United Nations, Apr 7: The UN General Assembly will vote Thursday on whether to suspend Russia from the UN's premier human rights body. The move was initiated by the United States in response to the discovery of hundreds of bodies after Russian troops withdrew from towns near the Ukrainian capita

Islamabad, Apr 4: Pakistan's former chief justice Gulzar Ahmed was on Monday nominated for the office of the caretaker prime minister by incumbent Imran Khan, amid ongoing political crisis in the country. Former information minister and senior leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party Fawad Ch

Islamabad (PTI): In a surprise move, Pakistan's embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday that he has advised President Arif Alvi to dissolve the National Assembly and call for fresh elections. In a brief address to the nation, Khan said he has advised President Alvi to dissolve assembli

BRIEFLY IMPOSE CURFEW AFTER PROTESTS OUTSIDE PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSA'S RESIDENCE Colombo(PTI): At least 45 people were arrested and a curfew briefly imposed in most parts of Colombo city after hundreds of protesters gathered outside the residence of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa demanding his

Islamabad, Mar 30: Pakistan's embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday effectively lost majority in Parliament after a key partner of the ruling coalition joined the ranks of the Opposition, which has tabled a no-confidence motion against his government in the National Assembly. The Mutta

Kyiv(AP): Russia's pledge to scale back some military operations in Ukraine drew skepticism even as the two nations planned to return Wednesday to talks that could produce a framework for ending the war that has imposed an increasingly punishing toll. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said

The United States on Friday said India's position over Ukraine was ‘unsatisfactory’ but also unsurprising given its historical relationship with Russia, Reuters reported. "I think we would certainly all acknowledge and agree that when it comes to votes at the U.N., India's position on the current

Beijing(PTI): Hopes to find the survivors among the 132 people travelling by the crashed Chinese aircraft in the thick forests in the southern Guangxi province on Monday receded as the night fell making efforts by scores of rescuers difficult. The Boeing 737 aircraft of China Eastern Airlines, wh

Kyiv(PTI): Ukraine's interior minister said Friday that it will take years to defuse unexploded ordnances after the Russian invasion. Speaking to The Associated Press in the besieged Ukrainian capital, Denys Monastyrsky said that the country will need Western assistance to cope with the massive t

Washington(PTI): The United States has said there is no indication that the recent firing of a missile from India which landed in Pakistan was anything other than accidental. India on Friday said it accidentally fired a missile two days back that landed in Pakistan and that the "deeply regrettabl

Toronto (PTI): In a tragic incident, five Indian students have been killed here in a road accident in Canada's Ontario, Canadian police said. The Canadian Press reported that the incident, between a van and a tractor trailer, took place on Saturday on Highway 401 in the Quinte West city in Southe

United Nations(PTI): India, which has managed to safely bring back over 20,000 of its nationals from Ukraine amid the ongoing war, said it is deeply concerned that despite its repeated urgings to both Russia and Ukraine, the safe corridor for Indian students stranded in eastern Ukrainian city of Sum

Lviv (Ukraine)(AP): Russian forces intensified shelling of cities in Ukraine's centre, north and south, a Ukrainian official said, as a second attempt to evacuate besieged civilians collapsed. With the Ukrainian leader urging his people to take to the streets to fight, Russian President Vladimir

Dusseldorf(AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin has intensified a crackdown on media outlets and individuals who fail to hew to the Kremlin line on the war in Ukraine, blocking Facebook and Twitter and signing into law a bill that criminalizes the intentional spreading of what Moscow deems to be fa

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has called on Russians to stage daily protests against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, depicting President Vladimir Putin as an “obviously insane tsar.” Navalny called for protests across the country and abroad to signal that not all Russians support the war a

Berlin: Russia is reneging on its engagements to the global community through its recognition of rebel-held areas in east Ukraine as independent, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Monday. Underlining that Russia had itself signed up to the Minsk peace agreements in 2014, Baerbock sai

Kyiv(AP): In what appeared to be a last-ditch diplomatic gambit brokered by French President Emmanuel Macron, the White House said US President Joe Biden has agreed in principle to a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin as long as he holds off on launching an assault that US officials warn

London, Feb 18: Millions of people in the UK were urged to cancel travel plans and stay indoors Friday as the second major storm this week prompted warnings of high winds and flying debris across northern Europe. Britain's weather service said Storm Eunice, known as Storm Zeynep in Germany, was l