Beirut (IANS) As many as 100 people were killed and nearly 4,000 injured in two huge explosions that rocked downtown Beirut, the Lebanese Red Cross said on Wednesday.
The blasts took place on Tuesday evening (around 6.10 p.m. local time), shaking…
Islamabad (IANS) A delusional Pakistan remaining in denial over India's right over J&K continued to hector India till late in the night after India unequivocally trashed Pakistan's alleged hegemony over the Indian union territory. Realising…
Islamabad (IANS) Bangladesh seems to be sliding sides through soft diplomacy, signalLing towards possibilities of cooperation with Pakistan as two sides work towards melting the ice of critical, tense and strained relations.
The recent telephonic…
Manila (IANS) Millions of people in the Philippines returned to a COVID-19 lockdown on Tuesday, after doctors warned a surge in new coronavirus cases could push the country's healthcare system to collapse.
Stay-at-home orders are now in…
Washington (IANS) Up to 71 per cent of African-Americans said they personally knew "some" or "a lot of" people who were mistreated by the police, a much higher figure than among other racial groups in the US and twice the rate among white Americans,…
Beijing (IANS) A top Chinese official on Hong Kong affairs is here to meet various sectors, including legal experts, on the postponement of the city's Legislative Council (Legco) elections, the a media report said on Monday.
Sources told…
Kabul (IANS) Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) has said that it killed Assadullah Orakzai, the intelligence head for the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), it was reported.
The NDS told TOLO News that the IS commander…
BerlinĀ (IANS) Despite the rising number of coronavirus cases in Germany, about 17,000 people took to the streets of Berlin rallying against social distancing rules imposed to curb the pandemic.
On Saturday, protesters marched from the landmark…
Washington (IANS) US President Donald Trump has said that he will ban the popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok from operating in the country through an executive order as early as Saturday, according to media reports.
Speaking to reporters…
Islamabad (IANS) Pakistan and Afghanistan have traded allegations over a deadly border firing incident that caused casualties on both sides, it was reported on Saturday.
In a statement late Saturday, the Foreign Office here said that Pakistani…