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Wang Yi, the Foreign Minister of China reiterated on Saturday his country’s commitment to playing a constructive role and engaging in mediation for peace, not exploiting volatile situations for “selfish gains”.
Dubai: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday called on Muslims to "stand by the people of Lebanon and the proud Hezbollah with whatever means they have and assist them in confronting the... wicked regime (of Israel)," Reuters reported.
Dubai: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday called on Muslims to "stand by the people of Lebanon and the proud Hezbollah with whatever means they have and assist them in confronting the... wicked regime (of Israel)," Reuters reported.
G7 members have supported Taiwan's international participation while issuing a joint statement on Tuesday.
A couple from the UK were removed from EasyJet flight after they were caught performing a sexual act minutes after the plane took off, media reports said.
Hassan Nasrallah, the chief of Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and military-resistance organization Hezbollah, has been killed in a strike launched on Beirut by the Israeli military, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed on Saturday.
The Israeli Air Force carried out targeted airstrikes in Beirut and the military claimed it hit the headquarters of Hezbollah group.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had originally intended not to come to the UN General Assembly this year but after hearing the “lies and slander” levelled against his country by other leaders, he decided that he should come and “set the record straight”.
Beirut/IBNS: Moments after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to keep fighting Hezbollah, Israel carried out fresh air strikes on the south of Lebanon's capital Beirut targeting the militant outfit's headquarters, media reports said.
The Pakistani government has registered yet another polio case in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of the country, media reports said.
The Taiwan government has condemned China's recent test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean.
The killing of a Japanese schoolboy in China has triggered tension among the community which is beefing up security following the attack.
Melanie Joly, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, participated in a summit of the Global Coalition hosted by US President Joe Biden in New York City to address Synthetic Drug Threats on the margins of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
The Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of Republic of Uzbekistan was signed by Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman and Khodjayev Jamshid Abdukhakimovich, Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan, on Friday, in Tashkent.
Former Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba will soon become the new Prime Minister of Japan, replacing Fumio Kishida whose tenure will end soon.
From Gaza to Ukraine and beyond, the vast majority of humanitarian needs are driven by conflict – a catastrophe made by human hands – that is turning the geopolitical dial away from the rule of law and towards brute force and aggression, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom told the UN General Assembly on Thursday.
Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, addressed world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Thursday, stressing that the Palestinian people will not leave their homeland – the land of their ancestors.
US President Joe Biden on Thursday announced $8 billion in military assistance for Ukraine to help the country 'win this war' against Russia.
The Israel Defense Forces on Friday confirmed senior Hezbollah commander Mohammed Hussein Surour was during airstrike in Beirut.
Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Thursday that his government had not responded to a proposal by the United States and its allies for a 21-day ceasefire in the ongoing conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon, news agency AFP reported.
At least one person died after a gunman hijacked a Los Angeles bus in the USA, triggering a massive chase which eventually ended with the police taking the suspect into custody.
Pakistani police have arrested a man who was charged with blasphemy, media reports said on Wednesday.
At least 12 people were injured in a blast that targeted a police van in Pakistan's Quetta city, media reports said on Wednesday.
Moscow/IBNS: Russian President Vladimir Putin has called an urgent meeting of the top security council to discuss its nuclear deterrence amid rising concerns over Ukraine being allowed by Western powers to use cruise missiles to target locations in Moscow, media reports said.
Bangladesh Police said security will be heightened across the country for the upcoming Durga Puja celebrations which is the biggest festival observed by the Hindu minority community in a nation that witnessed a massive political turmoil last month.
Bangladesh Police said security will be heightened across the country for the upcoming Durga Puja celebrations which is the biggest festival observed by the Hindu minority community in a nation that witnessed a massive political turmoil last month.
Bangladesh Police said security will be heightened across the country for the upcoming Durga Puja celebrations which is the biggest festival observed by the Hindu minority community in a nation that witnessed a massive political turmoil last month.
A viral image of tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and Italian PM Giorgia Meloni is currently circulating on the internet with fan platforms even guessing if they are dating each other.
A large number of Bangladeshi diaspora members demonstrated outside the hotel where Bangladeshi interim government chief Muhammad Yunus is currently staying in New York over the recent attacks on Hindu minority in the South Asian country following the fall of the former PM Sheikh Hasina-led government in August.
In a powerful address to the UN General Assembly, the 193-member body’s President, Philémon Yang said the annual high-level debate “remains one of the world’s most inclusive, represented, representative and authoritative platforms for global reflection of collective action”.
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