A man who killed four people, then committed suicide in a New York skyscraper, may have been targeting the NFL offices there because he blamed the American football league for brain injuries he said he suffered, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday. The revelation that the killer, identified as 27-year-old Shane Tamura, carried a note referring […]
German double Olympic biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier was caught in a rockfall in Pakistan and rescuers have not found “signs of life” at the accident site, her team said Tuesday. The accident happened Monday while Dahlmeier was climbing with a partner on Laila Peak, a mountain of over 6,000 metres (19,700 feet) in the Karakoram […]
Washington is ramping up pressure on Beirut to swiftly issue a formal cabinet decision committing to disarm Hezbollah before talks can resume on a halt to Israel’s military operations in Lebanon, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Without a public commitment from Lebanese ministers, the US will no longer dispatch US envoy Thomas […]
A ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia held on Tuesday and military commanders from both sides met to discuss measures to maintain the truce, as some residents along the disputed frontier trickled back home after five days of intense fighting. Thai and Cambodian leaders met in Malaysia on Monday and agreed to a ceasefire to halt […]
Russian air strikes on southeastern Ukraine killed at least 19 people overnight, officials said on Tuesday, hours after US President Donald Trump said he would shorten a deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to make peace. Sixteen people were killed and dozens wounded when Russia bombed a prison in the front-line Zaporizhzhia region in an […]
President Donald Trump’s administration will on Tuesday move to reverse a foundational scientific determination that underpins the US government’s ability to curb climate change, Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin announced. Appearing on the right-wing podcast “Fearless,” Zeldin said: “Later today, we’re going to be making a big announcement in Indiana” about the so-called Endangerment […]
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday that every time US President Donald Trump talks about stopping the Pakistan-India war, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “wounds are reopened”. “US President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that we stopped the war. When the US president says that we stopped the Pakistan-India war, Modi’s wounds are reopened,” […]
The PTI on Tuesday dismissed as baseless reports circulating in the media that party founder Imran Khan had prohibited his two sons from travelling to Pakistan or taking part in any effort for his release. Countering the reports in a post on ‘X’, PTI Central Information Secretary Waqas Akram said the news circulating in the […]
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) appears to be increasingly under legal siege as a growing number of its lawmakers face disqualification on various charges, many arising from May 9-related cases. The wave of disqualifications has sparked concern among legal experts who argue the process may be circumventing constitutional procedures and eroding democratic norms. Though not unprecedented, […]
Pakistan is set to dispatch 200 tons of humanitarian assistance for Palestinians via chartered cargo flights routed through Jordan and Egypt, following directives from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. The prime minister has assigned Lieutenant General Inam Haider Malik, Chairman of the NDMA, to arrange two chartered aircrafteach carrying 100 tons of essential supplieswithin the next […]