Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit and New Zealand’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Winston Peters, held talks in Cairo about the Palestinian cause and other regional and international issues of mutual concern. Aboul Gheit commended authorities in New Zealand for condemning Israeli aggression against the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip, and advocating…
Russia and China on Friday vetoed a US-backed draft resolution at the UN Security Council on Gaza, with Moscow rejecting what it described as a “diluted formulation” of a ceasefire call that will not save Palestinian lives and fails to rein in Israel at a time when the enclave “has been virtually wiped off the…
CHIANG MAI, Thailand: Thai tourist hotspot Chiang Mai was blanketed by hazy smog Friday, as residents and visitors to the usually picturesque northern city were left wheezing in the toxic air. The country’s second largest city topped air monitoring website IQAir’s table of the world’s most polluted cities early Friday.Levels of PM2.5 pollutants — cancer-causing…
BANGKOK: Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra began his first public appearances since leaving detention, with an early morning visit to a shrine in Bangkok on Thursday before flying to his home province of Chiang Mai in the country’s north.The controversial billionaire, a longtime rival of the country’s conservative elite who was toppled in a…
Tear gas and barricades have been deployed to deter farmers, who form an influential voting bloc, ahead of the general election scheduled for May India has offered guaranteed support prices for pulses, corn and cotton in a bid to break a deadlock with protesting farmers, Trade Minister Piyush Goyal said after week-long clashes with security…
Tehreek-e-Insaf party has decided to sit in the Opposition in Parliament Authorities on Saturday imposed prohibitory orders in Pakistan’s capital as jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s party began nationwide protests against alleged rigging and stealing of its mandate in the recent elections. Criticising the outcome of the polls, which saw the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party-backed independent candidates emerging…
Based on spot profiling, Customs officials apprehended the person and further investigation is underway Customs at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, on Saturday arrested a passenger who tried to smuggle gold worth Rs5.8 million. The authority posted on X saying that based on spot profiling, officials apprehended the person who had…
India’s Supreme Court on Thursday scrapped a seven year-old election funding system that allows individuals and companies to donate money to political parties anonymously and without any limits. The decision is seen as a setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been the largest beneficiary of the system it introduced in…
Officials in both PML-N and PPP said they had formed internal committees to discuss the modalities of government formation A political stalemate in Pakistan, after an inconclusive election, ended with Shehbaz Sharif chosen to lead the country again, while efforts were underway on Wednesday to get the second-largest party to join the government to ensure…
Colombo: India’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Santosh Jha on Sunday laid the foundation stone for the construction of the King Ashoka’s Pillar of Dharma at the Rajaguru Sri Subuthi Temple in Sri Lanka’s Wadduwa. “Reinforcement of the deep cultural connect! HC @santjha laid the Foundation Stone for the construction of King Ashoka’s Pillar of…
