NEW YORK: Donald Trump must pay $354.9 million in penalties for fraudulently overstating his net worth by impersonating creditors, a New York judge ruled on Friday, handing the former US president another legal setback in a civil dispute that threatens…
RAFAH: Gaza’s largest functioning hospital was under siege by Israel’s war with Hamas on Friday, leaving patients and doctors helpless in the chaos as warplanes pounded Rafah, the last refuge for Palestinians in the enclave, officials said. Israeli forces remained…
UN: Pakistan has urged the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to shift its focus to economic, social and cultural rights instead of focusing “disproportionately” on the human rights situation in developing countries. “The Council and human rights mechanisms should also…
WASHINGTON: The top US diplomat involved in humanitarian aid to Gaza said on Friday that Israeli forces earlier this month killed Palestinian police protecting a UN convoy in the enclave’s embattled southern town of Rafah. As a result, Palestinian police…
BEIJING: Pakistan’s sesame seed exports to China registered a year-on-year increase of 126.29 percent from January to December last year and crossed $290 million, said Ghulam Qadir, Commercial Councilor, Embassy of Pakistan in Beijing. According to the General Administration of…
BELGOROD: Seven people, including a one-year-old girl, were killed Thursday in a Ukrainian rocket attack on the southern Russian city of Belgorod, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Eighteen other people, including four children, were hospitalized with injuries, six of them…
MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Thursday dismissed United States warnings about Moscow’s new nuclear capabilities in space as a “malicious fabrication” and a White House ploy to get US lawmakers to approve more money to fight Russia. The United States has…
AMBALA: Indian farmers demanding higher prices for their crops will postpone a planned protest march to Delhi until unions hold another round of talks with government ministers on Sunday. Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda, who met farmers’ representatives along with Commerce…
NEW DELHI: Eleven people were killed in a fire that broke out at a paint factory in the Indian capital, an official said on Friday, as rescue teams continued to search for survivors. The fire broke out in the northern…
United Nations: A large-scale Israeli assault on Rafah would cause an “unimaginable human catastrophe,” World Health Organization (WHO) doctors in Gaza have warned. Dr Rik Peeperkorn, a WHO representative based in Rafah, said the three remaining hospitals in southern Gaza…
United Nations: Pakistan has called for addressing decades of unresolved conflict and foreign occupation – an apparent reference to Palestine and Kashmir – as part of efforts to combat violent extremism. In this regard, Pakistan’s delegate Muhammad Jawad Ajmal, speaking…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday expressed deep grief over the devastation caused by a landslide in the southern Philippines that claimed many lives. “Sincere condolences to the government and people of the Philippines and the families of the deceased,” the State…
WASHINGTON: The United States is ready to work with whatever government comes to power in Pakistan after the country’s general elections last week, State Department spokesman Mathew Miller said on Monday.“It was clearly a competitive election where people could exercise…
An Indian news magazine said on Tuesday that the government had ordered the deletion of an online report that implicated soldiers in the torture and killing of civilians in India’s illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). Human rights organizations say…
Azerbaijan’s envoy, Khazar Farhadov, stated that 2024 has been designated as the “Green World Fortitude Year” in the Republic of Azerbaijan, and that the COP29 Global Environment Meeting would be held in Baku in December.He was the principal visitor at…
WASHINGTON D.C.: US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller on Monday expressed concern at a press conference over reported irregularities and fraud in Pakistan’s recent elections. Addressing a panel of journalists, Miller congratulated the people of Pakistan for participating in the…
