DHAKA: Bangladesh's Cabinet on Monday approved an increase in the maximum punishment in rape cases to death from life imprisonment after a series of...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's Special Assistant on Information and Broadcasting Lt Gen (retd.) Asim Saleem Bajwa resigned on Monday, amid allegations that...
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump rallied hundreds of cheering supporters for a campaign-style comeback event at the White House Saturday, jumping back into the election...
KARACHI: An influential Pakistani Sunni Muslim cleric was shot dead along with his driver by unidentified assailants in Karachi city, according to media reports.
The...
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday sought withdrawal of all American troops from Afghanistan by Christmas this year.
“We should have the small remaining...
NEW DELHI: India and Japan have finalised an ambitious agreement that provides for cooperation in 5G technology, artificial intelligence and an array of other...
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has returned to the White House after being discharged from a military hospital where he was under treatment for...
LAHORE: Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam and other top leaders of the Opposition PML-N party were charged with sedition and...
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will cut short his upcoming Asia trip, the State Department announced, amid President Donald Trump’s hospitalisation following...
WASHINGTON: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows revealed that President Donald Trump's condition on Friday was far worse than officials had made public,...
Washington: President Donald Trump has several strikes against him age, obesity, elevated cholesterol and being male that could put him at greater risk of...
Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday once again rejected India’s demand that an Indian lawyer or a Queen’s counsel should be appointed for death-row prisoner Kulbhushan...
Washington: US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president tweeted on Friday, a development that is...
BEIJING: Millions of travel-starved Chinese hit the roads as the country on Thursday shut down for eight-day official holidays to celebrate the 71st anniversary...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has asked relevant authorities to take steps to bring back PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif from London, where he...
BEIJING: China on Tuesday called India’s designation of the region along their disputed border as a union territory an illegal move, and voiced new...
Islamabad: Afghanistan's top official in negotiations with the Taliban arrived in Pakistan's capital Monday on a three-day trip during which he will meet with...
SHANGHAI | WASHINGTON: The United States has imposed restrictions on exports to China's biggest chip maker SMIC after concluding there is an "unacceptable risk"...
JOHANNESBURG: In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at this week’s annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view, warning: If COVID-19...