International

News Desk Islamabad: A rare and dramatic lightning strike hit the top of Dubai’s Burj Khalifaon Thursday, highlighting the intensity of unstable weather conditions sweeping across parts of the United Arab Emirates. The moment was…

News Desk US House Democrats on Thursday released dozens of additional photographs recovered from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, intensifying public scrutiny as the Justice Department approaches a court-mandated deadline to disclose its…

AFP/APP Sapporo: Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world’s disappearing glaciers. The fist-sized sample…

APP/AA Istanbul: At least 14 Egyptians died after an irregular migration boat sank near the port of the Greek island of Crete, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. According to the ministry, the boat, which departed from a…

AFP/APP Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said Moscow would “certainly” achieve its objectives in the offensive in Ukraine, including seizing the territories it claims as its own, amid ongoing international diplomatic…

AFP/APP Washington: The United States threatened countermeasures against the European Union on Tuesday over the bloc’s efforts to tax American firms, pointing to major European companies as potential targets. But the European Union…

News Desk  Islamabad: Indian police said on Tuesday that one of the two gunmen behind Australia’s deadly Bondi Beach mass shooting was an Indian national who migrated to Australia nearly three decades ago. According to authorities in…

News Desk  Islamabad: More than 17 million people in Afghanistan are facing acute food insecurity this winter, a sharp increase from last year, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. “The situation is getting worse, and we need to act…

AFP/APP Washington: US President Donald Trump on Monday filed a lawsuit seeking at least $10 billion from the BBC over a documentary that edited his 2021 speech to supporters ahead of the US Capitol riot. The lawsuit, filed in federal…

AFP/APP Sydney: A father-and-son team toting long-barrelled guns shot and killed 15 people including a 10-year-old girl at Sydney's Bondi Beach, authorities said Monday, labelling it an antisemitic terrorist attack on a Jewish festival.…