International

Washington: In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital platform that roughly half the people in the United States...

Islamabad: A polio vaccination certificate has been made mandatory for Pakistani citizens travelling to Saudi Arabia, the kingdom's civil aviation authority has announced. According to Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA), anyone found violating the latest directives would face severe penalties and legal...

Deir Al-Balah: More than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza's Health Ministry said Thursday, with no end in sight to the 15-month conflict. The ministry said a total of 46,006 Palestinians have been killed and 109,378 wounded. It has said women...

Islamabad: Pakistani passport continues to rank among the weakest in the world on the 2025 Henley Passport Index (HPI), which ranks all the world's passports according to the number of destinations they can access visa-free, and is based on exclusive Timatic data from the International...

Deir Al-Balah (Gaza Strip): The Gaza Health Ministry says the death toll from the Israel-Hamas war has climbed above 46,000. The ministry updated its toll from the ongoing 15-month conflict Thursday. It says 46,006 Palestinians have been killed and 109,378 wounded. The ministry has said...

Bhubaneswar: President of Trinidad and Tobago Christine Carla Kangaloo Thursday said India has made some of the "greatest contributions" to the world civilization in various fields such as mathematics, medicine and navigation. Addressing the 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, 2025 convention virtually as the chief guest,...

California: Multiple major wildfires raging across Los Angeles County, the most populous US county, have killed at least five people and damaged at least 1,100 buildings, authorities said. The Palisades fire, a devastating wind-driven brush fire in Pacific Palisades starting Tuesday, spread to 15,800 acres...

New Delhi/Dubai: India has pledged further humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, including material support in the first instance to the health sector and for the rehabilitation of refugees during Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri's meeting with the Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, in...

Lhasa: A total of 646 aftershocks have been detected as of Wednesday noon after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake jolted the Nepal-Tibet border region, the regional government said. The largest aftershock had a magnitude of 4.4, and was about 18 kilometres from the epicentre, said Hong Li,...

London/Dhaka: Khaleda Zia, Chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and former prime minister had an emotional reunion with her eldest son, Tarique Rahman, at the Heathrow International Airport Wednesday after more than seven years of separation. The 79-year-old former premier, who is suffering from multiple...