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Maryam, 50, is also senior vice president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party. She is considered to be the political heir of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif.

The chairman of the House of Representatives committee on China arrived on the self-ruled island with four other US lawmakers.

Tensions were also rising in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where three Palestinian gunmen on Thursday opened fire on morning traffic at a highway checkpoint, killing one person and wounding five others, Israeli police said.

The spill occurred nearly two weeks ago, prompting the government to declare a national emergency and forcing the closure of at least two schools.

The blasts on Feb. 14 hit a natural gas pipeline running from Iran's western Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari provinces up north to cities on the Caspian Sea.

The ruling was the latest turn in one of the great debates of post-coup Chile.

A Biden administration aide sent an unusual letter to the WHCA complaining about coverage of a special counsel report on Biden's handling of classified documents and negative stories about his age.

On Wednesday, the Association of Rape Crisis Centres in Israel, an umbrella body that fights sexual violence, said that sexual assaults on October 7 matched "patterns of wartime sexual violence documented in literature".

The Rupnik scandal has grabbed headlines for more than a year over speculation that he received preferential treatment from a Vatican dominated by Jesuits

A study by the UN children’s agency warned that one in six children in the north are acutely malnourished.

As Russia launched its war, the lives of millions of Ukrainians were irreversibly changed. Artem Dmytryk hadn't seen his family for about 24 months, almost all of which he spent in Russian captivity.

On February 17, a senior Pakistani bureaucrat alleged that the chief election commissioner and the chief justice were involved in “poll-rigging” in the elections and resigned from his post.

Clair Dobbin, for the US government, told the court that the prosecution was "based on the rule of law and evidence" and argued that Assange's actions were "unprecedented."

About the reasons for the change, sources said it was being done to counter the Chinese aggression along the LAC.

The last time the relics were taken out of the country was in May 2023, when they were exhibited at an exposition in Mongolia.

Taiwan's coast guard said a boat carrying four people was fishing about one nautical mile away from Kinmen, which Taiwan has claimed as a restricted area largely for military purpose.

The extradition process has been running for nearly five years. Over such a long time, it’s easy to lose track of the sequence of events that led to this. Here’s how we got here, and what might happen next.

EU is struggling to find enough stocks to send to Kyiv; US aid worth $60 billion is stalled over political differences. That appears to be playing into the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Five elections will take place in South Asian countries this year, and most will likely return incumbent parties to power. It is not yet clear if Sri Lanka will follow suit.

In the last few weeks, the Indian Navy has extended assistance to a number of merchant vessels in the Arabian Sea following attacks on them.