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Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan remanded in custody for 8 days 10 May 2023 - 03:02 pm

Islamabad: A judge ruled Wednesday thatPakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan can be held for eight days. The ruling comes a day after...

Russia allows visa-free entry for Georgians, restores direct flights 10 May 2023 - 02:40 pm

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed two decrees abolishing visas for Georgian nationals and lifting a 2019 ban on direct flights...

Knife attack in Polish orphanage kills one, injures 9 10 May 2023 - 01:13 pm

WARSAW, Poland: A 16-year-old girl was killed and nine other people were injured in a knife attack in an orphanage in central Poland,...

Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan appears in special court 10 May 2023 - 12:50 pm

Islamabad: Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan appeared in a special court at the capital's police headquarters Wednesday to answer graft charges, local...

Japan backs use of GPS trackers for defendants on bail after Ghosn case 10 May 2023 - 12:13 pm

Tokyo: Japan on Wednesday enacted a law authorising courts to use GPS for tracking defendants on bail, a measure pushed for after the...

15 children drown, 25 missing in Nigeria boat accident 10 May 2023 - 12:04 pm

Kano, Nigeria: Fifteen children drowned and 25 others were missing when a boat capsized in a river in northwest Nigeria's Sokoto state, a...

Norway palace says King Harald recovering from infection 10 May 2023 - 11:56 am

Oslo: Norway's 86-year-old King Harald is recovering from an infection that saw him hospitalised earlier this week but will remain on sick leave...

Ecologists back culling of kangaroos in Australia 10 May 2023 - 11:50 am

Sydney: To outsiders, the kangaroo is an instantly-recognisable symbol of the Australian wilderness, but within the country the native animal poses a major...

World no.3 pole vaulter auctions off winning shoes for Philippine kids 10 May 2023 - 11:45 am

Phnom Penh: Pole vault star Ernest John Obiena will auction off his gold-medal-winning spikes to raise money for children back home in the...

Construction boom turns once sparsely populated Mongolian city into concrete jungle 10 May 2023 - 11:01 am

Ulaanbaatar: Otgoo recalls running around freely as a child in Mongolia's once sparsely populated capital city, but he fears a rapid construction boom...

Body of missing schoolboy found after New Zealand cave tragedy 10 May 2023 - 10:48 am

Wellington: New Zealand police said on Wednesday they had recovered the body of a teen killed during a "tragic" school caving trip that...

Tunisian police officer kills four at synagogue pilgrimage 10 May 2023 - 10:47 am

Tunis:A Tunisian police officer shot dead four people at Africa's oldest synagogue in an attack Tuesday that sparked panic during an annual Jewish...

Pakistan braces for turmoil as ex-PM Khan due in court 10 May 2023 - 10:21 am

Islamabad:Pakistan braced for more turmoil a day after former Prime Minister Imran Khan was dragged from court in Islamabad and his supporters clashed...

Sudanese war displaced double to more than 700,000: UN 09 May 2023 - 10:49 pm

Khartoum: The war between Sudan's generals is having increasingly severe consequences for civilians, with a doubling over the past week of the number...

US, UK back 'rule of law' in Pakistan after ex-PM Khan arrested 09 May 2023 - 09:41 pm

Washington: The top diplomats of the United States and Britain together called on Tuesday for adherence to the "rule of law" in Pakistan...

Turks abroad wrap up voting in landmark election 09 May 2023 - 09:16 pm

Istanbul: Millions of Turks living abroad wrapped up voting on Tuesday, in a tense election that has turned into a referendum on President...

Autopsies reveal organs missing in Kenya cult deaths 09 May 2023 - 08:39 pm

Nairobi: Autopsies on corpses found in mass graves linked to a Kenyan cult have revealed missing organs and raised suspicions of forced harvesting,...