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Panama Papers Verdict updates: It is a h...

Panama Papers Verdict updates: It is a historic day which marks the end of ...

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigned after his family was named in Panama papers case. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigned today after Supreme Court judgment. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was disqualified by the Supreme Court today. Following is the chronology of the... read more »

China may have quietly moved tonnes of w...

China may have quietly moved tonnes of war gear into northern Tibet, claims...

may have quietly moved tonnes of military gear while it was conducting military exercises in the remote mountainous Tibet region, the PLA Daily, the official mouthpiece of Chinese military, has claimed. The PLA had conducted 11-hour long live-fire exercises at an altitude of 5,000 meters on the... read more »

President Donald Trump lets Iran nuclear...

President Donald Trump lets Iran nuclear deal live, but signals he may not ...

President Donald Trump agreed Monday night to let the issue go, but only for a few more months and only after last-minute changes to distance Trump further from the deal. President Donald Trump was eager to declare Iran in breach of the nuclear deal but was talked out of it by national security... read more »

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We oppose militarisation of South China Sea: Australia’s foreign minister

India has commercial interests in the South China Sea and has been pressing for resolving the dispute as per the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with minister for foreign affairs, Australia, Julie Bishop in a meeting in New Delhi on July... read more »

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Iran’s Khamenei undergoes prostate surgery

Iran’s official news agency on Monday said the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has undergone prostate surgery in a Tehran hospital. The report by IRNA said the surgery took... read more »

50 days of war leave Israelis and Palestinians onl...

JERUSALEM: Only time will tell whether Israel will maintain the quiet it so desperately sought during 50 days of war with Palestinian militants in... read more »

China says 2 pilots died in aircraft carrier tests

Two Chinese test pilots were killed during development of the country’s first aircraft carrier fighter wing, state media said. President Xi Jinping had... read more »

110 deteriorate in Pakistan floods

A government official in Pakistan said 110 people have been killed across the country in heavy monsoon downpours and flooding as more rain is forecast for the... read more »

IS struggling to control its new-found oil riches: Expe...

DUBAI: Though the dreaded Islamic State is earning over $3 million daily by producing about 80,000 barrels of oil in Iraq and Syria, experts say the group is... read more »

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Israel passes bill to annex part of Jordan Valley

Israel approves new settlements in West Bank

Israeli authorities have green-lighted the construction of 800 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank. Israel’s Defence Ministry said on Monday it had approved a planning stage for the... read more »

Syrians fleeing war face hardship in Balkans

Syrians fleeing war face hardship in Balkans

Thousands of Syrian and other refugees from the West Asia and Africa, who make a dangerous journey from their war-ravaged countries, often end up in... read more »

Six Syrian Islamist factions unite in bid to oust Assad

Six Syrian Islamist factions unite in bid to oust Assad

Johannesburg – Six Islamist rebel factions in Syria have united and declared a new Islamic Front with an aim to oust President Bashar al-Assad and... read more »

Afghanistan wants to delay US security deal

Afghanistan wants to delay US security deal

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told his countrymen that a vital security pact with the US should not come into effect until after next year’s election... read more »

No legal Indian worker affected by Nitaqat policy: Saud...

Saudi petrochem giant opens tech centre in Bangalore

New Delhi – Saudi Arabia Thursday clarified that its Nitaqat work policy was directed at illegal expatriates and no legal worker had been affected. The... read more »

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Pakistan appoints Jilani as new ambassador to US

Pakistan appoints Jilani as new ambassador to US

Islamabad – Pakistan Friday appointed its top diplomat Jalil Abbas Jilani as the country’s new ambassador to the US. He is presently holding the post of foreign secretary. “The... read more »

Nawaz Sharif to visit Bangkok for summit

Nawaz Sharif to visit Bangkok for summit

Islamabad – Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will undertake an official visit to Bangkok between Nov 17 and 19 to participate in the... read more »

Pakistan seeks to hold talks with Taliban: Sharif

Pakistan seeks to hold talks with Taliban: Sharif

Islamabad – Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Friday that the government wanted to resolve issues with the Taliban through talks. A government... read more »

Pakistan claims nuclear facilities safe from cyber, oth...

Pakistan claims nuclear facilities safe from cyber, other threats for 40 years

Islamabad – Pakistan has given ‘highest importance’ to ensuring that the country’s nuclear programme is safe and secure, Ambassador Masood Khan... read more »

Tehran confirms India still part of Iran-Pak gas pipeli...

Pak admits Iran gas pipeline project cannot go ahead unless US sanctions issue resolved

Islamabad – India is still part of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline officially as the modalities between Iran and India for the supply of gas, including... read more »

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Hajj stampede: Death toll of Indian pilgrims in Mecca rises to 18

Mina: The death toll of Indian pilgrims has risen to 18 in the grisly stampede at the Hajj which has so far claimed the lives of 717 people, the worst tragedy to hit the annual pilgrimage... read more »

French Court Confirms Ban on UberPOP Ride-Sharing Service

PARIS: France’s highest court on Tuesday confirmed a ban on controversial ride-sharing service UberPOP, dismissing a constitutional appeal by the US company. France in January banned... read more »

Sri Lanka Rejects International War Crimes Probe

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s prime minister on Tuesday rejected a UN call for international involvement in an investigation into alleged war crimes. Ranil Wickremesinghe said talks were... read more »

US woman held in China for spying

BEIJING: Even as Xi Jinping left on his first visit to the United States as president, Chinese foreign ministry confirmed that an American woman was being held on suspicion of spying. The... read more »

No peace until foreign troops leave Afghanistan: Taliban chief Mu...

The Taliban’s new leader told Afghanistan’s government today it must cancel a security deal with the United States and expel all foreign troops if it wants peace. Mullah Mansour made the demand... read more »