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PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Pakistan’s health ministry said Friday it has identified a case of mpox, but sequencing is being done to determine whether it is a new variant, days after the World Health Organization declared the spread of mpox a…

JERUSALEM: International diplomacy to prevent the war in Gaza from spreading into a wider regional conflict intensified Friday, with the British and French foreign ministers making a joint trip to Israel while internationally mediated…

NEW DELHI: Following a recent surge in violence in Bangladesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grave concern about the safety of Hindus and other minorities in the neighbouring country. In his Independence Day speech, Modi…

NEW DELHI: Central Asian country, Uzbekistan, has announced its parliamentary elections will be held on October 27. India was amongst the first countries to recognise the state sovereignty of Uzbekistan after it gained independence. The…

JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo hailed his economic track record on Friday in a final state of the nation address before he leaves office in October after a decade in power. Widodo, more popularly known as Jokowi, will be…

BANGKOK: Thai lawmakers on Friday elected the 37-year-old daughter of billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister, elevating a third member of the influential but divisive clan to the nation's top job. Paetongtarn Shinawatra, whose…

DHAKA: A mob wielding bamboo rods and plastic pipes beat several suspected supporters of Sheikh Hasina on Thursday, vowing to quash a rumoured rally for the ousted Bangladesh premier outside her childhood home. Hasina, 76, fled by…

TOKYO: Hundreds of Japanese flights and trains were cancelled Thursday in the middle of a major holiday week as another typhoon roared towards the archipelago. Days after Tropical Storm Maria dumped record rains, Typhoon Ampil was set…

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe faces 38 challengers in polls next month, the election commission said Thursday after nominations closed, with ally-turned-rival Sajith Premadasa leading the pack. It will be the first vote…

DHAKA: Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal has started an investigation against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and nine others on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity that took place from July 15 to August 5 during…

The father received a call from his neighbours, who told him that the house where his family had taken shelter had been reduced to rubble by an Israeli airstrike.

The court ruling dismisses not only Srettha Thavisin but also his whole cabinet, and parliament will now have to meet to choose a new prime minister.

Helicopters had carried senior Taliban officials to the event at Afghanistan's biggest air base, which served as the linchpin of US-led operations in the country for two decades.

New Delhi: In the first-ever response after her government was overthrown by violent protests across the country, former prime minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina appealed for "justice from the countrymen." In an emotional statement…

NEW DELHI: A draft has been prepared by the interim government in Bangladesh to scrap August 15th as a national holiday. Forty-nine years ago, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated on this day, and it has since been observed as a holiday…

Tehran: A mother of two has been left paraplegic after being shot by Iranian police over an alleged violation of the country's strict hijab rules, BBC has reported quoting sources. "She is paralysed from the waist down, and doctors have…

ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has rejected the bail application of Bushra Bibi, the wife of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, in 12 cases related to the May 9 violence of last year, which erupted when the Pakistan…

In a report by Israeli rights group B’Tselem, a Palestinian prisoner who was lodged in the Megiddo prison is quoted as saying: "When we got off the bus, a soldier said to us: 'Welcome to hell.'"

Lt Gen (retd.) Hameed was considered extremely powerful when he headed the spy agency from 2019 to 2021. He was appointed when the then ISI chief and current Army chief Lt Gen Asim Munir was prematurely removed from the post reportedly…

Yunus said a key priority of the interim government is to restore the independence of the judiciary.