GENEVA: The number of new coronavirus cases reported globally dropped by 16 per cent last week, marking a month-long decline in COVID-19 infections, according to figures from the World Health Organisation. In its weekly report on the pandemic issued late Tuesday, the UN health agency also said that deaths fell by 10 per cent, continuing […]
PESHWAR: Pakistani authorities have set up a joint committee to decide on the handing over of an over 100-year-old gurdwara in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to the Evacuee Property Trust Board (EPTB) for its restoration and proper preservation. The team constituted by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government will visit Sri Guru Singh Sabha gurdwara in Mansehra […]
GENEVA: The UN refugee agency said Monday that more than 500,000 people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded the country last week. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi gave the estimate in a tweet. The latest and still growing count had 281,000 people entering Poland, more than 84,500 in Hungary, about 36,400 in Moldova, […]
WASHINGTON: The discussions on the sale of 30 Predator armed drones by the US to India, the first to a non-NATO ally, at an estimated cost of USD 3 billion are at an advanced stage, multiple sources have confirmed. The major defence deal was announced under the previous Trump administration during the visit of Prime […]
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin met Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Kremlin on Thursday in his first face-to-face talks since the start of a special military operation in eastern Ukraine and the two leaders are expected review the entire array of bilateral ties including energy cooperation besides exchanging views on major regional and […]
Kyiv: Ukraine’s top security official Oleksiy Danilov said on Wednesday that Ukraine would impose a state of emergency on all of its territory, apart from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions where it has been in place since 2014. He said that the emergency state would last 30 days and could be extended for another 30 […]
UNITED NATIONS: The world is facing the “biggest global peace and security crisis” in recent years, UN chief Antonio Guterres has said as he slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin for sending troops into eastern Ukraine, describing the move as a violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and a “death blow” to the Minsk Agreements. The Secretary-General, who […]
Washington: Strongly condemning President Vladimir Putin’s decision to recognise the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics as independent, US Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Monday said that this is a clear attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Putin signed decrees to recognise the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics as independent. The move was […]
MUNICH: Dismissing the notion that the Quad is an Asian NATO, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that there are “interested parties” who advance such analogies and one should not slip into it, underlining that the four-nation grouping is a kind of 21st century way of responding to a more diversified and dispersed world. […]
Washington: US President Joe Biden has said that he is convinced and has reason to believe that Russian forces will attack Ukraine, including its capital Kyiv, in the coming week, warning that Russia will be responsible for a “catastrophic and needless war of choice” if it pursues its plans. Biden’s comments came amid heightened tensions […]