LONDON: U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faced heavy pressure from his own Conservatives to take swift action to bring down migration, as new data showed net migration numbers were higher than previously thought. The Office for National Statistics revised its estimates for net migration to the
MOSCOW: A leading Russian supporter of President Vladimir Putin has denied a report that he adopted a child forcibly taken from a Ukrainian orphanage. Citing Russian and Ukrainian documents, the BBC reported that Russian lawmaker Sergei Mironov had adopted a child, now two years old, who
BEIJING: Northern China has reported an increase in “influenza-like illness” since mid-October when compared to the same period in the previous three years, the WHO said China’s National Health Commission told reporters last week that the respiratory illness spike was due to the lifting of Covid-19
LONDON: A group of eight UK-based journalists employed by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) have accused the organisation of not providing an authentic account of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The group of journalists, in a 2,300-word letter addressed to Al Jazeera, accused the BBC
KHAN YUNIS Palestinian Territories: The bodies of dozens of unidentified people were buried on Wednesday in a mass grave at a cemetery in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Wrapped in blue tarpaulin, the bodies were lowered on stretchers, some of them stained with blood,
NEW YORK: Stuart Seldowitz, a former adviser to the National Security Council under ex-US president Barack Obama, has been charged with five counts after attacking a halal street vendor in New York City. Seldowitz, 64, allegedly targeted Mohammad Hussein, a 24-year-old Muslim street vendor in an
LONDON: Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the general counsel of Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) and a pro-Khalistan Sikh leader, has responded to his assassination plot by India which was exposed in a report by the Financial Times (FT). After reports of the United States warning India over Pannun's
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday backed the proposal of international peace conference to restart peace process on Palestine. "Peace in the region can only be achieved with the implementation of relevant UN resolutions," Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said at a news conference in Islamabad. "Pakistan
GAZA: Israel's government and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a four-day pause in fighting to allow the release of 50 captives held in Gaza in exchange for 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, and the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave. Officials from Qatar, which
ISLAMABAD: Climate change poses a serious threat to pregnant women, babies and children which calls for urgent attention, said a UN report ahead of the global Conference of the Parties (COP28) negotiations on climate change in Dubai. The report, named Call for Action, said climate change