French police clash with ‘yellow vest’ protesters on Champs ElyseesFrench riot police fired tear gas canisters at "yellow vest" protesters in central Paris on Saturday at the start of a planned demonstration against the high cost of living under President Emmanuel Ma...
IS fights to hang on a year after defeat in IraqA year after it was routed from Iraq in a devastating war that left entire neighborhoods and towns in ruins, the Islamic State group is fighting to hang on to its last enclave in eastern Syria, engagi...
Pakistan Navy Submarine Hangor heroic action in 1971 WarPNS/M HANGOR a French Daphne class submarine was commissioned in France 0n 01 December 1969, followed by two others of same class. By 1971 four PN submarines (one Fleet & three Daphne) had arrived...
Empowering youth of newly merged districts of KP through skills development programmeInauguration ceremony for Skills Development programme was held on December 6, 2018 at Rawalpindi, under FATA Economic Revitalization Project (FERP) funded by United States Agency for International De...
Yemen’s warring parties meet for 3rd day of talks in SwedenYemen's warring parties are meeting for a third day of talks in Sweden aimed at halting the country's catastrophic 4-year-old war. Both the internationally recognized government, which is backed by a...
China launches probe to explore dark side of Moon — XinhuaChina on Saturday launched a first probe ever to explore the dark side of the Moon, marking another milestone in its ambitious space programme, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The probe, the...
Landmark environmental protections being rolled backOne after another, landmark US protections for climate, air and land are in the crosshairs of the Trump administration as his agency leaders move past early fumbles and scandals to start delivering on...
Virginia city hopes to heal after man’s murder convictionA man who drove his car into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Virginia was convicted Friday of first-degree murder, a verdict that local civil rights activists hope will help hea...
Steady as she goes: Merkel 2.0 takes center stage in GermanyGermany’s Christian Democrats have played it safe. By opting for Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel as party leader, they have voted for a centrist who is long on party uni...
US takes aim at UN migration pact ahead of conferenceThe United States on Friday took a fresh swipe at a UN migration pact that it shunned a year ago, just days before an international conference in Morocco to endorse the accord. In a lengthy national s...
Canadian university to do clinical trials at Indus HospitalThe University of Manitoba has selected Pakistan's Indus Hospital for Clinical Trials. An agreement to this effect was signed between the University of Manitoba and The Indus Hospital (TIH), Pakistan...
Myanmar activists jailed over anti-war protestsA court in Myanmar's restive Kachin state has jailed three activists for defaming the military, their lawyer said Saturday, as campaigners slammed the "chilling warning" the verdict sends critical voi...
Brazil’s Temer announces ‘intervention’ in state bordering VenezuelaBrazil's President Michel Temer said on Friday he had reached an agreement with Roraima state Governor Suely Campos for a federal "intervention" in the state that borders Venezuela. Temer said via Twi...
Many US-bound caravan migrants disperse as asylum process stallsThousands of Central American migrants spent weeks traveling north through Mexico in caravans, walking and hitching rides when possible, only for many to give up hope and turn back when they met resis...
Malaysia Muslims rally to support upholding Malay privilegesTens of thousands of Malaysian Muslims rallied Saturday in Kuala Lumpur against any attempt to strip the ethnic Malay majority of its privileges, in the first massive street gathering since Prime Mini...
Russian offered Trump campaign ‘political’ cooperation in 2015US prosecutors have revealed that a Russian offered cooperation to Donald Trump's campaign as early as 2015, declaring that the president's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen had provided "relevant" and "substan...
Trump picks attorney general and UN envoy in fresh staff shake-upIn another senior staff shake-up inside his often turbulent administration, US President Donald Trump said on Friday he has picked the two people he wants to be the next US attorney general and the ne...
Grave dilemma: South African cities short of cemetery spaceIn the middle of the vast Avalon cemetery in Johannesburg's Soweto township, two gravediggers shovelled soil out of an old grave containing remains buried years ago. They were preparing the grave to b...
Trump seen picking Army head Milley as next chairman of Joint ChiefsUS President Donald Trump is expected to name the Army's top general, Mark Milley, as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, US officials told Reuters on Friday, in a decision that appears to...
White nationalist convicted of murdering protester in Charlottesville, VirginiaA white nationalist who drove his car into a crowd protesting against a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year, killing one of the counterdemonstrators, was found guilty on Fr...
Ex-FBI chief Comey agrees to testify for second day before House panelsFormer FBI Director James Comey testified about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails behind closed doors on Friday before House of Representatives lawmakers and said he believed the sess...
Six dead, dozens hurt in stampede at Italian nightclubSix people died and dozens were injured in a stampede when panic broke out during a rap concert at an Italian nightclub Saturday morning, the fire service said. Media reports say the suspected use of...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro brokering deal to end trucker, farmer feudBrazil's next government is working to strike a deal between farmers and truckers over minimum freight prices by revising the policy, rather than throwing it out as many have demanded, the country's f...
Trump calls Tillerson ‘dumb as a rock’ and ‘lazy’US President Donald Trump on Friday called former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson "dumb as a rock" and "lazy as hell" a day after the former diplomat said he had warned the president against doing th...