The UN Secretary-General on Friday welcomed a $40 million contribution announced by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center to support a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees emergency appeal in Gaza.Antonio Guterres said that “at a time when the people of Gaza face the threat of looming famine, such…
Saudi Fund for Development CEO Sultan Al-Marshad and his accompanying delegation were received by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday in Pakistan, the fund reported via its account on X. During the meeting, the five decades of development relationship and the progress of the fund’s development projects in Pakistan were discussed.
President Joe Biden plans to host Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, who is visiting next month as the countries hold formal talks about winding down the mission of a US-led military coalition formed to fight the Daesh group in Iraq.The meeting is scheduled for April 15, the White House said Friday.The leaders will “consult…
Lebanon will file an urgent complaint with the UN Security Council over what it called Israel’s violation of its sovereignty by disrupting its navigation systems, the foreign ministry said on Friday.In a statement, the foreign ministry said Israel was affecting the safety of civil aviation in the airspace of Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport.“Lebanon also…
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…
The bombing killed people who were trying to collect their monthly salaries The UAE condemned the terrorist attack that killed three people and injured 12 others in Afghanistan’s Kandahar city on Thursday. The bombing happened at a busy bank — and all of the victims were people who had gathered there to collect their monthly…
Eyeing a prospective Israel-Hamas truce deal in Qatar, the US draft resolution does not explicitly demand a ceasefire now. The United States has circulated a draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an “immediate ceasefire tied to the release of hostages” in Gaza, according to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken who is on a…
Spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev underwent an emergency brain surgery at a private hospital in New Delhi, India, a statement from the hospital said on Wednesday. The surgery was carried out on March 17 to remove bleeding in the skull. Sadhguru was weaned off the ventilator post-surgery, the statement from Indraprastha Apollo Hospital said, adding he has shown…
New Delhi: The separate telephonic conversations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy is being seen as a fresh affirmation of how PM Modi is being seen as a peacemaker between the countries that are locked in a protracted military conflict, sources said. During the telephonic…
Islamabad : At least two Pakistani soldiers and eight terrorists were killed in the fighting that erupted after multiple blasts and gunfire were reported at Pakistan’s Gwadar Port Authority Complex on Wednesday, Dawn reported, citing the military’s media wing. Pakistan’s Inter Services Public Relations informed in a statement that a group of eight terrorists attempted to…
