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Islamabad: Pakistan's media regulators have blocked the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, with users across the country Thursday enduring the sixth day of sweeping disruptions, partial and complete shutdowns. There was no comment on the outage by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and government officials...

Male: On a day when military ships from India and Sri Lanka reached the Maldives coast to participate in a trilateral naval exercise, a Chinese research vessel moored close to the Male port, according to media reports Thursday. “The Chinese research vessel Xiang Yang Hong...

Islamabad: A high-level committee formed by Pakistan's election commission has completed its inquiry into the allegations of poll rigging in the garrison city of Rawalpindi levelled by a senior government officer and will submit its report to the electoral body, a media report said Thursday....

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will embark on a four-day visit to South Korea and Japan beginning March 4  to hold talks with his interlocutors on key bilateral, regional and global issues, including the challenges in the Indo-Pacific. Jaishankar's visit to the Republic...

Tehran: Candidates for Iran's parliament began campaigning Thursday in the country's first election since the bloody crackdown on the 2022 nationwide protests that followed the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody. State television said 15,200 candidates will compete for a four-year term in...

Washington: Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the break-in of a secret service vehicle assigned to US President Joe Biden's granddaughter Naomi Biden. The break-in had occurred outside Naomi Biden's house in Georgetown area in Washington DC last year, BBC reported. The incident...

Islamabad: Winning independent candidates backed by jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan's party have officially joined the rightwing Sunni Ittehad Council, a media report said Thursday. The 71-year-old former-cricketer-turned-politician's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party could not directly take part in elections due to the non-allotment...

Tunis: Tunisia in 2023 intercepted more than 75,000 illegal migrants while they were attempting to enter Europe via the Mediterranean Sea route to Italy, media reported. It is more than double the number in 2022, during which more than 35,000 undocumented immigrants were arrested while...

Washington: The Seattle police officer who struck and killed Indian student Jaahnavi Kandula while responding to an overdose call, will not face any criminal charges due to lack of "sufficient" evidence, authorities said. On Wednesday, the King County Prosecutor's Office said they will not move...

The Hague: The United States said Wednesday the United Nations' top court should not issue an advisory opinion that says Israel should “immediately and unconditionally withdraw” from territories sought for a Palestinian state. Acting State Department legal adviser Richard Visek said the 15-judge panel at...