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Flour millers in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have warned they will launch a province-wide protest if the “unconstitutional” ban on the movement of wheat and flour from Punjab is not immediately lifted.
Pakistan and Afghan Taliban forces clashed along the border on Wednesday in one of the deadliest cross-border confrontations in recent years, leaving dozens dead and many others wounded, according to media and official sources from both sides.
Hamas gunmen publicly executed at least seven people in Gaza this week, even as a new ceasefire agreement with Israel took effect and led to the release of all 20 living Israeli hostages, according to local reports and sources cited by The Times of Israel.
At least 16 people died after a massive fire broke out at a garments factory and a chemical warehouse in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, on Tuesday.
Ashley J Tellis, a foreign policy scholar and defence strategist of Indian origin, has been arrested and charged with unlawful retention of national defence information, US officials said on Tuesday.
US President Donald Trump has slammed Time magazine over its latest cover photo, claiming that it “disappeared” his hair in the picture.
The United States on Monday condemned China after Beijing and the Philippines traded accusations over a maritime confrontation close to disputed islands on the South China Sea.
Unidentified attackers shot dead a Levies constable who was deployed to protect a polio team in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat district on Tuesday.
A driver was killed after a Xiaomi Corp. SU7 electric sedan caught fire following a crash in the Chinese city of Chengdu on Monday, sending the company’s shares down more than 5%, according to CNBC.
A Nepali student, who was held in captivity by Hamas, has now been confirmed dead, on a day when the group released 20 living Israeli hostages on Monday as part of the new ceasefire deal reached with Israel.
Rama Duwaji, wife of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, publicly mourned the death of Palestinian social media figure Saleh al-Jafarawi, who was killed in Gaza on October 12, 2025, during clashes between Hamas and rival factions.
US President Donald Trump on Monday praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his address to the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, just hours after Hamas released the last 20 remaining hostages under a US-brokered ceasefire deal.
A prominent Chinese underground church founder, along with more than 20 other members of the group, have been detained over the weekend during overnight raids in various cities.
At least one officer was killed, and three supporters of a radical Islamist outfit died after they clashed with the police during an anti-Israel march in Pakistan on Monday.
US President Donald Trump on Monday addressed Israeli Parliament when he termed the 'end of the war' in Gaza as a 'historic dawn of a new Middle East'.
The Nobel Prize committee on Monday awarded the economics award to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for "having explained innovation-driven economic growth".
The Canadian Police have arrested eight Indian-origin people over mail thefts, an episode that has caused widespread theft and disruption to community members.
More than two years after the deadly October 7, 2023 attacks, Hamas on Monday released all remaining living hostages under a ceasefire agreement reached recently with Israel, officials confirmed.
A giant sign thanking U.S. President Donald Trump appeared on a Tel Aviv beach on Monday, ahead of his visit to Israel following the latest ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
Hamas on Monday released the first seven of 20 hostages as part of a new ceasefire agreement with Israel, according to officials.
At least 21 nuns were evacuated after a massive fire broke out at the 400-year-old Bernaga Monastery in northern Italy on Saturday, local media reported.
US President Donald Trump on Sunday declared that the war in Gaza is “over,” as Israel and Hamas prepare to exchange hostages and prisoners under a US-brokered ceasefire deal.
An attacker opened fire outside an Ahmadi community’s worship place in Chenab Nagar in Pakistan on Friday, leaving six security guards injured on Friday.
Russia on Sunday voiced deep concern over reports that the United States may supply Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine, warning that the war had reached a “very dramatic moment” with escalation coming from all sides, Reuters reported.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has arrested an Indian-origin driver who was issued a commercial driver's license (CDL) by the state of New York to “No Name Given Anmol.”
Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Sunday sought to downplay the controversy surrounding the absence of female journalists from his earlier press conference in New Delhi, describing it as a “technical issue.”
A 10-year-old boy died and his brother was injured after a bomb exploded in the Jaffarabad district of Pakistan on Friday, media reports said.
An Israeli man, who survived the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 and saw his partner being killed in front of his eyes on the deadly day, was found dead near Tel Aviv city on Friday.
The Pakistan Army on Sunday claimed that more than 200 Taliban fighters were killed during intense border clashes, just hours after Afghanistan’s Taliban government asserted that 58 Pakistani soldiers had died in the fighting.
Three Qatari officials were killed and two others injured after their vehicle crashed near Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, media reports said on Sunday.
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