MOSCOW: Russia said on Monday it had carried out another successful test of its Zircon hypersonic cruise missile, as world powers race to develop the advanced weaponry. Russia, the United States, France and China have […]
STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s parliament on Monday elected Magdalena Andersson as the country’s prime minister — the first woman to hold the post — five days after her initial bid lasted only hours. Despite being a nation […]
North Korea takes watching foreign content very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that it is punishing a man who smuggled South Korean Netflix series Squid Game into the country with death. A group of high […]
WASHINGTON: Families of the 9/11 victims want the entire $7 billion of Afghan assets — withheld at the US Federal Reserve — paid as compensation for the terrorist attacks that killed and injured thousands, the […]
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan on Monday signed an agreement with the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) to receive $3 billion, which will be placed in the SBP’s account with an aim to improve […]
BEIJING: Several regions in China have extended maternity leave by at least 30 days, in the latest attempt to encourage child-rearing as the country faces a demographic crisis fuelled by a record-low birth rate. The […]
LIMA: A team of experts has found a mummy estimated to be at least 800 years old on Peru’s central coast, one of the archaeologists who participated in the excavation said on Friday. The mummified […]
KABUL: The Taliban co-founder and now prime minister of Afghanistan Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund pledged on Saturday that his government will “not interfere” in other countries’ internal affairs, and urged international charities to continue offering […]
Scotland Yard has rejected the Indian media reports that it conducted a raid on the West London office of the Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) – the US-based organisation that supports the secession of Punjab from […]
DHAKA: Huge crowds blockaded busy streets and harassed drivers in the Bangladeshi capital on Thursday to protest the death of a high school student in a road accident. Thousands of uniformed students brought traffic to […]
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