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Islamabad: A high court in Pakistan Thursday withdrew its stay order on jailed former premier Imran Khan's in-camera trial in the cipher case while declaring all proceedings in the case after December 14 as void and invalid. Justice Miangul Aurangzeb of the Islamabad High Court...

Islamabad: Pakistan Thursday said that it was not interested in a dialogue with the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) after a leading cleric visited Kabul and talked of dialogue following his meeting with the Afghan Taliban leadership. Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch in her weekly...

Dubai: Iran confirmed Thursday that its forces seized an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, which was reported earlier in the day to have been boarded by armed men in military uniforms. The state-run IRNA news agency ran a brief story acknowledging the seizure...

Beijing: China Thursday said that it "firmly opposes external interference" in the internal affairs of the Maldives and supports the island nation in upholding its sovereignty and independence as Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu concluded his maiden visit here amid a diplomatic row with India. "The...

New Delhi: About 416 Myanmarese soldiers crossed over to India in view of the situation arising out of the fighting between Myanmar's armed ethnic groups and the government forces, said Army Chief General Manoj Pande Thursday, adding the Indian military is "closely watching" the unfolding...

Islamabad: A 6.0 magnitude earthquake jolted parts of Pakistan Thursday, according to the country's meteorological department. The epicenter of the quake was in Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan, the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) posted on X. The 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck at 2:20 pm (local...

Windham (UK): Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Wednesday suspended his Republican presidential bid just days before Iowa's leadoff caucuses, ceding to growing pressure to drop out of the race from those desperate to deny Donald Trump a glidepath to the nomination. Addressing supporters at...

Des Moines(US): In their most hostile encounter yet, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis attacked each other early and often in Wednesday's Republican primary debate rather than focus on Donald Trump, the absent front-runner, as both tried to demonstrate they were the strongest alternative to the...

Tokyo: The 7.6 magnitude earthquake that hit the western coastline of Japan on New Year's has killed 213 people as of Thursday. Eight of the deaths were at evacuation centres, where rescued people died from injuries and sickness. Such deaths weren't directly caused by the...

San Francisco: The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has finally approved a number of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) shares and with the decision, the world's largest cryptocurrency has joined the global financial system. The decision will make around a dozen spot Bitcoin ETFs...