Category: World

RIO DE JANEIRO (Pakistan Post) – Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies were set to meet on Monday in Brazil for their annual summit, bracing for a shift in the global order with the return to power of US president-elect Donald Trump. Discussions of trade, climate change and international security will run up […]

KYIV (Pakistan Post) – Two children were among 11 people killed when a Russian missile hit a residential building in Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy, Ukrainian officials said, while another missile strike left the region’s administrative centre without power. Eighty-nine people, including 11 children, were also injured in the attack on the city late on […]

COLOMBO (Pakistan Post) – Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake retained the key finance minister portfolio and reappointed Harini Amarasuriya as prime minister on Monday as the Indian Ocean island nation targets stronger recovery from a draining financial crisis. Dissanayake, whose leftist coalition won a record 159 seats in the 225-member parliament in a general […]

PARIS (Pakistan Post) – The European Union’s top diplomat on Monday confirmed he would suggest to members of the bloc that the EU pauses its political dialogue with Israel, citing the country’s conduct of the war in Gaza. “Many people tried to stop the war in Gaza… this has not happened yet. And I don’t […]

SEOUL (Pakistan Post) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged the country’s military to improve capabilities for fighting a war in a speech last week, state media KCNA said on Monday, after Pyongyang dispatched thousands of troops to Russia. Kim delivered the speech to a conference of battalion commanders and political instructors held in […]

A presidential election unlike any other in US history entered its last full day on Monday with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris scrambling for an edge in a tight contest each portrays as an existential moment for America. Even after the astonishing blur of events of the last few months, the electorate is divided down […]

In the heart of northern New Hampshire, the small town of Dixville Notch kicked off the US Election Day with its traditional midnight vote early Tuesday (November 5). At midnight, the town’s six registered voters gathered at the Tillotson Room of the Balsams Resort to cast the first votes on Election Day. Residents have cast […]

“I am the first female Vice President, not Last.” These were the words of Kamala Harris who is the presidential candidate of Democrats in the upcoming US election.  The first Black-female vice president, first female Black-South-Asian attorney general of California, first US female senator with South Asian roots, Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California […]

NEW YORK – In 2004, the host of a famous reality TV show used to say his signature phrase “You’re fired”. It became a buzzword and began to be associated with his personality and people started recognising him through this catchphrase. Nobody could imagine that the very host, who used to shout ‘You’re Fired’ on […]

Donald Trump feels “very confident” about winning back the White House, the Republican said Tuesday after casting his Election Day ballot in Florida in one of the most contentious US elections in decades. “I feel very confident,” Trump told reporters at a voting facility in West Palm Beach, adding he believes he “ran a great […]