• 1,243 people put to death in the kingdom between 2010 and 2021, says Reprieve • Pakistanis make up highest number among those executed KARACHI: While the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has rebranded itself as a country open to investment, tourism and engagement with the rest of the world under powerful Crown Prince Mohammed Bin...
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February 1, 2023February 1, 2023World
Blinken meets Abbas, presses for two-state solution
RAMALLAH: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shuttled from Israel to the Palestinians’ West Bank on Tuesday, appealing for an end to resurgent violence and reaffirming Washington’s backing for a two-state solution to the decades-long conflict. Blinken is urging calm on both sides after last week’s killing by a Palestinian gunman of seven people outside...
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January 31, 2023January 31, 2023World
World ‘dangerously unprepared’ for next pandemic: Red Cross
GENEVA: All countries remain “dangerously unprepared” for the next pandemic, the Red Cross warned on Monday, saying future health crises could also collide with increasingly likely climate-related disasters. Despite three “brutal” years of the Covid-19 pandemic, strong preparedness systems are “severely lacking”, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said. The...
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January 30, 2023January 30, 2023World
UAE president’s visit to Islamabad postponed due to ‘weather conditions’
UAE President HH Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s one-day visit to Islamabad — scheduled for today — has been postponed due to bad weather conditions, the Prime Minister’s Office said on Monday. “Due to weather conditions, President HH Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s visit to the friendly Islamic Republic of Pakistan scheduled for...
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January 29, 2023January 29, 2023World
UN sees groundswell of xenophobia across globe
UNITED NATIONS: The internet has “super-charged” hate speech, allowing perpetrators to spread their “lies, conspiracies and threats,” the United Nations warned, hours after an anti-Islam activist burned copies of the Muslim holy book near a Copenhagen mosque facing the Turkish embassy in Denmark. “Around the world, we see a groundswell of xenophobia, racism and intolerance,...
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January 27, 2023January 27, 2023World
Thousands take part in Australia’s ‘invasion day’ protests
People participate in the ‘Invasion Day’ rally in Melbourne on January 26, 2023. — Photo provided by Reuters SYDNEY: Thousands of Australians marked the country’s national day celebrations on Thursday with rallies in support of Indigenous people, many of whom describe the anniversary of the day a British fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour as “Invasion...
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January 26, 2023January 26, 2023World
No backchannel diplomacy between Pakistan and India: Khar
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar said on Thursday that ever since the incumbent government came to power, there has been no backchannel diplomacy going on between Pakistan and India “untold to the rest of the world”. “At this moment, there is no such thing under way,” she said during a Senate...
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January 25, 2023January 25, 2023World
US sues Google for ‘abusing online ad business dominance’
WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department sued Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday, accusing the company of abusing its dominance of the digital advertising business and said Google should be forced to sell its ad manager suite, in the government’s latest jab at thwarting Big Tech’s market power. The lawsuit tackles a business at Google that is responsible...
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January 24, 2023January 24, 2023World
Hundreds protest in Afghan city against desecration of Holy Quran in Sweden
Protester gather during a demonstration against the burning of the Holy Quran by Swedish-Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan, in Khost on January 24. — AFP Hundreds of Afghan men staged a protest in the eastern city of Khost on Tuesday to express anger at the desecration of the Holy Quran in the Swedish capital over the weekend....
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January 24, 2023January 24, 2023World
US wants regional stability in South Asia to ‘advance’, says Pak-India dialogue ‘a matter of their own’
The United States has said it has been an explicit proponent of regional stability in South Asia while insisting that a dialogue between the two important regional players — Pakistan and India — was a matter between the two countries. “We have long called for regional stability in South Asia, but the pace, the scope,...