ISLAMABAD: At least 136 people have died in a heatwave in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi and other districts of the Sindh province since Saturday, media reported on Monday. Saturday was the hottest day this year in Karachi, where the mercury had shot up to 45 degree Celsius, Dawn online repor

TRIPOLI: Dozens of fighters from ISIS were killed in Libya Saturday as militiamen sought to dislodge them from a neighbourhood in the eastern city of Derna, Libyan news agency Lana reported. For more than a week now, fighters belonging to a group known as the Mujahedeen Council of Derna have been

KATHMANDU: About USD 20 million is needed to support farmers in earthquake-hit Nepal so that they can resume agricultural activities and stave off the threat of prolonged food insecurity, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Saturday. For the current cropping season, FAO representative

David Cameron has warned parts of the Muslim community that “quietly condoning” anti-Western ideology is making it easier for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) to recruit in British cities. The Prime Minister issued a stark message to Muslim families and leaders that they must

Fatih Mehmet Karaca, the counselor of social and religious affairs in Stockholm, announced that in accordance with the Ramadan timetable prepared by Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs (DİB), the fasting period during the upcoming month of Ramadan in Sweden's northernmost cities of Kiruna and N

JAWARO (Khyber Agency, Pakistan): Chief of Army staff general Raheel Sharif has vowed to apprehend all terrorists, their facilitators and financiers in order to achieve the objective of a 'terror-free' Pakistan. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), general Sharif, who returned

WASHINGTON: A young white gunman opened fire in a historically black church in South Carolina on Wednesday night killing nine African-Americans in what was said to be hate crime, one of the worst in US history. The gunman, still at large at the time of writing, reportedly spared one woman so that sh

Nine people have been shot dead at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, and a hunt is under way for a white gunman. Police described the attack at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church as a "hate crime". They issued surveillance images of the suspect and s

SEOUL: North Korea says it has been hit by its worst drought in a century, resulting in extensive damage to agriculture. The official Korean Central News Agency said the drought has caused about 30 percent of its rice paddies to dry up. Rice plants normally need to be partially submerged in water d

JUBA: A quarter of a million children face starvation in war-torn South Sudan, with an end to the 18-month conflict as distant as ever, the expelled UN aid chief warned Tuesday. “Six months ago, we thought that violence and suffering had peaked and that peace was on the horizon. We were wrong,” sai

 Bangladesh's Supreme Court today upheld the death sentence against the second highest ranking leader of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami for war crimes, including massacre of intelligentsia whom he termed "agents of India", during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan. Chief Justice Surendr

LONDON: Several primary schools in London are forbidding students from fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, because of concerns for the children’s health. The Barclay School and three other Lion Academy Trust schools sent a letter to parents saying Ramadan comes at the hottest time of the ye

BEIJING: China plans to drop the entry permit requirement for Taiwan residents visiting the mainland, the official Xinhua news agency cited a senior Chinese politician as saying on Sunday. Yu Zhengsheng, chairman of China's National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Confere

HARARE: Zimbabweans will start exchanging 'quadrillions' of local dollars for a few US dollars next week, as President Robert Mugabe's government discards its virtually worthless national currency, the central bank said on Thursday. The southern African country started using foreign currencies li

WASHINGTON: The US has spent more than $2.7 billion on the war against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria since bombings began last August, and the average daily cost is now more than $9 million, the Pentagon said Thursday. Releasing a detailed breakdown of the costs for the first time, th

The United Nations on Monday released a "list of shame" of children's rights violators and did not include Israel, despite an outcry over the death of more than 500 children during the Gaza war last year. Rights groups had called on Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to add Israel to the list, and the

WASHINGTON: White House reporters were evacuated from the media briefing room in the middle of press conference by the presidential spokesperson Josh Earnest, after law enforcement agencies received a bomb threat call. The reporters who were escorted to the nearby Eisenhower Executive Building on

TOKYO: Distrust between South Korea and Japan is sky high, a new poll showed on Tuesday, as ties between two of Washington's key Asian allies continue to deteriorate over historical grievances. A record-high 73 per cent of Japanese say their neighbour is untrustworthy, while 85 per cent of South