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Peshawar: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf supporters will march towards Islamabad on September 27 if "justice" is not provided to the party's founding chairman and incarcerated former prime minister, Imran Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Chief Minister Suhail Afridi has announced. Afridi made the announcement while addressing a large...

Cape Canaveral: A SpaceX rocket that launched a pair of lunar landers undoubtedly slammed into the moon as predicted Wednesday after drifting off course for the past year, scientists reported. Although the 5,400-mph (8,700-kph) collision had yet to be officially confirmed, space tracking experts said...

New Delhi: Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday declared that she is determined to return home in December, pledging to face the risk of arrest or a death sentence, in order to "restore democracy and justice" to the country. Hasina said this at a...

New Delhi: India Wednesday categorically rejected Pakistan's "futile attempts" to observe August 5 as 'Youm-e-Istehsal' or 'Day of Exploitation' to oppose the scrapping of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir seven years ago. External affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said Pakistan's attempts to interfere...

Kyiv: Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region killed at least 15 people and wounded 42 others overnight into Wednesday, Ukraine's state emergency service said. The attack was the latest in a series of large-scale Russian ballistic missile strikes that have...

Colombo: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri Wednesday arrived in Colombo on a day-long official visit aimed at further strengthening the longstanding partnership between the two countries. He was received at the airport by the Indian High Commissioner in Colombo, Santosh Jha, and senior officials from the...

New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Tuesday condemned the attack on the Indian flagged commercial vessel, MSV Faize Noore Oliya, that sank in the Red Sea, off the coast of Yemen. The Ministry confirmed that all 13 Indian nationals have been rescued and...

Washington: US President Donald Trump said Tuesday (US local time) that Iran will be "hit very hard" if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened "very soon." In an interview with Fox News, Trump said the United States is "having very good discussions" with Iran....

Aden (Yemen): An India-flagged cargo vessel sank after being attacked by an explosives-laden boat in the Red Sea off Yemen's western coast. Yemeni forces rescued 14 crew members; 13 of them are Indian sailors, while one is from Yemen, Xinhua News Agency reported The government-affiliated...

Washington: Trump administration has informed Congress that it intends to close five smaller US embassies, consulates and other diplomatic missions in Africa, Asia and the Western Hemisphere, even as it steams ahead with plans to reopen shuttered posts in Libya and Syria and has reopened...