Category: World

Devastating floods on the China-Nepal border have killed at least 987 people in Nepal, the disaster authority said on Tuesday, taking overall deaths to more than 1,000. Chinese state media earlier confirmed 16 people were killed in Tibet, bringing the total toll from Wednesday’s disaster to 1,003. The number of missing in Nepal dropped to 3,916,...

Nepal’s rescue teams, helped by Chinese and Indian experts, worked overnight to reach hundreds of people believed to be stuck inside blocked hydropower project tunnels in the aftermath of last week’s Himalayan flood that carved a trail of destruction in the country’s valley towns and villages as well as across the border in China. The...

Washington, D.C. (Shazia Nayyar) Dr. Sajid Tarar, the founder of Muslims of America, has been appointed as the Ambassador of Kashmir Orphan Relief Trust (KORT) in the United States. Addressing a ceremony, Dr. Sajid Tarar said that taking care of orphans is the Sunnah of the Prophet (PBUH) and an essential part of our faith....

Washington (Shazia Nayyar) ; Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US, Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, has written an opinion piece for Newsweek. He was replying to an earlier article by India’s Ambassador, Vinay Kwatra, who said Pakistan had damaged the Indus Waters Treaty long before India put it on hold. Ambassador Sheikh said this is not true. He...

Rescue teams on Friday used heavy machinery to dig through mud and debris in Nepalese towns devastated by a flash flood two days ago, as hopes of finding survivors faded and officials worked to reduce the risk of further catastrophic flooding. The confirmed death toll in Nepal rose to 469 people early on Friday, with almost...

Qatar’s prime minister will visit Tehran on Thursday in an effort to relaunch diplomacy after the United States and Iran traded recriminations over Washington’s promise to increase economic pressure on Tehran by targeting its trade partners for sanctions. Qatar, a Gulf neighbour of Iran and a US ally, has served as a back-channel negotiator for...

A US Air Force judge on Wednesday ordered Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and three co-defendants to go on trial before a military tribunal in June 2028. The trial-scheduling order entered by Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Michael Schrama marked the latest milestone in a military prosecution beset by two decades of...

• Tehran laughs off Trump, Bessent’s claims of ‘economic D-Day’ • Treasury secretary doesn’t divulge specifics, or which countries will be targeted • China vows to defend its interests; Xi calls for diplomatic solution WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday announced a possible expansion of sanctions on countries doing business with Iran, but stopped...

GAZA CITY: Israeli strikes in the central Gaza Strip killed three people on Sunday, including a child, rescuers said. An air strike killed two people in the town of Al-Zawayda, including a four-year-old child named Muhammad Abdel Salam Taha, according to the Palestinian civil defence rescue service. “The two martyrs as well as several wounded...

FRANKFURT: Germany registered a record of around 14,000 heat-related deaths this summer as Europe struggled through a series of punishing heatwaves, official data showed on Thursday. Around 9,600 of those deaths were recorded in one week in late June when Germany baked in temperatures of over 40C, according to the Robert Koch Institute. The heatwaves...