Cairo: Israel and Egypt plan to boost gas exports to Europe under an agreement signed during a Cairo visit by the European Commission president as the bloc seeks to wean itself off Russian gas. Ursula von der Leyen also pledged relief worth 100 million euros ($104
Geneva: The UN rights chief slammed the Taliban's "institutionalised systematic oppression" of women and girls in Afghanistan, warning they face a "critical" situation. Since the Taliban returned to power last August, Afghanis have been "experiencing some of the darkest moments of a generation", Michelle Bachelet told
London: The World Health Organization said it’s creating a new vaccine-sharing mechanism to stop the outbreak of monkeypox in more than 30 countries beyond Africa. The move could result in the U.N. health agency distributing scarce vaccine doses to rich countries that can otherwise afford
New Delhi: Crowds in India set a train coach on fire and blocked railway tracks and roads in protests on Thursday against a new military recruitment system, police said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government this week announced an overhaul of recruitment for India's 1.38 million-strong armed
Mumbai: India recorded 12,213 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Thursday, its highest such tally in nearly four months. The country’s richest state of Maharashtra had 4,024 new infections on Wednesday, with the capital, New Delhi, reporting more than
Sydney: Researchers in Western Australia (WA) have embarked on what they describe as an “immense detective effort” to identify individual whales from thousands of historical photographs with the long-term aim of helping protect vital breeding regions for the endangered marine mammals. Marine biologists and ecologists from
Paris: More frequent and intense heatwaves are the most deadly form of extreme weather made worse by global warming, with death tolls sometimes in the thousands, but they can also have devastating economic impacts too, experts say. The prolonged and unseasonable scorchers gripping the central United
New Delhi: An FIR was registered against a Congress leader from Nagpur in Maharashtra for allegedly making “derogatory remarks” against Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a demonstration held near the Enforcement Directorate’s office in the city, police said. A case was registered against former Nagpur unit
New Delhi: Bulldozers in India are being rumbled into Muslim localities to tear down houses and impose collective punishment on alleged rioters — but none of this merits more than a yawn in the international community that watches the spectacle with a deafening silence. The long
Islamabad: The wife of JKLF leader Mushaal Hussein Mullick Mohammad Yasin Malik has alleged that the Indian government is planning to commit a judicial murder of her husband. Since Aug 2019 the political leadership of Indian Illegally Occupied Kashmir (IIOJK) has been languishing in Indian/ J&K