Category: World

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will announce its verdict in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case on July 17, sources in the Foreign Office confirmed to DawnNewsTV on Thursday. Jadhav — a serving commander of the Indian Navy associated with Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing — was arrested on March 3, 2016, from Balochistan on allegations […]

President Donald Trump, facing renewed criticism from Democrats and activists over his handling of a migrant crisis on the US- Mexico border, said in a Twitter post on Wednesday that immigrants unhappy with conditions at detention centres should be told “not to come.” Democratic lawmakers and civil rights activists who have visited migrant detention centres […]

Rescuers in western India say they have recovered three more bodies, raising the death toll to 15 after a small dam breached and flooded half a dozen villages following heavy monsoon rains. Datta Bhadakawad, a civil administrator in Maharashtra state’s Ratnagiri district, says rescue teams recovered the three bodies on Thursday morning. The Tiware dam […]

TRIPOLI: An air strike hit a detention centre for mainly African migrants in a suburb of the Libyan capital Tripoli late on Tuesday, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 130, the UN mission to Libya said. It was the highest publicly reported toll from an air strike or shelling since eastern forces […]

BEIRUT: Two hundred corpses, including those of people believed to have been executed by the militant Islamic State group, were found near the Syrian city of Raqa, a local official and a war monitor said on Wednesday. The mass grave contained the bodies of five middle-aged men in orange jumpsuits of the kind typically worn […]

Rival Afghans will meet on Sunday in Qatar, officials said, in a fresh attempt to make political headway as the United States seeks a peace deal with the Taliban within three months. President Donald Trump said in an interview broadcast on Monday that he wants to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan, but will leave a […]

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations has found mixed situation on institutional developments in areas of transparency, accountability, anti-corruption, participation and non-discrimination. According to the World Public Sector Report 2019 published by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs recently, despite a surge in the number of laws and initiatives adopted by countries around the world over the […]

PARIS: Europe was bracing itself for a sweltering on Saturday as a deadly heatwave across the continent has sparked record-breaking temperatures, large blazes and pollution peaks. The Meteo-France weather service lifted its red warning but forecast a “very hot day” across a large central band of the country, with the mercury expected to rise to […]

OSAKA: Russia has agreed with Saudi Arabia to extend by six to nine months a deal with Opec on reducing oil output, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, as oil prices come under renewed pressure from rising US supplies and a slowing global economy. Putin, speaking after talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, told […]

The US has deployed F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar for the first time, its military said Friday, adding to a buildup of US forces in the Gulf amid tensions with Iran. The Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighters have been deployed “to defend American forces and interests,” the US Air Forces Central Military Command said […]