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'Ready to engage with Ukrainian side for peace agreement': Putin after call with Donald Trump

'Ready to engage with Ukrainian side for peace agreement': Putin after call with Donald Trump

Moscow/IBNS: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday said he spoke to US President Donald Trump for two hours and that Moscow is ready to engage with the Ukrainian side for peace agreements.

IBNSMay 19, 2025
'Russia, Ukraine will immediately start negotiations for ceasefire': Donald Trump after call with Putin

'Russia, Ukraine will immediately start negotiations for ceasefire': Donald Trump after call with Putin

Washington DC/IBNS: US President Donald Trump on Monday announced that Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations towards a ceasefire following his two-hour call with President Vladimir Putin.

IBNSMay 19, 2025
'Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places': Joe Biden on cancer diagnosis

'Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places': Joe Biden on cancer diagnosis

Former US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden on Monday shared a message of gratitude to the public a day after revealing his prostate cancer diagnosis.

IBNSMay 19, 2025
Pakistan: Blast leaves two dead in Balochistan

Pakistan: Blast leaves two dead in Balochistan

A blast ripped through a marketplace in Balochistan’s Qila Abdullah district in Pakistan on Sunday, leaving two people dead and 11 others injured.

IBNSMay 19, 2025
Panchen Lama should be released immediately: Marco Rubio

Panchen Lama should be released immediately: Marco Rubio

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday asked China to immediately release Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, who was allegedly abducted by China 30 years ago.

IBNSMay 19, 2025
US Senators demand China to release Panchen Lama

US Senators demand China to release Panchen Lama

U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently demanded that China immediately release Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama.

IBNSMay 19, 2025
Pakistan: Blast in Balochistan's market leaves 2 dead

Pakistan: Blast in Balochistan's market leaves 2 dead

A blast ripped through a marketplace in Balochistan’s Qila Abdullah district in Pakistan on Sunday, leaving two people dead and 11 others injured.

IBNSMay 19, 2025
Bangladeshi actress Nusraat Faria, who portrayed Sheikh Hasina on screen, arrested in murder case

Bangladeshi actress Nusraat Faria, who portrayed Sheikh Hasina on screen, arrested in murder case

Dhaka/IBNS: Popular Bangladeshi actress Nusraat Faria, who portrayed the country's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on screen, was on Sunday arrested at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka in connection with a murder case, media reports said.

IBNSMay 19, 2025
Bangladeshi actress Nusraat Faria, who played ousted PM Sheikh Hasina onscreen, sent to jail

Bangladeshi actress Nusraat Faria, who played ousted PM Sheikh Hasina onscreen, sent to jail

Popular Bangladeshi actress Nusraat Faria, who was arrested from Dhaka airport while she was heading to Thailand, has been sent to jail  for her alleged involvement in an attempted murder case linked to anti-government protests last year.

IBNSMay 19, 2025
Ex-US President Joe Biden diagnosed with prostate cancer

Ex-US President Joe Biden diagnosed with prostate cancer

Former US President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer, a statement from his personal office confirmed on Sunday.

IBNSMay 19, 2025
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, who once carried a $10 million bounty, shook hands with Donald Trump in Riyadh

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, who once carried a $10 million bounty, shook hands with Donald Trump in Riyadh

Saudi Arabia witnessed a rare moment in global politics when Donald Trump shook hands with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, whose name was once tied to jihadist movements and al-Qaida and even carried a bounty of USD 10 million on his head.

IBNSMay 18, 2025
Bilawal Bhutto to lead Pakistan’s copycat peace delegation to counter India's terror accusations on global forums

Bilawal Bhutto to lead Pakistan’s copycat peace delegation to counter India's terror accusations on global forums

New Delhi: In a desperate attempt to repair its image after global condemnation over its support for terrorism following Operation Sindoor, Pakistan has announced that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will lead its international peace mission.

IBNSMay 18, 2025
Guterres reiterates call for Gaza ceasefire at Arab League Summit

Guterres reiterates call for Gaza ceasefire at Arab League Summit

The UN Secretary-General renewed his call for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and upheld the need for a two-State solution between Israelis and Palestinians in a speech on Saturday to the League of Arab States Summit in Baghdad.

IBNSMay 18, 2025
Bangladeshi actress Nusraat Faria, who played Sheikh Hasina onscreen, arrested at Dhaka airport

Bangladeshi actress Nusraat Faria, who played Sheikh Hasina onscreen, arrested at Dhaka airport

Popular Bangladeshi actress Nusraat Faria, who played former PM Sheikh Hasina onscreen in 'Mujib: The Making of a Nation', was arrested on Sunday for her alleged involvement in an attempted murder case linked to anti-government protests last year.

IBNSMay 18, 2025
Pakistan vows to rebuild Muridke JuD mosques hit by Indian strike

Pakistan vows to rebuild Muridke JuD mosques hit by Indian strike

Islamabad: The Pakistan Markazi Muslim League (PMML), widely recognised as the political face of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) and a front for the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), said on Saturday that the Pakistan government has promised to reconstruct the mosques at Muridke, which functioned as JuD’s headquarters, destroyed during India’s recent military action.

IBNSMay 18, 2025
Russia launches largest drone attack against Ukraine since war started in 2022

Russia launches largest drone attack against Ukraine since war started in 2022

Russia launched 273 drones on Ukraine on May 18, marking one of the deadliest attacks conducted since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, media reports said.

IBNSMay 18, 2025
Pakistani investigators take help of FBI, Dutch Police to bust global cybercrime network

Pakistani investigators take help of FBI, Dutch Police to bust global cybercrime network

The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA), in coordination with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Dutch police, have arrested 21 people suspected of being involved in cybercrime operations and digital fraud in Pakistan's Multan and Lahore cities.

IBNSMay 18, 2025
IMF hits Pakistan with 11 fresh demands, warns standoff with India threatens reform goals

IMF hits Pakistan with 11 fresh demands, warns standoff with India threatens reform goals

Islamabad: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has imposed 11 additional conditions on Pakistan for the release of the next tranche under its bailout programme and cautioned that escalating tensions with India could threaten the scheme’s fiscal, external, and reform objectives, The Express Tribune reported on Sunday.

IBNSMay 18, 2025
Bomb blast close to fertility clinic in US leaves one dead, FBI calls it 'act of terrorism'

Bomb blast close to fertility clinic in US leaves one dead, FBI calls it 'act of terrorism'

At least one person died after a bomb blast occurred close to a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, US, on Saturday.

IBNSMay 18, 2025
Donald Trump to call Putin, Zelenskyy on Monday for ending 'bloodbath' in Ukraine

Donald Trump to call Putin, Zelenskyy on Monday for ending 'bloodbath' in Ukraine

Washington DC/IBNS: US President Donald Trump said he will have a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday morning to discuss ways to stop the Ukraine war, which he described as a 'bloodbath'.

IBNSMay 18, 2025
Mexican Navy ship carrying over 200 people hits Brooklyn Bridge in New York; leaves 2 dead, 22 injured

Mexican Navy ship carrying over 200 people hits Brooklyn Bridge in New York; leaves 2 dead, 22 injured

New York/IBNS: At least two people have died as a three-masted Mexican Navy sailing ship, the Cuauhtémoc, with around 200 people onboard, crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge on New York’s East River.

IBNSMay 18, 2025
School evacuated in UK after boy brings WWII grenade to assembly

School evacuated in UK after boy brings WWII grenade to assembly

A student brought a World War II grenade during a show-and-tell assembly at a school in the UK's  Ashbourne town, forcing authorities to evacuate the institute on Friday.

IBNSMay 18, 2025
Lebanon: IDF eliminates Hezbollah commander

Lebanon: IDF eliminates Hezbollah commander

The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday said it eliminated a Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon.

IBNSMay 17, 2025
PoJK activist Jamil Maqsood says India's Operation SIndoor was a bold response to Pahalgam attack

PoJK activist Jamil Maqsood says India's Operation SIndoor was a bold response to Pahalgam attack

UK-based activist and native of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), Jamil Maqsood has described Operation Sindoor, which was launched by India against terror hubs located in Pakistan and PoK on May 7, as a "bold and precise" response to the Pahalgam terror attack.

IBNSMay 17, 2025
Melania Trump's statue goes missing in Slovenia

Melania Trump's statue goes missing in Slovenia

Police are trying to hunt down those behind sawed off and carried away the larger-than-life statue of US First Lady Melania Trump in her hometown of Sevnica in Slovenia.

IBNSMay 17, 2025
Russian drone strikes passenger bus in Ukraine, nine dead

Russian drone strikes passenger bus in Ukraine, nine dead

A Russian drone strike on a civilian minibus in north-eastern Ukraine on Saturday left at least nine people dead and seven others injured.

IBNSMay 17, 2025
Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif admits India's missile launch on Nur Khan airbase

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif admits India's missile launch on Nur Khan airbase

Islamabad/IBNS: Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has admitted India had launched "ballistic missile" on Nur Khan airbase and some other locations on the intervening night of May 9 and 10.

IBNSMay 17, 2025
Russia-Ukraine agree to swap prisoners during first meeting in Istanbul

Russia-Ukraine agree to swap prisoners during first meeting in Istanbul

Ukraine and Russian delegations met for the first time in Turkey's Istanbul where they agreed to swap 1,000 prisoners-of-war each.

IBNSMay 17, 2025
Albanian PM Edi Rama kneels to welcome his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni at EU summit

Albanian PM Edi Rama kneels to welcome his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni at EU summit

Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama kneeled to greet his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni as he hosted Europe’s leaders on Friday amid torrential rains.

IBNSMay 16, 2025
Salman Rushdie stabber sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for attempted murder

Salman Rushdie stabber sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for attempted murder

New York/IBNS: The man convicted of stabbing acclaimed author Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving him blind in one eye, has been sentenced to a 25-year jail term.

IBNSMay 16, 2025

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