The Islamabad High Court on Wednesday directed that a petition filed by former federal minister Shireen Mazari over the denial of a jail meeting with her daughter Imaan Mazari and son-in-law Hadi Ali Chattha be first submitted to the Adiala Jail superintendent. The petition concerns the alleged refusal by jail authorities to allow Mazari to […]
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, a son of Libya’s late longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi and once seen as his heir, has died, relatives said Tuesday, without providing details on the circumstances. His death was confirmed by an adviser on social media, while his cousin told Libyan media he had been killed in his home in Zintan by […]
Negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States were set to gather in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, seeking to advance fraught talks on how to end the four-year war. Several rounds of diplomacy between the sides have failed to strike a deal on ending Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II, which began when Russia […]
The US embassy in Cuba warned Americans in the country on Tuesday that there was a spike in government-sponsored protests against Washington and that some US citizens were denied entry upon arrival. It also said American citizens in Cuba should prepare for “significant disruption” from power outages and fuel shortages. Why it’s important In recent weeks, Washington has moved to […]
The United Arab Emirates urged Iran and the United States on Tuesday to use the resumption of nuclear talks this week to resolve a standoff that has led to mutual threats of air strikes, emphasizing that the Middle East does not need another war. Iran and the United States will discuss Iran’s nuclear programme on […]
The United States military shot down an Iranian drone on Tuesday that had approached the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, officials said, marking a significant escalation amid ongoing diplomatic efforts to resume nuclear talks with Tehran. The Shahed-139 drone, described by the US military as flying “with unclear intent,” was intercepted by […]
Syrian government forces entered the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli on Tuesday as part of a deal agreed last week to gradually integrate the Kurds’ forces and institutions into the state, days after entering the mixed Kurdish-Arab city of Hasakeh and the countryside around the town of Kobane. Kurdish forces have ceded swathes of territory to […]
Finland is building a new fleet of icebreakers for the US but President Donald Trump’s plans for Greenland, which he covets, and tense US-EU ties have raised concerns over the deal. The US coast guard currently operates three ageing vessels. In October, Trump and Helsinki announced that the United States coast guard will procure 11 […]
Jeffrey Epstein denied he was the “devil” and insisted he was only the lowest level of sexual predator in a video interview included in the latest release of files by US authorities. The interview, which lasts around two hours, was conducted by President Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon. It appears to be filmed in […]
The runaway success of the Switch 2 console drove up Nintendo’s net profit by more than 50 percent in the nine months to December, the Japanese video game giant said Tuesday. But a global memory chip shortage, created by massive demand for artificial intelligence hardware, threatens to push up manufacturing costs for the “Super Mario” […]