Pakistan's Punjab government has decided to beef up the security of Chinese officials in the province following the suicide attack on Karakoram highway in Bisham which left five Chinese nationals dead.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said his party decided to boycott the upcoming bypolls and his outfit will protest in different cities from April 25.
Condemning the suicide blast in Bisham region which left six people, including five Chinese nationals who were working on the Dasu Hydropower Project, dead, Beijing on Tuesday (March 26, 2024) asked Pakistan to thoroughly investigate the case and hunt down the perpetrators behind the attack.
Six people, who went missing following the collapse of a bridge in the US city of Baltimore after it was hit by a ship, are presumed dead, media reports said.
The UN received 758 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by staff last year, together with related personnel and partners, according to its latest report on the issue.
One in three migrant deaths happens while people flee conflict, the UN migration agency, IOM, said on Tuesday. More than two in three migrants whose deaths have been documented remain unidentified.
Washington: The United States should drop its “shameful” case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange instead of issuing some “assurances” to him, Julian’s wife Stella said on Tuesday.
Washington/IBNS/UNI: The statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office saying that the UN resolution on a Gaza ceasefire has emboldened Hamas to reject a compromise hostage deal proposal is "inaccurate in almost every respect," US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Tuesday.
Toronto/IBNS: Efforts to bring 18 Canadians out of Haiti by helicopter flights were postponed Monday due to poor weather conditions in the Dominican Republic, Canada's ambassador André François Giroux said.
Baltimore/IBNS: A container ship lost power and rammed into a major bridge's support column in Baltimore in the United States early Tuesday, plunging a construction crew and several vehicles into the dangerously cold waters.
As many as 47,000 wheat sacks went missing from a Pakistani government's warehouse in Sindh, media reports said.
Islamabad residents, including the traders community, have threatened to stage a protest and contest the decision in court after the local administration made an exorbitant increase in property taxes.
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense has said 13 Chinese military aircraft and seven naval vessels were tracked around the region between Monday and Tuesday.
Top UN officials, including the Secretary-General and the President of the General Assembly on Monday paid tribute to the millions of men, women and children who suffered as a result of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, one of most devastating chapters in human history.
A fire engulfed 26 houses in southern Myanmar's Ayeyarwady region, an official from the Labutta Township Fire Station told Xinhua on Tuesday.
At least six Chinese nationals and a Pakistani were killed after their convoy was attacked in Bisham region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Shangla region on Tuesday.
The Moscow Basman District Court on Monday approved the detention of three more people involved in Friday's terrorist attack at a concert hall in the suburbs of Moscow.
Rescue crews are currently searching for seven people in Patapsco River after multiple vehicles collapsed in it following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Security officials of Pakistan's Korangi region killed two suspected robbers in an alleged encounter on Sunday.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said that France has a very efficient intelligence system that allows law enforcement agencies to prevent terrorist attacks in the country almost every month.
Pakistani security forces have claimed they have foiled an armed terrorist attack at a naval base in Turbat on Monday, media reports said.
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company, Limited (Wuhan XRZ), a Wuhan, China-based Ministry of State Security (MSS) front company that has served as cover for multiple malicious cyber operations.
Jerusalem/IBNS/UNI: Israel Monday canceled a scheduled delegation's trip to Washington D.C., citing the U.S. decision not to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as the reason.
The UN Security Council on Monday (March 25, 2024) passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan, the immediate and unconditional release of hostages and "the urgent need to expand the flow" of aid into Gaza.
The United Nations Security Council Monday adopted a resolution that demands an immediate cease-fire in Gaza for the holy month of Ramadan.
The Paris Summer Olympics could become a "premium terrorist target" after Friday's terrorist attack at a concert venue in the Moscow Region, a senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project international non-government organization, Edmund Fitton-Brown, said on Monday.
Armed men kidnapped three coal miners in Duki coal field area of Balochistan on Friday, media reports said.
Human traffickers and notorious smugglers are trying to cruelly treat immigrants who illegally attempt to reach Europe via Iran by holding them for ransom.
Leaders of the joint action committee, including Prof Dr Kaleemullah Barech, Shah Ali Bugti, Nazir Ahmed Lehri, Fareed Khan Achakzai, and others, on Sunday said despite passage of 24 days in March, professors and employees of the University of Balochistan (UoB) have not received salaries and pensions for the last three months.
Afghan counter-narcotics police have smashed poppy farms on 200 acres of land in north Afghanistan's Balkh province over the past two months, provincial police chief Abdul Razaq Rashed said on Monday.
