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Washington/IBNS: US President Donald Trump on Friday said India and Pakistan will figure out their border tension, which he claimed to be going on for 1,500 years, in the backdrop of the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 tourists including two foreigners on April 22.
The Pakistani Senate on Friday passed a resolution against the Indian government's 'attempt' to link the South Asian country to the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir which left 26 people, mostly non-Muslims, dead.
A senior Russian military officer was killed in a car explosion in Balashikha town, located close to Moscow, on Friday.
With just weeks to go before a key ministerial meeting in Berlin, the UN and Germany have reaffirmed their commitment to peacekeeping – a vital tool for global stability that must now adapt to dwindling resources.
Hundreds of civilians, including at least 12 humanitarian workers, have been killed in recent artillery shelling targeting the El Fasher and Zamzam camps in Sudan’s Darfur region, triggering an unprecedented wave of displacement according to the UN.
The Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, which triggered worldwide condemnation, brought the operation of a long-active terror module working in Jammu and Kashmir to the forefront and even revealed the link of the 26/11 Mumbai attack and Lashkar chief Hafiz Saeed to the incident.
Grim details continued to emerge on Thursday in the aftermath of a wave of Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital and other cities overnight, with early reports indicating that at least nine people were killed and dozens injured.
Pakistani Defence Minister Khwaja M Asif has admitted that his country has been doing the "dirty work" for the US and the West when a foreign journalist asked him if Islamabad has a history of funding and backing terror groups.
Billions of people around the world are living in fear of job loss or struggling to find work, as economic instability, conflict, and climate shocks combine to erode global security, a new UN report has warned.
Washington D.C./IBNS: US state department spokesperson Tammy Bruce has shut down a Pakistani journalist's question on the tension between India and Pakistan in the backdrop of the Pahalgam terror attack, saying she was not going to add anything more to what the President and secretary had already said.
Pakistan's Deputy PM Ishaq Dar has described those terrorists who attacked and killed tourists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam on Tuesday as 'freedom fighters'.
New Delhi/IBNS: Former Pentagon official Michael Rubin has drawn a parallel between Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir and late Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden, blaming Islamabad for the killing of 26 tourists in one of the worst Islamic terrorism that took place in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam.
A Thai woman working in the United States has told UN News how she fell for a scam orchestrated by a criminal network in Asia – and lost $300,000.
Bangladesh interim government chief Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday condemned the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, where terrorists targeted tourists and gunned down 28 of them when they were travelling in the popular destination.
A lack of funding and dwindling supplies are forcing the UN World Food Programme to suspend lifesaving treatment for 650,000 malnourished women and children in Ethiopia by the end of the month. “We are at the breaking point,” the agency warned on Tuesday.
China on Wednesday reacted to the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, which left 28 people killed, and said Beijing resolutely opposes all forms of terrorism.
Indian-American FBI Director Kash Patel has said that 'justice will be done' following the arrest of the gangster Harpreet Singh, alias Happy Passia, who is allegedly responsible for multiple terror attacks in Punjab.
China has executed a man who had fatally stabbed a 10-year-old Japanese boy last September, media reports said.
US President Donald Trump on Monday confirmed he will attend the funeral ceremony of Pope Francis, who died on Monday.
Moscow/IBNS: Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is under pressure from the US for a peace deal with Ukraine, on Monday proposed bilateral talks with Kyiv for the first time in years.
Pope Francis died due to stroke, followed by a coma and irreversible cardiocirculatory collapse, the Vatican City revealed on Monday.
Local Awami League leaders and activists organised a flash procession in Bangladesh's Khulna area on Sunday, marking the first such event in the region since the fall of the former PM Sheikh Hasina-led regime amid severe protests against her government on August 5, 2024.
Pope Francis, the religious leader of the 1.4 billion Catholic population across the globe, died at the age of 88, leaving his followers deeply saddened.
A Hindu temple in Canada's Surrey city was vandalised with pro-Khalistan graffiti, a day after a similar incident occurred at a gurdwara in Vancouver city, media reports said.
Vatican City/IBNS: Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City state, died at the age of 88 on Monday.
The Houthi-controlled health authorities said at least 12 people died and 30 others were hurt after US airstrikes hit a crowded market in Yemen's capital Sanaa, on Sunday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday said Russia continued to fight on several fronts on the border between the two nations despite President Vladimir Putin announcing a 30-day Easter ceasefire.
A gurdwara or Sikh temple in Canada's Vancouver city was desecrated with pro-Khalistani graffiti on Saturday, prompting the police to investigate the incident.
The Thai authorities have arrested the Chinese executive of the construction company that was building the State Audit Office tower in Bangkok, which collapsed after strong tremors jolted the nation late in March, leaving several people dead.
A Hindu state minister in Pakistan was attacked by unknown miscreants in the country's Thatta city when he was on his way to Jhok Sharif to attend an event.
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