ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday strongly condemned the consecration of the "Ram Temple" on the site which once hosted Babri mosque — a centuries-old Mosque demolished by a Hindu extremist mob in December 1992. Islamabad's statement comes as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the consecration ceremony
TOKYO: Japan hopes to make the world’s first “pinpoint landing” on the moon early Saturday, joining a modern push for lunar contact with roots in the Cold War-era space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Japan’s attempt to bring down its lander at
CAIRO: Between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in one city in Sudan's West Darfur region last year in ethnic violence by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militia, according to a United Nations report seen by Reuters. In the report to the
UNITED NATIONS: Women and children are the main victims the Gaza war, with some 16,000 killed and an estimated two mothers losing their lives every hour since Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel, the U.N. agency promoting gender equality said. As a result of the more than
BERLIN: Germany is expected to approve a law that shortens the path to citizenship and makes it easier to hold multiple nationalities, moves designed to ease crippling labor shortages by making the country more attractive to migrant workers. The new law, a signature policy of Chancellor
NEW DELHI: As Hindu devotees prepare to inaugurate a grand temple to one of their holiest deities, India's minority Muslims plan to begin building a new mosque in the same city later this year, hoping to make a fresh start after a bloody, decades-long dispute. Haji
DAVOS: Carla Haddad Mardini, director of UNICEF’s private fundraising and partnerships division, has highlighted the importance of integrating “a child-sensitive lens” in all aspects of the private sector’s work. In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Haddad Mardini said that children’s rights must
SEOUL: North Korea has conducted a test of its underwater nuclear weapons system in a protest against this week's joint military drills by South Korea, the United States and Japan, state media KCNA said on Friday. The test of the "Haeil-5-23" system, a name North Korea
DUBAI/ISLAMABAD: An Iranian strike on Pakistan this week that drew a rapid military riposte and raised fears of greater regional turmoil was driven by Iran's efforts to reinforce its internal security rather than its ambitions for the Middle East, according to three Iranian officials, one
LONDON: A proliferation of “middle powers” will provide the driving force in shaping the 21st-century geopolitical order, according to a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Dino Patti Djalal, founder and chair of the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia, said the end of