International

New York/Washington: US President Donald Trump Friday said he will “permanently pause" migration from all “third world” countries and deport foreign nationals who are a “security risk” as his administration intensified crackdown on immigration in the wake of the killing of a National Guard member...

Islamabad: Pakistan and Russia have reaffirmed their commitment to a "forward-looking" partnership and agreed to deepen bilateral cooperation in diversified trade, energy, business-to-business engagements and social sectors like health and education. The 10th Pakistan-Russia Intergovernmental Commission (IGC) on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation, co-chaired...

Hong Kong: Firefighters battled for a second day to extinguish a blaze at a high-rise apartment complex in Hong Kong on Thursday, as the death toll rose to 94 in one of the deadliest blazes in the city's modern history. Rescuers holding flashlights were going...

New York/Washington: The Trump administration has said it will conduct a “rigorous” re-examination of all Green Cards issued to immigrants from “every country of concern” in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard service members by an Afghan national. US Citizenship and Immigration...

Beijing/Hong Kong: Firefighters battled for a second day Thursday to contain a massive inferno that ripped through seven high-rise residential towers in Hong Kong, as the death toll climbed to 75 and over 280 people remained missing in what officials described as the city's worst...

New Delhi/Aizawl:  The Enforcement Directorate Thursday conducted maiden searches along the India-Myanmar border in Mizoram, apart from some places in Assam and Gujarat, in a drugs trafficking linked money laundering case, officials said. The federal probe agency also seized Rs 35 lakh cash apart from...

Beijing/Hong Kong: The death toll in a deadly fire in multiple high-rise towers in Hong Kong has risen to 55, with 279 people still missing, Chinese official media reports said Thursday. Three men have been arrested for suspected manslaughter in the fire that broke out...

Dhaka: A Bangladesh court Thursday sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 21 years of imprisonment in three corruption cases filed by the country's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over the irregularities in the allocation of plots under the Purbachal New City Project. The latest verdict comes...

Pakistan: The swirling rumours about the fate of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan have plunged the country into a fog of fear, political tension and emotional turmoil, as his family, supporters and critics struggle to separate fact from fiction. What began as an unverified...

Washington: The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Thursday announced an immediate suspension of all immigration requests from Afghan nationals, just hours after a targeted attack, allegedly by an individual from Kabul, on National Guard members in Washington, close to the White House. In a...