Category: World

VIENNA (PAKSITAN POST) – The road ahead in coalition talks between Austria’s two main centrist parties will be long and most likely “very rocky” at times, conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who is leading the talks, said on Friday as they began. The far-right Freedom Party (FPO) won last month’s parliamentary election for the first time […]

WASHINGTON (PAKISTAN POST) – U.S. nonfarm payrolls in October could be reduced by as many as 41,000 jobs amid strikes in the aerospace manufacturing industry and at three hotel chains, government data showed on Friday. The Labor Department’s monthly strike report showed 33,000 Boeing employees were idle at the planemaker’s plants in California, Oregon and […]

WASHINGTON (PAKISTAN POST) – A NASA astronaut was flown to a hospital with an unspecified medical issue on Friday shortly after returning to Earth from a nearly eight-month mission on the International Space Station, the US space agency said. The astronaut, who NASA did not name for privacy reasons, had splashed down off Florida’s coast […]

PARIS (WEB DESK) – The United States has said a UN Security Council resolution that ended Israel’s war with Hezbollah in 2006 could form the basis of a new ceasefire, though it would need to be better enforced. What is resolution 1701, and what problems were there with its enforcement? WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY? […]

JERUSALEM (WEB DESK) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday to seize on the killing of Hamas’s leader to work towards a Gaza ceasefire. Blinken also pressed for more aid to be allowed into the Palestinian territory as concerns rise for tens of thousands of civilians trapped by […]

Israel kept up its bombing of Lebanon Tuesday after a late night strike that killed 18 people near a Beirut hospital, state media reported, as its war on Hezbollah approached the one-month mark. The latest deaths brought the overall toll in Lebanon since September 23 to at least 1,552, according to an AFP tally of […]

BRASILIA – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced on Sunday that he will no longer travel to Kazan, Russia, for the BRICS summit, following medical advice to temporarily avoid long-haul flights. In a statement, the presidential palace said Lula will participate in the BRICS meeting via video conference. The group comprises Brazil, Russia, […]

JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with former US President Donald Trump, the prime minister’s office said on Sunday. “Prime Minister Netanyahu reiterated what he has also said publicly: Israel takes into account the issues the US administration raises, but in the end, will make its decisions based on its national interests,” it […]

 Israel has agreed to a series of three-day “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to allow health officials to administer polio vaccinations to children in the territory, the World Health Organization said Thursday. “The way we discussed and agreed, the campaign will start on the first of September, in central Gaza, for three days, and there will […]

It was the simple night-time act of watering flowers on his street in Mosul’s Old City that made Saqr Zakaria stop and think about just how safe this last bastion of Islamic State militants had become since it was liberated in 2017. “I thought for a second, ‘where am I?’” said Zakaria, who left the […]