The United States Congress has voted to end American involvement in the Yemen war, rebuffing the Trump administration’s support for the military campaign led by Saudi Arabia. The bill now heads to…
KUALA LUMPU: Malaysia’s new government said it will abolish the death penalty for all crimes and halt all pending executions, a rare move against capital punishment in Asia that human rights groups…
BASRA: Iraq’s most revered Shi’ite cleric called for a political shakeup in Baghdad and a halt to violence against demonstrators on Friday, after days of deadly protests tore through the main city…
JERUSALEM: Israel welcomed Saturday a US decision to end funding for the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), accusing the organisation which supports some five million Palestinians of perpetuating the Middle East conflict.…
BEIRUT: Rebels said Friday that they have reached an agreement with Russian mediators to end violence in southern Syria and surrender the crossing point with Jordan after Syrian government forces, following an…
GENEVA: The top UN human rights official called on the Trump administration on Monday to halt its “unconscionable” policy of forcibly separating children from migrant parents irregularly entering the country via Mexico.…
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka commemorated the ninth anniversary of the end of its civil war as a divided nation Saturday, with minority Tamils calling for an international investigation into alleged wartime atrocities and…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi has called for mechanisms to independently investigate and verify reports emerging from conflict situations where sexual violence occurred. Addressing an open debate…
TRUJILLO: Pope Francis on Saturday urged Latin America’s faithful to fight rampant violent crime against women including murder while holding mass in Trujillo. “I wish to invite you to combat a plague…
SAN FRANCISCO: A US judge blocked President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday from ending a programme that shielded from deportation children brought to the United States illegally by their parents. Trump decided…
TEL AVIV: The IDF Prosecution and Ahed Tamimi, the 16-year-old Palestinian girl who was videotaped slapping Israelis soldiers, continued the on-going battle on Monday over whether she will remain in prison until…
Pakistan is targeting the fastest growth in more than a decade, proposing cutting taxes to boost exports and support farmers in its spending plan as it wraps up a three-year, $6.6 billion…
Speakers want lawmakers to amend child marriage laws Child marriage should be prohibited and the legal age of marriage should be raised from 16 to 18, said experts in a…
The Human Rights Commission Pakistan (HRCP) called upon Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to immediately launch a drive to put an end to the enforced disappearance of citizens and to finish the impunity…
A crippling arms race between Pakistan and India must “come to an end” and the two rivals should settle their conflict over Kashmir, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told The Daily Telegraph on…
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf has said no timeline could be provided to end drone attacks. Briefing the newsmen in Washington, Harf said the US had made significant progress against core al…
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reiterated Pakistan’s demand for an immediate end to controversial US drone strikes in Pakistan. According to sources, he expressed these views in a meeting with US Ambassador…
