New York: Ahead of the 21st anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay detention center, where the United States has detained nearly 780 Muslim men without charge or trial over the years. Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Americas director, said: “It’s tragic that 21 years after
London: Britain is considering supplying Ukraine with tanks for the first time to help the country fight Russian forces, Sky News reported, citing unnamed sources. Discussions have been taking place "for a few weeks" about delivering the British Army s Challenger 2 main battle tank to
Brest: Worldwide acts of piracy fell to their lowest level last year since statistics were first established in 2008, a maritime security body said on Tuesday. The Maritime Information Cooperation and Awareness Center (MICA), which is operated by members of the French Navy and partner navies,
Washington: Classified documents from Joe Biden's vice-presidential days were discovered in November by the US president's personal attorneys at a Washington think tank, a White House lawyer said. Nearly 10 documents were found at Biden's office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement,
Washington DC: The United States (US) supported Pakistan’s right to defend itself from terrorism, saying that the Pakistani people had “suffered tremendously” from such attacks as Washington repeated it call on the Afghan Taliban not to US backs Pakistan’s right to defend itself from terrorism. In
Beijing: Chinese health experts are warning that counterfeit versions of Indian generics are flooding the black market in China as a record wave of COVID-19 cases fuels demand for antivirals, particularly Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Indian generic versions. With the huge demand for COVID-19 medication, some fake
New Delhi: Of 20 government datasets that IndiaSpend analysed, the collection of data or its public release has been delayed for 12 datasets. Crucial data such as from the census, household expenditure and poverty estimates, which influence other data sets and policymaking, are over two
Lahore: Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ramiz Raja on Tuesday said that the BJP-influenced mindset has taken over the Indian cricket board, and are trying their best to restrict Pakistan internationally. Addressing an event at the Government College University Lahore, Ramiz Raja said that the
New Delhi: Parts of northern India are experiencing a severe, prolonged cold wave that has thrown normal life out of gear. Dense fog has delayed more than a hundred flights and dozens of trains, causing chaos at airports and railway stations. Authorities in the capital Delhi
New Delhi: Indian authorities will demolish some buildings in a northern Himalayan town near the China border after evacuating families in the past few days, an official said on Tuesday, as hundreds of houses developed cracks in the area popular with pilgrims. Experts and residents have