United Nations: Nearly 590,00 Rohingya refugees have been admitted to camps in Bangladesh and 320,00 refugee children among them are threatened by water-borne diseases and desperate living conditions, a UN spokesman said Friday. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) repor

Baloch separatists are suspected to be behind two grenade attacks Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province that injured at least 38 people on Thursday. The attacks targeted eateries in Gwadar and Mastung on Thursday evening. The attacks are likely to raise concern about security for the Pakista

U.S. regulators on Wednesday approved a second gene therapy for a blood cancer, a one-time, custom-made treatment for aggressive lymphoma in adults. The Food and Drug Administration allowed sales of the treatment from Kite Pharma. It uses the same technology, called CAR-T, as the first gene thera

Indio (US): A trucker charged with killing 13 people after a Southern California tour bus rear-ended his big-rig on a freeway last year was arrested in Georgia. Bruce Guilford, 51, of Georgia was taken into custody by a US Marshals Service fugitive task force, the Riverside County district attorn

Mumbai attack mastermind and banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed’s house arrest was on Thursday extended for another 30 days by a Judicial Review Board of Pakistan’s Punjab province. However, the board refused to allow the same in the detention of his four aides. The 30-day detention will

Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and son-in-law were indicted today by an anti-graft court in a corruption case related to the Avenfield property in London. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had registered three cases of corruption and money laundering against 67

The third iteration of US President Donald Trump’s travel ban has been halted by two judges before it was to go into effect, with one citing his past remarks on Muslims to rule the intent of the order was discriminatory. Hawaii judge Derrick K Watson ordered the first injunction on Tuesday, stayi

MULTAN, PAKISTAN: Pakistani police arrested a high-profile mullah on Wednesday over his alleged role in the murder of a social media star Qandeel Baloch last year, which reignited calls for action against so-called "honour killings". The model, who shot to fame for her provocative selfies -- tame

President Donald Trump lit a diya to celebrate Diwali in the Oval Office with a group of Indian-Americans from his administration, including ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, and members of the community, as he made a nod to a  “very strong relationship” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Trump’s

Washington: US President Donald Trump has asked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run against him in the 2020 presidential elections. Trump registered a shocking win over Clinton who was the Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential elections. Clinton in recent months have been

United Nations: Calling the Myanmar Rohingya refugee crisis “the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis and a major humanitarian emergency”, the heads of three UN aid organisations have said they were seeking 434 million USD for the victims. The officials — UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filip

Mogadishu: The death toll in the massive twin truck bombings in Somalia’s capital has mounted to 300, officials said. The officials explosion has been called as the one of the deadliest attacks to hit the capital, Mogadishu, since an Islamist insurgency began in 2007, reported the New York Times.

Baghdad, Iraq: Iraqi forces are advancing in a “major operation” to enter disputed Kirkuk city and take control of a Kurdish military base and oil fields, Kurdish authorities said early Monday. Iraqi forces and allied paramilitaries are “now advancing from Taza in South of Kirkuk in a major op wi

Virginia State University in on lockdown after a shooting on campus. University police tweeted on Saturday night, "Shooting on Campus - VSU is on lockdown. Avoid the area. Updates to follow." A second tweet said police were still on the scene, the campus remains on lockdown and to continue to

London [UK]: The 2017 Nobel Prize winner foundation, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) said by holding certification of the Iran nuclear deal United States President Donald Trump is ‘igniting new conflict rather than reducing the risk of nuclear war’. The Independent re

Islamabad [Pakistan]: The government of Pakistan’s Punjab Province has withdrawn a request to extend the house arrest of banned Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed and four of his associates under the Anti-Terrorism Act. However, all the five will continue to be kept under house arrest but und

Geneva: Aung San Suu Kyi has set out plans for a new humanitarian project to enable Myanmar‘s Rakhine State to emerge as a peaceful and developed region, which a close adviser said showed her determination to fix the country’s refugee crisis. Suu Kyi said in a televised address on Thursday evenin

Russia on Saturday launched an unmanned Progress space freighter carrying supplies to the International Space Station from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz 2.1a rocket carrying the ship successfully reached orbit eight minutes after taking off at 11:47am Moscow time (0846 GMT), a