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Independent UN human rights experts have expressed concern about the protection risks faced by migrant workers in the United Kingdom (UK), including “deception, exorbitant recruitment fees, debt bondage, undignified living conditions, and potential deportation.”
The Israel Defense Forces on Monday (June 3, 2024) announced four more people, who were taken as hostages by the Hamas group during the October 7 attack, have died.
A polio team was attacked in Pakistan's Balochistan region on Monday, media reports said.
In a stunning admission before the Islamabad High Court, the Pakistani government has conceded its lack of jurisdiction over Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK).
No missiles were shot but North Korea targeted South Korea for the past several weeks by sending trash-filled balloons, creating fresh tension between the neighbours.
Mexico created history when Claudia Sheinbaum was elected as the first woman president of the country following a landslide victory in the polls.
Media baron Rupert Murdoch has once again said 'I do' as he got married for the fifth time at his Californian vineyard recently.
Maldives has banned Israeli passport holders from entering the Island Nation amid public outrage over the ongoing war in Gaza.
Despite India's claims for decades, it took the missing case of a poet named Ahmed Farhad Shah for Pakistan to admit in the court that Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) is a foreign territory and Islamabad does not have jurisdiction over the region.
Vice-chancellors of public sector universities in Balochistan said Pakistan's Higher Education Commission’s decision to slash funds for the varieties would put the future of the students in the province at stake.
Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) has arrested six suspected human traffickers from Rawalpindi city.
An apartment building collapsed in Turkey's Istanbul city which left at least one person dead and eight others injured, media reports said.
North Korea has sent 720 more balloons containing trash to South Korea and continued to jam the GPS signals for five straight days, media reports said on Sunday.
Unknown six people allegedly abducted a beggar and drove her to an undisclosed location before gangraping her in Pakistan's Sadiqabad area, media reports said on Saturday.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine has strongly condemned the latest deadly Russian missile strikes in Kharkiv.
Speakers attending a seminar in Pakistan recently discussed effective enforcement of existing laws and collective action to control child trafficking, child labour and child marriages.
The thorny issue of how to protect the unwary from deepfakes was just one of the key issues in the spotlight at a UN conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) held in Geneva this week, where a staggering 25,000 enthusiasts – and robots - from 145 countries added their voices to longstanding calls for checks and balances on the all-conquering tech.
The UN’s top human rights official on Friday voiced serious concern over the dramatic deterioration of the situation in Burkina Faso, where almost 1,800 people are reported to have been unlawfully killed between November last year and April.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Pakistan Nguyen Tien Phong's wife has gone missing in Pakistan's Islamabad, media reports said on Saturday.
On Thursday, a humanitarian flight operated by the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) flew from Panama to Haiti – specifically the Port-au-Prince airport – for the first time in three months, according to Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
In a shocking viral video, a Christian man was caught on camera chained and brutally beaten up in Pakistan's Lahore city over delayed garbage collection, an episode once again highlighting the dismal state of minorities in the country.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) repeated launches using ballistic missile technology not only violate Security Council resolutions but also pose a serious risk to aviation and maritime traffic, a senior UN official said on Friday.
Washington: US President Joe Biden said Friday that Israel had offered a new proposal for permanent peace in Gaza, urging Hamas to accept the surprise deal as it was "time for this war to end."
Several people, including a cop, were injured after a knife-wielding person stabbed multiple people during an anti-Islamist political rally in Germany on Friday.
Unknown miscreants set a part of a girls’ middle school in Pakistan's Surab district, gutting a portion of the structure.
The Ministry of National Defense of Taiwan has said it tracked 13 Chinese military aircraft, 10 naval ships, and four coast guard vessels around the region between Thursday and Friday.
A nine-year-old girl from south Indian state of Kerala was injured in shooting incident in London.
Pakistan Army and Air Force are likely to launch Operation Zarb-e-Azab II to target its own citizens in Balochistan and Khyber for protesting against China, according to reports.
A US attorney has found former US President Donald Trump guilty of all 34 charges of falsifying business records on Thursday.
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