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Islamabad: A top court here Tuesday ordered authorities to de-seal the central office of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, nearly two weeks after it was shut down. The Capital Development Authority (CDA) May 24 raided the PTI office in Islamabad...

New Delhi: Mexico's National Electoral Institute, Sunday, announced Claudia Sheinbaum, candidate of the ruling Morena party, the winner of the presidential elections. Sheinbaum is projected as the winner with 58.3 to 60.7 per cent of the votes, reports Al Jazeera. The first woman to be...

Islamabad: A Pakistani court Monday acquitted jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and other top leaders of his party in two cases related to vandalism during a protest march in 2022 following his arrest in an alleged corruption case. The 71-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party...

Damascus: Israeli airstrikes after midnight Monday, killed 12 pro-Iranian militias in Syria's northern province of Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The militias, consisting of Syrian and non-Syrian nationals, have a significant presence in the area surrounding the city of Aleppo, it said....

Tokyo: An earthquake of magnitude 6 struck Japan's Noto region in the central prefecture of Ishikawa early Monday, according to the latest reports of the country's weather agency. The temblor occurred at 6:31 a.m. (local time) at a depth of 14 km, measuring upper-6 on...

Sao Paulo: The death toll in Brazil floods has risen to 171, the state's civil defence agency said. Cases of leptospirosis are also on the rise, it added. Since April 29, floods caused by record rains and rising rivers have affected 2.39 million people, with...

Sanaa: Yemen's Houthi group claim fresh attacks on the US aircraft carrier Eisenhower, another US warship and four commercial cargo vessels in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea. While speaking on Houthi-run al-Masirah TV, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said it was the group's second...

Washington: US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin has welcomed an agreement by Defence Chiefs of South Korea and Japan to take measures to prevent the recurrence of a 2018 maritime spat over Japanese patrol aircraft. South Korean Defence Minister Shin Won-sik and his Japanese counterpart,...

Beijing: A Chinese spacecraft landed on the far side of the moon Sunday to collect soil and rock samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side. The landing module touched down at 6:23am Beijing time in a...

Singapore: United States Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin told a gathering of top security officials Saturday that war with China was neither imminent nor unavoidable, despite rapidly escalating tensions in the Asia-Pacific region, stressing the importance of renewed dialogue between him and his Chinese counterpart...