Joe Biden & Xi Jinping want to ease friction in a historic meeting. The US & China needed to make sure that their rivalry did not veer into conflict. US officials anticipated tangible actions to revive staff-level discussions US President Joe Biden and Chinese Leader Xi Jinping met on Wednesday to discuss issues that could … Read more
Sheikh Rashid warns of civil war in April in Pakistan He said government wants disqualification of IK He also said that PDM fears contesting elections RAWALPINDI: Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid said Friday that there will be a civil war in the country in April. He was addressing the media after his release … Read more
Members of the US House of Representatives will try to pick a Speaker for 4th day. Kevin McCarthy has so far fallen short of the 218 votes needed to win. That’s as a result of a right-wing group inside his own party not supporting him. In an effort to break a political deadlock, members of … Read more
The heirs to the throne, William and Charles, purportedly gave the Queen a ‘ultimatum’ Allowing Prince Andrew to attend the Order of the Garter service. Andrew had been pleading with the Queen to restore his HRH designation and his job as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards. According to The Daily Star, Prince Andrew’s continuous demands … Read more
UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen on Sunday welcomed a general amnesty aimed at freeing thousands of Syrians accused of terrorism. Several amnesties have been issued by President Bashar al-Assad during the country’s devastating 11-year war, but the most recent in April was the most comprehensive related to terrorism charges since the conflict began, according to … Read more
According to Christian leader Samir Geagea, Lebanon’s hijacked sovereignty must be returned following an election that denied the powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah a legislative majority. “All strategic decision-making should return to the Lebanese state… and security and military matters should be handled exclusively by the Lebanese army,” the head of the Lebanese Forces party told … Read more
Nine people were killed and two dozen were injured in clashes between security forces and “terrorists” in a troubled region of Tajikistan bordering Afghanistan and China on Wednesday, The interior ministry said. According to the ministry, members of “organized criminal groups” armed with weapons and Molotov cocktails attacked security officials in Gorno-eastern Badakhshan’s region. One … Read more
Hundreds of protesters marched in Sarajevo, Bosnia’s capital, on Monday, urging Russia to cease the Ukraine conflict. Sarajevo was besieged during a devastating civil war in the 1990s. Bosnia’s inter-ethnic war killed nearly 100,000 people, of whom more than 11,000 died during the Sarajevo siege by Serb forces. The march was organized by associations gathering … Read more
A member of parliament for the region told AFP on Friday that six soldiers were killed in a rebel assault in the Central African Republic’s southeast, where civil war has raged for years. “At four in the morning, rebels attacked the town of Nzako,” near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, 700 kilometres … Read more
Irregular border crossings by migrants into the EU reached a new high in the first quarter of this year, according to Frontex, the EU’s border protection agency. The number of attempted crossings from the EU to the UK has nearly tripled since the same period last year, according to the report. “The first quarter … Read more
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will pay small sums to the families of people who were killed or went missing in the carnage of the island nation’s decade-long civil war, authorities announced Tuesday. Successive Sri Lankan governments have faced international censure over the conflict, which ended in 2009 after the collapse of the minority Tamil separatist movement’s armed wing. … Read more
Calls for genocide could lead to civil war One of the top Muslim actors of Bollywood, Naseeruddin Shah, has said thatare made for the ethnic cleansing of Muslim in India, they are going to fight back. “If it comes to the crunch, we will fight back… If it comes to that, we will. We are … Read more
KARACHI: The major upheaval in Afghanistan this month and the swift Taliban takeover has hardly brought about any change for the thousands of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan for nearly four decades. Zikarullah, 60, is among those Afghan refugees who came to Pakistan after the war broke out in the neighbouring country during the 1980s. … Read more
ADEN: Pro-government Yemeni forces launched a military operation against the Houthi rebel group in the country’s southwestern province of Taiz on Friday, a military official told Xinhua. According to the military official who asked to remain anonymous, “units of the 17th Infantry Brigade of the pro-government Yemeni army attacked a number of sites controlled by … Read more
SANAA: Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition overnight destroyed at least five pick-up vehicles carrying combatants of the Houthi militia in Yemen’s central province of Marib, a military source told Xinhua on Monday. “The vehicles were destroyed in and around the frontline of the southwestern district of Rahabah, killing all aboard,” the source in Marib said … Read more
Government ministers have pointed to the ridiculous claims by the Indian media and demanded that the management of the social networking platform Twitter take notice, saying that a “civil war” has broken out in Karachi. Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari said it was unfortunate that Twitter was “deliberately” ignoring the Indian media’s false … Read more
Russia and China, two members of the Security Council, have stated opposition to using force or imposing sanctions on Syria. According to the news agency, a resolution was tabled by the United Nations to provide assistance to refugees and asylum seekers in war-torn areas, seeking approval to provide assistance for one more year in the … Read more
Saudi Arabia on Thursday, announced a 500 million dollars donation to civil war victims of Yemen. According to Arab media, the amount of donation has been handed over to the concerned departments on the orders of Saudi King Khadim ul Harmain Shareefain Salman bin Abdulaziz, to help the citizens of Yemen, who have become a … Read more
