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Female activists raised their voices at the United Nations on Friday as they marked International Women's Day amid a global trend of backsliding on hard-won rights.
Massive clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad as well as revenge killings for two days left more than 1,000 people dead, media reports said on Sunday.
A Pakistani "scholar", who was accused of helping Pakistan's ISI spy agency in kidnapping former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav from Iran, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Balochistan on Friday night, media reports said.
A Pakistani "scholar", who was accused of helping Pakistan's ISI spy agency in kidnapping former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav from Iran, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Balochistan on Friday night, media reports said.
A Pakistani man has been charged with allegedly killing the administrator of a WhatsApp community after he was removed from the chat in the South Asian country's Peshawar city, media reports said.
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) has confirmed that it was recently targeted by Chinese hackers, but no information was stoled, media reports said.
Three suspects are currently at large after a mass shooting incident at a pub in Toronto city on Friday left at least 12 people wounded.
A U.S.-Mexican dual national and co-founder of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) — an international drug trafficking organization — was sentenced on Friday in the District of Columbia to a term of life in prison plus 30 years to run consecutively for his role in a major drug trafficking conspiracy and ordered to forfeit over $6 billion of drug trafficking proceeds.
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a religious preacher and injured another person in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, media reports said.
Kyiv/IBNS: At least 14 people were killed and 37 wounded after the Russian forces launched a missile attack on the eastern city of Ukraine, Dobropillia, media reports said.
The US Department of Justice on Friday announced criminal charges against a State Department employee who is accused of performing criminal conspiracy to gather, transmit, or lose national defence information.
Washington/IBNS: US President Donald Trump on Friday announced that India has agreed to lower the tariffs on American exports amid the tension between the two countries over the duty since the Republican returned to the White House.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday appeared to signal that he is ready to take military action on Iran, unless the country agrees to a new deal that would restrain its rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Russia’s latest aerial barrage against targets in Ukraine is not dampening expectations by U.S. President Donald Trump that he can broker a deal to end the fighting between Moscow and Kyiv.
The basic rights of women and girls are facing unprecedented growing threats worldwide, from higher levels of discrimination to weaker legal protections -and less funding for programmes and institutions which support and protect women, the United Nations observed.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that Canada has been "ripping off" the United States for years with tariffs on lumber and dairy products and threatened to place reciprocal tariffs on Canada as early as Friday.
Washington/DC: US President Donald Trump Friday said he finds it "easier" to deal with Russia than with Ukraine in his efforts to end the war in the pro-Western country.
Washington DC/IBNS: Days after the spat with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Donald Trump Friday said he's considering "large-scale" sanctions and tariffs against Russia until it reaches a ceasefire and peace agreement with Ukraine.
A Ukrainian Minister on Friday said the country's energy and gas infrastructure in various regions were targeted by massive Russian rocket and drone firing, triggering tension in the region.
Bangladesh police baton charged and lobbed tear gas shells to disperse a procession taken out by members of banned outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir in Dhaka city on Friday, media reports said.
President Donald Trump continued to press Kyiv to sign a minerals deal Thursday and expressed confidence that Moscow was also ready to close on a deal to end the war that started when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
European Union leaders vowed to ramp up funding for Ukraine and their own defense at a summit in Brussels on Thursday as they take steps to rearm in ways they haven’t since the end of the Cold War.
Former Olympic snowboarder and Canadian national, Ryan Wedding, 43, has been added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, Akil Davis, the Assistant Director in Charge (ADIC) of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, announced recently.
European Union leaders vowed to ramp up funding for Ukraine and their own defense at a summit in Brussels on Thursday as they take steps to rearm in ways they haven’t since the end of the Cold War.
Turkey may consider sending troops to the peacekeeping mission in Ukraine if necessary, media reports said on Friday.
Some global health projects whose U.S.-funded contracts were suddenly canceled last week have received letters reversing those decisions, according to media reports.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday delayed for four weeks his new 25% tariffs on most Mexican and Canadian exports to the United States, his latest maneuver in a North American trade war that has plunged stock indexes for days and roiled U.S. relations with its longtime allies and two biggest trading partners.
Washington DC/IBNS: US President Donald Trump Thursday said he was pausing sweeping tariffs recently imposed on Mexican imports after talks with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Washington : US engagement in Southeast Asia, especially Myanmar, can advance America's national security, economic interests, and broader strategic goals in countering China’s expanding influence, foreign policy analysts say.
Top diplomats from the United States and Canada held talks Wednesday that included discussion of trade, while U.S. President Donald Trump delayed a new 25% tariff on vehicle imports from Canada and Mexico for a month.
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