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A court in Pakistans capital has ordered police not to arrest several journalists without its permission, days after complaints were lodged accusing the TV anchors of inciting hatred against the military

Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Monday that a top US diplomat...

Former information minister says country suffering under the current govt

Saim Sadiqs debut feature, 'Joyland,' observes the tension within a Pakistani family suffocated by societal conventions.

* Coalition partners agree to tackle political issues in the parliament

When social media star Qandeel Baloch was strangled by her brother for unapologetically challenging Pakistan's attitudes towards women, activists fought for her murder to trigger a new era of justice

Pakistan launched a new anti-polio drive on Monday, more than a week after officials detected the third case so far this year in the country's northwestern region bordering Afghanistan. The campaign - the third one this year - is to last for five days, aiming to inoculate...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Sunday declared an emergency in view of a fire raging in the...

PESHAWAR: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) and Mohmand Chamber of Commerce and...

Karachi: President Dr Arif Alvi has asked both local and multinational private sector companies to provide maximum...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, also the incoming president of the next Conference of the Parties to be held in Egypt, says the focus will be on making sure countries...

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) Egypt, host of the next United Nations summit on climate...

CAIRO (AP) An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced a pro-democracy activist to four years in prison for disseminating false news, a defense lawyer sai...

An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced a pro-democracy activist to four years in prison for disseminating false news, a defense lawyer said. The court of misdemeanors in Cairo convicted Yahia Hussein Abdel-Hadi, a co-founder of the Civil Democratic Movement, an opposition coalition of liberal and left-leaning parties, of “deliberately disseminating false news inside and outside” Egypt, according to lawyer Khalid Ali. Similar accusations have often been used against those critical

A criminal court in Alexandria, Egypt,sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of murdering a Coptic Christian priest.

'Boy From Heaven,' Tarik Saleh's bold look inside power games to appoint Egypt's next Grand Imam, plays by familiar conspiracy movie beats.

Egypt’s religious and secular institutions both breed mistrust in Tarik Saleh’s superbly realised paranoid nightmare

Swedish/Egyptian director Tarik Saleh on depicting tension between state security and religious power in Egypt in 'Boy From Heaven.'

She was the Princess Diana of the 19th century. An impossibly glamorous Austro-Hungarian empress whose star-crossed love life and tragic end entranced the public.

Egyptian authorities have transferred a prominent political activist from a maximum-security prison where he was allegedly tortured and denied basic rights to a new correctional facility, his family said on Thursday. Alaa Abel-Fattah was transferred from Cairo's Tora prison complex to Wadi El-Natrun prison in the north of the country, where he was visited on Thursday by his family, his sister Mona Seif wrote on Twitter. The transfer came as Abdel-Fattah had been on a hunger strike for nea

CAIRO (AP) Egyptian authorities have transferred a prominent political activist from...

BAGHDAD: Iraq closed public buildings and temporarily shut airports Monday as another sandstorm – the ninth since...

A sandstorm blanketed parts of the Middle East on Monday, including Iraq, Syria and Iran, sending people to hospitals and disrupting flights in some places. It was the latest in a series of unprecedented nearly back-to-back sandstorms this year that have bewildered residents and raised alarm among experts and officials, who blame climate change and poor governmental regulations. Sandstorms are typical in late spring and summer, spurred by seasonal winds.

DAVOS: The 2022 World Cup hosted by Qatar is expected to be watched by 5 billion people around the world, FIFA...

Police say a gas cylinder explosion in the capital of the United Arab Emirates has killed two people and injured 120 others

A gas cylinder explosion in the capital of the United Arab Emirates killed two people and injured 120 others Monday, police said, hours after authorities downplayed the incident and warned the public not to share images of the aftermath. The explosion struck a restaurant just after 1 p.m. in Abu Dhabi's Khalidiya neighborhood, just a few blocks from the capital's beachfront corniche. Initially, Abu Dhabi police vaguely referred to damage and casualties, showing pictures of glass and

The 2022 World Cup hosted by Qatar is expected to be watched by 5 billion people around the world, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Monday.

DAVOS: Qatar’s emir on Monday hit out at what he called unprecedented attacks on Qatar becoming the first Arab...

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani says international community should work to resolve forgotten and ignored conflicts.

Most stock markets in the Gulf ended lower on Monday, as investors feared that inflation and rising interest rates would hamper the global economic outlook.

All eyes are on Qatar. Whats at stake is something much larger than football: the role of sport as a driver of human rights improvements.

Major Gulf stock markets were range-bound in early trade on Monday, as investors weighed rising oil prices and a slowdown in economic growth.

/PRNewswire/ -- Investopia global investment initiative, launched by the UAE government in September 2021, initiated global talks in world markets starting...

BAGHDAD (AP) A sandstorm blanketed parts of the Middle East on Monday, including...

Iraq closed public buildings and temporarily shut airports Monday as another sandstorm -- the ninth since mid-April -- hit the country.

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Iraq closed airports and public buildings on Monday as another sandstorm -- the ninth since mid-April -- hit the country, authorities said.

An Iraqi court has postponed the trial of two European tourists charged with antiquities smuggling after their lawyers argued more information was needed about the ancient shards found in their possession

BAGHDAD (AP) An Iraqi court Sunday postponed the trial of two European tourists...

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Iraq's renowned communist poet Muzaffar al-Nawab, who faced jail time and exile in the 1960s, died Friday in an Emirati hospital aged 88, Iraqi authorities announced.

That is a refreshingly lighthearted confession to war crimes, late-night host said

Bush's gaffe drew laughs from the crowd but left critics aghast.

The former president meant to decry the 'brutal invasion' of Ukraine. Instead, he let slip something damning about a war he oversaw.

Freudian slip? While condemning Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine during a speech in Dallas, former President George W. Bush inadvertently said the name of the country he ordered an invasion of in 2003 under false pretenses. During a speech at Southern Methodist University Wednesday, the two-term Republican blasted Putin for running rigged elections and imprisoning political opponents. “The ...

The United Nations Refugee Agency on Monday announced that for the first time more than 100 million people across the world have been displaced from their homes. The number of refugees, who are primarily driven out of their homes and living situations by war, conflict and disasters, now represents more than 1 percent of the…

The Greek coastguard prevents five sail boats and four dinghies from crossing into its territorial waters from Turkey.

The five-year investigation was mired in controversy for the mass wiretapping of charity workers, lawyers and journalists.

Greece said on Monday it had prevented around 600 migrants from crossing the Aegean Sea into its territorial waters from neighbouring Turkey, in the largest attempted entry this year.

According to a Daily Beast review of court transcripts in a lawsuit a protester has brought against Donald Trump, his former attorney Michael Cohen explained in detail a conversation he overheard between the former president and his head of security that contradicts what Trump previously testified u...

The number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution has crossed the milestone of 100 million for the first time on record, propelled by the war in Ukraine and other deadly conflicts, The U.N. refugee agency said Monday.

Last week, 685 people arrived over five days.

The figures combine refugees, asylum-seekers, and nearly 60 million people displaced inside their own countries.

The number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution has crossed the milestone of 100 million for the first time on record, propelled by the war in Ukraine and other deadly conflicts, The U.N. refugee agency said Monday. “One hundred million is a stark figure — sobering and alarming in equal measure," said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi. “This must serve as a wake-up call to resolve and prevent destructive c

Russia's war in Ukraine has pushed the number of forcibly displaced people around the world above 100 million for the first time ever, the United Nations said Monday.

Russia's war in Ukraine has pushed the number of forcibly displaced people around the world above100million for the first time ever, the United Nations said Monday.

More than 100 million people have been driven from their homes around the world, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Monday, citing new data about those escaping violence, conflict, persecution and human rights violations.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised Niger long-term military and financial support to fight Islamist insurgents across West Africa, during a visit on Monday on his inaugural Africa tour.

Significant proportions of weapons and arms seized from Islamist insurgents in Niger came from West African state stockpiles, suggesting authorities are struggling to secure arms stores in the region, a report said on Monday.

Documents, imagery and witness accounts point to a heightened Russian presence in Mali, where the military government is locked in a bloody war with extremists. Profits from the Wagner Group flow back to Moscow, helping prop up Vladimir Putins government at at time of growing economic isolation over its war in Ukraine.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) A series of complex challenges, including a lack of...

A series of complex challenges, including a lack of funding and political will as well as rising insecurity linked to extremist groups al-Qaida and the Islamic State in Burkina Faso, are obstructing progress on Africas Great Green Wall, according to experts involved in the initiative

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his country is interested in a major gas exploitation project in Senegal as he began a three-nation visit to Africa on Sunday that also is focused on the geopolitical consequences of the war in Ukraine. Senegal is believed to have significant deposits of natural gas along…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz began a three-nation trip to Africa on Sunday, a visit that is expected to include talks with African leaders about the geopolitical consequences of the war in Ukraine.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is kicking off a three-nation trip to Africa that will include stops in Senegal, Niger and South Africa

Russia's impact on energy and food prices and security will provide the backdrop to Olaf Scholz's first trip to Africa as German Chancellor, a three-day tour of Senegal, Niger and South Africa kicking off on Sunday.

Recent attacks on Togo show that West African states must act quickly and decisively to stop the spread of violent extremism.

Undiplomatic remarks from Jean-Yves Le Drian follow war of words between nations over abandoned submarine deal

Armed men have kidnapped an Italian couple and their child as well as a Togolese national in southeastern Mali, a local official and a Malian security source told AFP Friday.