Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will undertake an official visit to Qatar from February 23 to 24 at the invitation of Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Foreign Office said on Sunday. The prime minister will be accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, along with other ministers and senior officials. […]
A bus in Nepal skidded off a mountain road and plunged into an icy river on Monday, killing at least 19 people, according to police sources. The bus, en route from the tourist city of Pokhara to the capital city Kathmandu, fell more than 200 metres (655 feet) into the Trishuli River in Dhading district […]
Denmark and its territory, Greenland, on Sunday rejected Donald Trump’s offer to send a naval hospital ship to the Arctic island coveted by the US leader. A day earlier, Trump said he was sending “a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care […]
By day, 27-year-old Rizwan Pathan hauls heavy slabs of marble in a factory, earning barely enough to keep his children fed. By night, despite aching limbs and exhaustion, he heads to the sports ground to train. “I work so my children don’t sleep hungry,” he says. “And I train so the sportsman inside me doesn’t […]
Strasbourg beat Lyon 3-1 to end the visitors’ seven-match winning streak in Ligue 1 on Sunday, a result that dampens their outside shot at the title. Lyon had won 13 consecutive games in all competitions but failed to equal the club record set in 2006. Paulo Fonseca’s side remain third on 45 points and nine […]
Children across parts of the US Northeast will stay home on Monday as a powerful winter storm forced school closures and pushed offices and transit systems onto emergency schedules, with officials across the region warning of heavy snow, strong winds, and dangerous travel conditions. The storm has already snarled travel along the East Coast from […]
South Korea has asked the Russian embassy in Seoul to take down a large banner reading “Victory will be ours”, its foreign ministry said, just ahead of this week’s fourth anniversary of the start of the war in Ukraine. The ministry said in a statement on Sunday that it had conveyed its concerns to the […]
One of Mexico’s most notorious drug lords, Nemesio Oseguera, or “El Mencho,” was killed in a military raid on Sunday, sparking widespread retaliatory violence. President Claudia Sheinbaum has been under mounting pressure from Washington to intensify her offensive against drug cartels blamed for producing and smuggling drugs, particularly the synthetic opioid fentanyl, across the border […]
China is making a “full assessment” of the United States Supreme Court’s tariff ruling and has urged Washington to lift “unilateral tariff measures” on its trading partners, warning that fighting between the two countries is “harmful”. The comments from China’s Commerce Ministry on Monday came days after the highest US court dealt President Donald Trump […]