Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed on Friday that his government would complete the ambitious China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) at “any cost” as the USD 60 billion project is a manifestation of the all-weather friendship between the two countries. Addressing a meeting held here to review progress on the CPEC projects, Khan said it is […]
Amid global concerns that China delayed giving information regarding the novel coronavirus outbreak, a team of WHO (World Health Organisation) will visit the country next week to investigate the origins of the virus and its spread to human beings. The visit will take place more than six months after the WHO’s Country Office in China […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged officials to maintain “maximum alert” against the coronavirus pandemic, criticising unspecified complacencies in the country’s anti-virus campaign that he said risked “unimaginable and irretrievable crisis.” Despite the warnings, state media said Friday that Kim reaffirmed government claims that there hasn’t been a single case of COVID-19 in North […]
President Donald Trump on Thursdaywaded right in the middle of India’s dispute with China, asserting that Beijing’s aggressive stance in Ladakh fits with the larger pattern of Chinese aggression in other parts of the world. President Trump’s office did not elaborate on China’s aggression elsewhere but is seen as a clear reference to Beijing’s efforts […]
ANKARA: Up to 60 migrants may have been trapped in a boat that sank in an eastern lake last week, Turkey’s interior minister said on Wednesday. Turkey launched a search-and-rescue mission involving helicopters and boats after the ferry carrying migrants across Lake Van was reported missing on June 27. So far, search teams have recovered […]
New United States Covid-19 cases rose by more than 47,000 on Tuesday according to a Reuters tally, the biggest one-day spike since the start of the pandemic, as the government’s top infectious disease expert warned that number could soon double. California, Texas and Arizona have emerged as new US epicentres of the pandemic, reporting record increases in […]
Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli’s recent anti-India remarks and claim that efforts are being made to oust him after his government redrew Nepal’s political map has backfired, with top leaders of the ruling Nepal Communist Party demanding his resignation on Tuesday. As soon as the powerful Standing Committee meeting of the Nepal Communist Party started […]
The World Health Organisation is sending a team to China next week to find out the source of COVID-19, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a daily briefing on Monday. “Knowing the source of the virus is very, very important. We can find the virus better when we know everything about the virus, including how […]
Kabul, Afghanistan: At least 23 civilians were killed in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province and dozens were injured when rockets fell on a cattle market on Monday, said Afghan government and Taliban officials. The warring sides blamed each other for the attack on the open-air weekly cattle market in Sangin district where hundreds of villagers from […]
Security forces killed four terrorists who attempted to storm the Pakistan Stock Exchange compound in Karachi in a gun and grenade attack on Monday morning. According to a police statement, one sub inspector and four security guards were martyred in the attack as well as one civilian. Three police officials have been injured, the statement […]