Pak Minister slams Af for not taking action against militants
Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has slammed the Afghan Taliban-led government in Kabul for not taking action against militants along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, despite repeated requests made by Islamabad. Asif made the comments in an interview with BBC Urdu on Saturday in which he also said that Pakistan even offered to...
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Taliban delegation attends meeting led by UN; women excluded
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2 dead as storms wreak havoc in Switzerland
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Paramilitary forces attack city under military control in Sudan
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Sunak, wife seek blessings at Neasden Temple
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Growing clamour for Biden to step down
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Xi to attend SCO summit in Astana
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Video shows NY officer shooting 13-year-old
Video released late Saturday shows an officer in upstate New York fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy who had been tackled to the ground after he ran from police and pointed a replica handgun at them. The teen was killed late Friday in Utica after officers in the city about 240...
Hungary’s populist Orbán to take over EU presidency
When Hungary takes over the helm of the European Union on July 1, many politicians in Brussels will have the same thing on their minds: whether populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will use the role to further his reputation as the bloc’s main spoiler. Orbán in recent years has seemed...
France’s exceptionally high-stakes election begins
Voters across mainland France were casting ballots Sunday in the first round of exceptional parliamentary elections that could put the government in the hands of nationalist, far-right parties for the first time since the Nazi era. The outcome of the two-round elections, which will wrap up July 7, could impact European...
UNESCO finds IS-era bombs in Mosul mosque walls
The UN cultural agency has discovered five bombs hidden within the walls of the historic al-Nouri Mosque in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, a remnant of the Islamic State militant group’s rule over the area, UNESCO said in a statement on Saturday. The mosque, famous for its 12th-century leaning...
Pakistan seeks small arms from US for ‘Operation Azm-i-Istehkam’
Pakistan’s ambassador to the US has urged the US to provide small arms and modern equipment to his country to ensure the success of Operation Azm-i-Istehkam, Islamabad’s newly approved counter-terrorism initiative. The decision to launch the ‘Azm-e-Istehkam’ operation was taken on June 22 at the apex committee meeting of the National...
Russia reports 5 dead in Ukrainian drone strike
A Ukrainian drone strike killed at least five people in Russia’s Kursk region, local officials said Saturday, while rescuers in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro dug through rubble after a Russian attack ripped through a nine-story residential building, leaving one dead. Two children were among the victims of the Ukranian attack...
9 dead in Nepal landslide
Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall on Saturday killed at least nine people including an entire family while they were sleeping in Nepal’s mountainous districts, officials said. The landslides buried houses in three separate areas in the country’s mountainous region, about 250 kilometers (156 miles) west of the capital, Kathmandu, according to...
