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Punjab Assembly on Monday elected PML-N’s Maryam Nawaz as the first female chief minister of the Pakistani province, days after the general election in the nation was held amid rigging allegations.
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight attendant went missing in Canada after the plane reached Toronto from Islamabad.
Pakistani police rescued a woman after she was mobbed by a crowd for allegedly wearing a kurta with Arabic prints, which people allegedly mistook as verses from Quran.
An active-duty member of the US Air Force on Sunday set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC, media reports said.
US Senator Marco Rubio has reacted to the massive cellular outage across the country and warned the situation can be even more precarious in case China launches a cyberattack while 'invading' Taiwan.
In response to the Houthis' continued attacks against commercial and naval vessels transiting the Red Sea and surrounding waterways, the militaries of the United States and United Kingdom, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, conducted an additional round of strikes against several targets in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Saturday (February 23, 2024).
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's body has been handed over to his mother, his spokesperson said.
Moscow/IBNS/UNI: The leaders of the G7 countries have pledged to impose sanctions on Russia in connection with the death of the country's opposition figure Alexei Navalny, according to a joint statement.
Washington/IBNS/UNI: The United States and its allies, including Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, have carried out strikes against Yemen's Houthi rebels, hitting 18 military targets of the movement, the US Defence Department said on Sunday.
Washington/IBNS/UNI: US and Arab officials are seeking to narrow the differences between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas to reach an agreement to pause hostilities in Gaza and release Israeli hostages, The Wall Street Journal reported citing Egyptian officials.
The City Council of Pakistan's Karachi city recently echoed concern over the deteriorating law and order situation in the city.
A woman and a man were shot dead, allegedly by the former’s father and brother, in an instance of suspected honour killing in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, media reports said.
Residents of Kalat region in Pakistan's Balochistan, including women and children, protested against the severe shortage of gas and electricity amid ongoing harsh winter season.
Family members of a minor on Friday demonstrated against the forceful marriage of the girl in Pakistan's Khuzdar area.
Armed robbers continue their mayhem in Pakistan's Orangi Town as two people were shot dead in the Pakistani town on Friday.
The alliance of four nationalist parties across Balochistan continued their sit-in in Balochistan against alleged rigging in the February 8 national polls on Friday.
The United States on Friday imposed over 500 new sanctions against Russia as its invasion of Ukraine completed two years.
Ukraine has claimed it downed a Russian A-50 military spy plane, media reports said.
At least fifteen people died after a building fire broke out Friday morning in Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province, the municipal government said on Saturday morning.
Jerusalem/IBNS/UNI: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has unveiled his post-war strategy for Gaza, the first since the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out in October last year, involving a continuous military presence in the Palestinian enclave, and the replacement of Hamas, his office said in a statement on Friday.
In collaboration with provincial, territorial, and indigenous partners, the Government of Canada is working to implement a childcare system down to $10 a day on average for children five years of age and younger by March 2026.
Gas supply was disrupted to Mach town in Pakistan after a gas pipeline passing through the Bolan River was blown up on Wednesday.
A frontier corps soldier was killed and at least two others were injured when a bomb went off in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said on Friday.
A woman who once left the United Kingdom to join the terror group Islamic State at the age of 15 has lost her Court of Appeal challenge over the decision to remove her British citizenship.
An explosive planted on a motorcycle in Drazanda area of Pakistan's Dera Ismail Khan on Friday left at least three people injured.
Scores of urea fertiliser producers recently demonstrated outside Digri press club in Pakistan against rising prices and demanded the government to announce subsidies for essential farm inputs without delay to facilitate the agriculture sector.
Unidentified armed men gunned down a person in Panjgur district of Pakistan's Balochistan region on Wednesday.
Pakistan's Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights was recently informed on Tuesday that over 23,000 nationals from the South Asian country are currently languishing in foreign prisons.
At least four people died after a fire broke out at a high-rise residential block in Spain's Valencia city on Thursday.
Caracas/UNI: Fifteen people were killed and 11 others injured after a mine collapsed in La Paragua, the city of Angostura in the country's southeastern Bolivar state, said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday night.
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