New York: The UN Human Rights Council said on Thursday it would hold a special session on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, amid Israel's deadly violence against the Palestinians in Gaza. The session, planned for next Thursday, will address “the grave human rights situation
London: London Institute of Peace Research (LIPR) has set up its second Peace Club in Harare, Zimbabwe as part of its programme to establish a network of peace clubs all over the world to advance its agenda of peace and harmony in the world. The Peace
New Delhi: India has ordered tighter surveillance of a rare fungal disease hitting COVID-19 patients, officials said on Thursday, piling pressure on hospitals struggling with the world’s highest number of daily infections of the novel coronavirus. ucormycosis, or “black fungus” usually infects people whose immune system
Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan and his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang on Thursday resolved to strengthen and enhance bilateral cooperation between the two countries. In a telephonic conversation, the two leaders stressed the need to continue with high-level exchanges to further diversify and deepen strategic cooperation
Vienna: An agreement is "shaping up" to bring the United States back into the nuclear deal with Iran, negotiators said, citing headway in efforts to break the impasse. "We ve made good progress," Enrique Mora, the European Union official who chaired the talks between Russia, China,
Ahmedabad: A major new storm was brewing in the Bay of Bengal off India’s east coast, forecasters warned Thursday, just days after the biggest cyclone to hit the west of the country in decades left at least 110 people confirmed dead. Scientists say cyclones in the
Islamabad: Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir Shehryar Khan Afridi Thursday deplored the arrests of the close family members of prominent APHC leader and Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chief Mohammad Ashraf Khan Sehrai Shaheed by the occupational regime of Jammu and Kashmir and called upon the United
Geneva: Conflicts and natural disasters forced someone to flee within their own country every second of last year, pushing the number of people living in internal displacement to a record high, monitors said Thursday. This came despite strict restrictions on movement imposed around the globe in
Washington: Progressive congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez led efforts to block US arms sales to Israel, a move that was unlikely to succeed but highlighted tensions among Democratic lawmakers grappling with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A clear majority of Republicans back Israel in its military confrontation with Gaza that
London: London's Met Police said that it was investigating an officer who was caught on camera hugging a demonstrator at a march and shouting "free Palestine", the BBC reported. Footage that went viral on social media showed the unidentified officer holding a white rose and raising