London: The UK is set to deport up to 30 Kurdish asylum seekers to Iraq on a single charter flight organized by the UK Home Office. The mission to Irbil in Iraqi Kurdistan involves significant risk. Contractors overseeing the journey have received special training to tackle
Ottawa: Canada's government introduced legislation to implement a "national freeze" on the sale and purchase of handguns as part of a gun control package that would also limit magazine capacities and ban some toys that look like guns. The new legislation, which resurrects some measures that
Ankara: World Health Organisation (WHO) report revealed that tobacco use kills over 8 million people around the world annually tobacco farming also destroys nearly 3.5 million hectares (8.6 million acres) of area. The world marks World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) on May 31 annually to raise
Islamabad: Pakistan dispatched a second consignment consisting of items of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine at the request of the war-torn country. According to a report, a special C-130 aircraft took off today to deliver more than 7.5 tons of relief items for the war-stricken people of
KYIV: Two Russian soldiers were handed jail terms of more than 11 years each Tuesday following a trial in central Ukraine, the Ukrainian Interfax news agency reported. The servicemen, Alexander Bobykin and Alexander Ivanov, were both handed sentences of 11 years and six months under legislation
Vienna: The International Atomic Energy (IAEA) has said that it estimated Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium had grown to more than 18 times the limit laid down in Tehran’s 2015 deal with world powers. The UN watchdog said in its latest report on Iran’s nuclear programme
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court (DHC) observed that ex Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid’s February 17, 2020, speech in Amravati was in bad taste, but it did not make it a terrorist act. A Bench headed by Justice Siddharth Mridul made the comment
Davos: Israel President Isaac Herzog has said that he recently received a delegation of Pakistani-Americans, calling it an "amazing experience" and referring to it as an example that showed him "great change" vis-a-vis Israel's ties with the Muslim world. Herzog delivered these remarks during a special
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s blasphemous remarks on the marriage of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has stirred up a major controversy. Sharma made the comments during a television talk show on the Gyanvapi mosque on Times Now. Social activists and political commentators have
Islamabad: India and Pakistan have been engaged in "back channel" talks in order to break the stalemate in the relationship between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, a media report said citing official sources. According to media reports, relations between the two countries have remained strained for years