Read More
WHO urges China to share specific data regularly on COVID situation
WHO urges China to share specific data regularly on COVID situation
Reuters 31 Dec 2022
The World Health Organization on Friday once again urged China's health officials to regularly share specific and real-time information on the COVID-19 situation in the country, as it continues to assess the latest surge in infections...Read More
Sirens wail in Kyiv, governor says drone attack underway
Sirens wail in Kyiv, governor says drone attack underway
Reuters 30 Dec 2022
Residents of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv were urged to head to air raid shelters early on Friday as sirens wailed across the city, a day after Russia carried out the biggest aerial assault since it started the war in February...Read More
Bahamas regulator holds FTX assets pending delivery to customers, creditors
Bahamas regulator holds FTX assets pending delivery to customers, creditors
Reuters 30 Dec 2022
The Securities Commission of the Bahamas said on Thursday that it is holding FTX assets worth $3.5 billion based on market pricing at the time of transfer on a temporary basis to deliver them to customers and creditors who own them...Read More
Analysis: Modi's popularity key to selling cut in food aid ahead of Indian elections
Analysis: Modi's popularity key to selling cut in food aid ahead of Indian elections
Reuters 29 Dec 2022
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's move to effectively halve food rations to the poor ahead of state polls next year and a general election in 2024 is fiscally sound, but politically much depends on whether the charismatic leader can sell it to voters...Read More
Explosions rock Ukrainian cities as Russia launches 'more than 100 missiles' in waves
Explosions rock Ukrainian cities as Russia launches 'more than 100 missiles' in waves
Reuters 29 Dec 2022
Ukraine's recently liberated southern city of Kherson suffered intense mortar and artillery attacks from Russian forces across the Dnipro river, while the Kremlin rejected a Ukrainian peace plan, demanding that Kyiv accept its annexation of four regions...Read More
Still-raging fire at Cambodia hotel casino kills at least 11
Still-raging fire at Cambodia hotel casino kills at least 11
AP 29 Dec 2022
A massive fire raging more than 12 hours in a Cambodian hotel casino killed at least 11 people, injured 30 and apparently trapped others Thursday as neighboring Thailand sent firetrucks to help fight the blaze in a bustling border region...Read More
Moves by the U.S. Japan and others to mandate COVID-19 tests for passengers arriving from China reflect global concern that new variants could emerge in its ongoing explosive outbreak — and the government may not inform the rest of the world quickly enough...Read More
PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS WITH THE PRESIDENT OF TÜRKIYE Islamabad
PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS WITH THE PRESIDENT OF TÜRKIYE Islamabad
29 Dec 2022
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held a telephone conversation with the President of the Republic of Türkiye, H.E. Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , today. The Prime Minister invited President Erdoğan to the International Conference being co-hosted with the United Nations in Geneva on January 9, 2023 in the wake of the recent devastating floods in Pakistan...Read More
Developing countries under Pakistan’s chair successfully achieve “Loss and Damage” fund: FM
Developing countries under Pakistan’s chair successfully achieve “Loss and Damage” fund: FM
APP 29 Dec 2022
Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that the creation of “Loss and Damage” fund under Pakistan’s chairmanship at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27), in Egypt, last month to support the climate disasters hit countries, was a significant achievement...Read More
28 Dec 2022
For Abdullah Mohiuddin, getting into the housing market involves more than just locating the right home for the right price...Read More
Ukrainian forces hit enemy's command post, seven personnel and equipment concentration areas
Ukrainian forces hit enemy's command post, seven personnel and equipment concentration areas
Ukraine 28 Dec 2022
Ukraine's defense forces on Tuesday struck an enemy command post, seven military personnel and equipment concentration areas, two ammunition depots and an important military object...Read More
Chinese hospitals, funeral homes 'extremely busy' as COVID spreads unchecked
Chinese hospitals, funeral homes 'extremely busy' as COVID spreads unchecked
Reuters 28 Dec 2022
Chinese hospitals and funeral homes were under intense pressure on Wednesday as a surging COVID-19 wave drained resources, while the scale of the outbreak and doubts over official data prompted some countries to consider new travel rules on Chinese visitors...Read More
2022 Year in Review: 100 million displaced, ‘a record that should never have been set’
2022 Year in Review: 100 million displaced, ‘a record that should never have been set’
27 Dec 2022
Moscow's ultimatum: Ukraine fulfils its proposals or Russian army will decide
Moscow's ultimatum: Ukraine fulfils its proposals or Russian army will decide
Reuters 27 Dec 2022
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gave Ukraine an ultimatum on Monday to fulfil Moscow's proposals, including surrendering territory Russia controls, or its army would decide the issue, a day after President Vladimir Putin said he was open to talks...Read More
Western NY death toll rises to 28 from cold, storm chaos
AP 27 Dec 2022
Buffalo residents hovered around space heaters, hunted for cars buried in snow drifts and looked for more victims Monday, after 28 people died in one of the worst weather-related disasters ever to hit western New York...Read More
China races to vaccinate elderly, but many are reluctant
China races to vaccinate elderly, but many are reluctant
AP 26 Dec 2022
Chinese authorities are going door to door and paying people older than 60 to get vaccinated against COVID-19. But even as cases surge, 64-year-old Li Liansheng said his friends are alarmed by stories of fevers, blood clots and other side effects...Read More
South Korea’s military fired warning shots and scrambled aircraft after North Korean drones entered the South’s airspace on Monday, South Korean officials said, days after the North launched two ballistic missiles in its latest testing activities...Read More
REBUTTAL/PRESS RELEASE Islamabad; December 26, 2022
REBUTTAL/PRESS RELEASE Islamabad; December 26, 2022
26 Dec 2022
President Dr Arif Alvi has taken notice of the statement wrongly attributed to him about the alleged help extended by the former Chief of Army Staff...Read More
Young Rohingya volunteers confront gender-based violence in crowded Bangladesh camps
Young Rohingya volunteers confront gender-based violence in crowded Bangladesh camps
26 Dec 2022
Gender-based violence has been a pernicious problem here since the population exploded five years ago with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanma...Read More
UN Secretary-General ‘deeply disturbed’ by Taliban’s reported ban on women working for NGOs in Afghanistan
UN Secretary-General ‘deeply disturbed’ by Taliban’s reported ban on women working for NGOs in Afghanistan
25 Dec 2022
A statement issued by Spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said that Secretary-General António Guterres was “deeply disturbed by the reported order of the de facto Taliban authorities" and that the UN chief “reiterates the rights of all women to participate in the workforce thus contributing to the greater good.” ...Read More
Pope’s lament: Icy winds of war buffet humanity at Christmas
Pope’s lament: Icy winds of war buffet humanity at Christmas
AP 25 Dec 2022
Pope Francis used his Christmas message Sunday to lament the “icy winds of war” buffeting humanity and to make an impassioned plea for an immediate end to the fighting in Ukraine, a 10-month-old conflict he decried as “senseless.”...Read More
Shazia Marri felicitates Christian Community on Christmas Day Islamabad; December 24, 2022
Shazia Marri felicitates Christian Community on Christmas Day Islamabad; December 24, 2022
25 Dec 2022
Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety and Chairperson Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Ms Shazia Atta Marri has extended felicitations to the entire nation on the 146th birth anniversary of the father of the nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah will be observed tomorrow and also congratulated to the Christian Community on the occasion of Chirsmas Day...Read More
On Christmas, Christian Children miss their mother, a blasphemy accused
Voice For Justice 24 Dec 2022
adIt has been almost a year and a half since Shagufta’s arrest and this is the second Christmas for the children without their mother. In a letter written by Shagufta to her children, she revealed that she has become very weak and her blood pressure does not remain stable, and her physical and mental condition is not that strong. She lacks capacity to bear separation from her children for long, so she wishes to rejoin her children, and has the desire to enjoy Christmas together like a family yet again...Read More
Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: COVID roils Chinese towns
Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: COVID roils Chinese towns
APP 24 Dec 2022
Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China’s industrial Hebei province, 70 kilometers (43 miles) southwest of Beijing. Her mother-in-law had COVID-19 and needed urgent medical care, but all hospitals nearby were full...Read More
War update: Russian troops open fire on 25 settlements in Bakhmut direction
War update: Russian troops open fire on 25 settlements in Bakhmut direction
Ukraine 24 Dec 2022
United Nations Publishes Final Edition of United Nations Yearbook
United Nations Publishes Final Edition of United Nations Yearbook
24 Dec 2022
The United Nations has published the sixty-ninth and final volume of the Yearbook of the United Nations, representing the most authoritative reference work on the activities and concerns of the Organization in 2015...Read More
Constitution of Pakistan ensures protection of minorities’ rights: Pak Amb
Constitution of Pakistan ensures protection of minorities’ rights: Pak Amb
APP 24 Dec 2022
Islamabad: Ambassador of Pakistan to the United Arab Emirates Faisal Niaz Tirmzi on Saturday said that the constitution of Pakistan, in line with the Quaid’s vision, enshrined freedom and protection of the rights of all communities living in Pakistan...Read More
China's stretched health system braces for peak in COVID infections
China's stretched health system braces for peak in COVID infections
Reuters 23 Dec 2022
China is expecting a peak in COVID-19 infections within a week, a health official said, with authorities predicting extra strain on the country's health system even as they downplay the disease's severity and continue to report no new deaths...Read More
WHO releases new family planning and abortion care competency standards for health workers
WHO releases new family planning and abortion care competency standards for health workers
23 Dec 2022
Family planning and comprehensive abortion care are part of primary health care, and availability of these services is critical for achieving universal health coverage. Yet, many people around the world lack access to these services, and even when they are available, they are not always accessible, effective and respectful...Read More
Jan. 6 panel unveils report, describes Trump ‘conspiracy
Jan. 6 panel unveils report, describes Trump ‘conspiracy
AP 23 Dec 2022
The House Jan. 6 committee’s final report asserts that Donald Trump criminally engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol, concluding an extraordinary 18-month investigation into the former president and the violent insurrection two years ago...Read More
Watchdog: Under 1% of Israel army probes yield prosecution
Watchdog: Under 1% of Israel army probes yield prosecution
AP 22 Dec 2022
Israeli soldiers accused of harming Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip over the last five years have been indicted in less than 1% of the hundreds of complaints against them, an Israeli rights group reported. The watchdog argued that Israel’s military systematically fails to conduct a credible prosecution of itself...Read More
Voice For Justice & Jubilee Campaign, collective report on Forced Conversions, forced marriages, sexual abuse & abduction of Christian girls & women in Pakistan
9 Dec 2022
Voice For Justice has published collective report with collaboration of Jubilee Campaign USA regarding Forced Conversions, forced marriages, sexual abuse & abduction of Christian girls & women in Pakistan...Read More
Russia shells eastern front, Ukraine says, as war aims appear to shift
Russia shells eastern front, Ukraine says, as war aims appear to shift
Reuters 9 Dec 2022
Russian forces have shelled the entire front line in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said, as part of what appeared to be the Kremlin's scaled-back ambition to secure only the bulk of lands it has claimed...Read More
President for an attitudinal shift to water and energy conservation Islamabad: 08 December, 2022
President for an attitudinal shift to water and energy conservation Islamabad: 08 December, 2022
8 Dec 2022
President Dr Arif Alvi has urged the need to bring about an attitudinal shift from rapid consumption to conserving water and energy so that Pakistan can minimize its financial and economic difficulties...Read More
Suspected German coup plot spawns dozens of arrests
Suspected German coup plot spawns dozens of arrests
AP 8 Dec 2022
German police rounded up dozens of people including a self-styled prince, a retired paratrooper and a former judge Wednesday, accusing the suspects of discussing the violent overthrow of the government but leaving unclear how concrete the plans were...Read More
As part of an ongoing privacy push, Apple said Wednesday it will now offer full end-to-encryption for nearly all the data its users store in its global cloud-based storage system. That will make it more difficult for hackers, spies and law enforcement agencies to access sensitive user information...Read More
More than two decades after a tiny Greek Orthodox church in lower Manhattan was destroyed by the falling south tower of the World Trade Center, that church’s far grander replacement opened to the public this week in an elevated park overlooking the rebuilt trade center’s memorial plaza...Read More
Amid outcry, San Francisco pauses on ‘killer police robots’
Amid outcry, San Francisco pauses on ‘killer police robots’
AP 7 Dec 2022
San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to put the brakes on a controversial policy that would have let police use robots for deadly force, reversing course just days after their approval of the plan generated fierce pushback and warnings about the militarization and automation of policing...Read More
US court dismisses suit against Saudi prince in killing
US court dismisses suit against Saudi prince in killing
AP 7 Dec 2022
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, bowing to the Biden administration’s insistence that the prince was legally immune in the case.
UNGA adopts Pakistan-piloted resolution to bolster UN’s relief system, as disasters multiply
UNGA adopts Pakistan-piloted resolution to bolster UN’s relief system, as disasters multiply
APP 7 Dec 2022
The United Nations General Assembly Tuesday adopted a resolution, submitted by Pakistan on behalf of the Group of 77 (developing countries) and China, to bolster the UN’s hard-pressed humanitarian system struggling to help people hit by increasing natural disasters and other crises around the world...Read More
Ukraine appears to show ability to strike far inside Russia
Ukraine appears to show ability to strike far inside Russia
Reuters 7 Dec 2022
A third Russian airfield was set ablaze by a drone strike, a day after Ukraine demonstrated an apparent new ability to penetrate hundreds of kilometres into Russia with attacks on two air bases...Read More
Greece: Police officer appears in court over teen shooting
Greece: Police officer appears in court over teen shooting
AP 6 Dec 2022
Clashes broke out Tuesday at a police station outside Greece’s second-largest city of Thessaloniki as residents of a nearby Roma settlement protested the police shooting of a teenage driver during a chase over an unpaid gas station bill...Read More
HCJP TAKES SUO MOTO NOTICE OF THE KILLING OF MR. ARSHAD SHARIF Islamabad: December 06, 2022
HCJP TAKES SUO MOTO NOTICE OF THE KILLING OF MR. ARSHAD SHARIF Islamabad: December 06, 2022
6 Dec 2022
The Hon’ble Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Justice Umar Ata Bandial has taken Suo Moto notice of the brutal killing of journalist, Mr. Arshad Sharif...Read More
Indonesia bans sex outside marriage in new criminal code
Indonesia bans sex outside marriage in new criminal code
Reuters 6 Dec 2022
Indonesia's parliament on Tuesday approved a criminal code that bans sex outside marriage with a punishment of up to one year in jail, part of a raft of legal changes that critics say undermine civil liberties in the world's third-largest democracy...Read More
Beijing drops COVID testing burden as wider easing beckons
Beijing drops COVID testing burden as wider easing beckons
Reuters 6 Dec 2022
China's capital Beijing dropped the need for people to show negative COVID tests to enter supermarkets and offices on Tuesday, the latest in an easing of curbs across the country following last month's historic protests...Read More
Exclusive: Musk’s Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests
Exclusive: Musk’s Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests
Reuters 6 Nov 2022
Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and sources familiar with the investigation and company operations...Read More
North Carolina blackouts caused by shootings could last days
North Carolina blackouts caused by shootings could last days
AP 6 Dec 2022
Tens of thousands of people braced Monday for days without electricity in a North Carolina county where authorities say two power substations were shot up by one or more people with apparent criminal intent...Read More
A Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber rammed a police escort for a polio vaccination team in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing four people and wounding more than 30, police said, just two days after the militants ended a ceasefire...Read More
China vows crackdown on ‘hostile forces’ as public tests Xi
China vows crackdown on ‘hostile forces’ as public tests Xi
AP 30 Nov 2022
China’s ruling Communist Party has vowed to “resolutely crack down on infiltration and sabotage activities by hostile forces,” following the largest street demonstrations in decades staged by citizens fed up with strict anti-virus restrictions...Read More
Former President Jiang Zemin, who led China out of isolation after the army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989 and supported economic reforms that led to a decade of explosive growth, died Wednesday. He was 96...Read More
Landmark same-sex marriage bill wins Senate passage
Landmark same-sex marriage bill wins Senate passage
AP 30 Nov 2022
The Senate passed bipartisan legislation Tuesday to protect same-sex marriages, an extraordinary sign of shifting national politics on the issue and a measure of relief for the hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples who have married since the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision that legalized gay marriage nationwide...Read More
Indian billionaire Adani's firm wins bid to develop vast Mumbai slum
Indian billionaire Adani's firm wins bid to develop vast Mumbai slum
Reuters 30 Nov 2022
The real estate unit of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's Adani Enterprises (ADEL.NS) has won the right to redevelop India's largest slum, Mumbai's Dharavi neighbourhood, with a 50 billion rupee ($612 million) bid, a state official said on Tuesday...Read More
San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill
San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill
AP 30 Nov 2022
Supervisors in San Francisco voted Tuesday to give city police the ability to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations -- following an emotionally charged debate that reflected divisions on the politically liberal board over support for law enforcement...Read More
Most of the globe was drier than normal in 2021, with “cascading effects on economies, ecosystems and our daily lives”, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Tuesday, pointing out that Pakistan was among the regions where terrestrial water shortage (TWS) was “much below and below” level...Read More
Qatar says worker deaths for World Cup ‘between 400 and 500’
Qatar says worker deaths for World Cup ‘between 400 and 500’
AP 29 Nov 2022
A top Qatari official involved in the country’s World Cup organization has put the number of worker deaths for the tournament “between 400 and 500” for the first time, a drastically higher number than any other previously offered by Doha...Read More
The United States and its NATO allies will pledge money and equipment for Ukraine on Tuesday to help restore power and heat knocked out by Moscow's relentless missile and drone campaign against civilian infrastructure...Read More
University students sent home as China tries to end protests
University students sent home as China tries to end protests
AP 29 Nov 2022
Chinese universities sent students home and police fanned out in Beijing and Shanghai to prevent more protests Tuesday after crowds angered by severe anti-virus restrictions called for leader Xi Jinping to resign in the biggest show of public dissent in decades...Read More
E&P companies discover 16 hydrocarbon deposits in 2021-22
E&P companies discover 16 hydrocarbon deposits in 2021-22
APP 29 Nov 2022
Exploration and Production (E&P) companies, operating in different parts of the country, have collectively discovered 16 oil and gas reservoirs during the last fiscal year in pursuit of making the country self-reliant in the energy sector...Read More
KABUL (Afghanistan), Nov 29 : Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar on Tuesday announced that Pakistan would give special preference to import of products from the businesses run by the women of Afghanistan...Read More
The yuan's the new dollar as Russia rides to the redback
The yuan's the new dollar as Russia rides to the redback
Reuters 29 Nov 2022
Chinese entrepreneur Wang Min is delighted about Russia's embrace of the yuan. His LED lights company can price contracts to Russian customers in yuan rather than dollars or euros, and they can pay him in yuan. It's "win-win", he says...Read More
Media’s role vital for empowering women, promote gender equality: Neil Hawkins
Media’s role vital for empowering women, promote gender equality: Neil Hawkins
APP 28 Nov 2022
ISLAMABAD, Nov 28: Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Neil Hawkins, on Monday, said that Australia was committed to being at forefront of efforts to empower women and promote gender equality around the world, including in Pakistan...Read More
China’s Xi faces public anger over draconian ‘zero COVID’
China’s Xi faces public anger over draconian ‘zero COVID’
AP 28 Nov 2022
SHANGHAI : Barely a month after granting himself new powers as China’s potential leader for life, Xi Jinping is facing a wave of public anger of the kind not seen for decades, sparked by his draconian “zero COVID” program that will soon enter its fourth year...Read More
A small plane crashed into high-voltage power lines about 30 miles north of Washington, D.C., on Sunday, causing mass outages, with rescue services working into the night to rescue two people on board the aircraft still entangled in the cables...Read More
China COVID cases hit fresh record high after weekend of protests
China COVID cases hit fresh record high after weekend of protests
Reuters 28 Nov 2022
China posted another record high COVID-19 infections on Monday, after an extraordinary weekend of protests across the country over restrictive coronavirus curbs, in scenes unprecedented since President Xi Jinping assumed power a decade ago...Read More
Newborn among 7 dead in landslide on Italy’s Ischia island
Newborn among 7 dead in landslide on Italy’s Ischia island
AP 28 Nov 2022
Search teams have recovered seven dead, including a 3-week-old infant and a pair of young siblings, buried in mud and debris that hurtled down a mountainside and through a densely populated port city on the resort island of Ischia...Read More
Japan, South Korea leaders pray at memorial for Korean atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima
Japan, South Korea leaders pray at memorial for Korean atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima
Indian official suspended after he drains reservoir to retrieve phone he dropped while taking selfie
Indian official suspended after he drains reservoir to retrieve phone he dropped while taking selfie
May 28, 2023
In Canada, each cigarette will get a warning label: ‘poison in every puff’
In Canada, each cigarette will get a warning label: ‘poison in every puff’
Russia destroys Kakhovka dam, sparks environmental disaster
Russia destroys Kakhovka dam, sparks environmental disaster
‘Our own front line’: Ukrainian surgeons see wave of wounded soldiers since counteroffensive began
‘Our own front line’: Ukrainian surgeons see wave of wounded soldiers since counteroffensive began
‘Our own front line’: Ukrainian surgeons see wave of wounded soldiers since counteroffensive began
‘Our own front line’: Ukrainian surgeons see wave of wounded soldiers since counteroffensive began
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