Category: International News

Mexico crowns transgender beauty queen in bid for acceptance

Mexico City, Jul 29: The contestants in the beauty pageant sashayed in red bathing suits, paraded across the stage in evening gowns with plunging necklines and answered questions about climate change and human rights. After four hours, and a brief protest onstage by a losing contestant, a brunette from […]

7 killed in rain-related incidents in Pak

Peshawar, Jul 29: At least seven persons, including four children and a woman, were killed in separate incidents after incessant rain lashed parts of Pakistan, authorities said. In Pakistan’s northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, five persons, including two children and a woman were killed on Sunday. Two were killed in Shangrila […]

Seoul repatriates three North Korean fishermen

Seoul, Jul 29: Seoul sent three North Koreans who crossed the maritime border in a fishing boat back home on Monday after they said they wanted to return, the Unification ministry said. “All of the three crew members, as well as the wooden vessel, will be returned to the […]

Iran’s Rouhani seeks closer UK ties with Johnson

Vienna, Jul 29: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has penned an open letter to Britain’s new prime minister, saying he hopes the countries’ diplomatic ties will be stronger under Boris Johnson’s leadership. In the letter published Sunday on Rouhani’s website, the Iranian president congratulated Johnson on becoming prime minister Wednesday. […]

Trump’s offer of mediation on Kashmir more than Pak’s expectations: Qureshi

Islamabad, Jul 28: US President Donald Trump’s offer of mediation on Kashmir during Prime Minister Imran Khan’s first visit to Washington was “more than Pakistan’s expectations”, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said. Talking to a private news channel, Qureshi also said that Prime Minister Khan “made the US […]

Indian opposition wants Modi to clarify Trump Kashmir claim

NEW DELHI — Indian opposition leaders on Tuesday angrily demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi clarify his position in Parliament about President Donald Trump mediating in India’s long-running dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar read out a statement in the upper house of Parliament […]

All crew on British-flagged tanker in good health: Iranian embassy in India

NEW DELHI/KOCHI – All crew members of a British-flagged tanker that Iran seized on Friday are safe and still on the vessel, the Iranian embassy in India said on Monday. The seizure of the Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz – the world’s most important waterway for […]

Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan leaves for US for first meeting with President Trump

Islamabad, Jul 20: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday left for his maiden trip to the US to have face-to-face talks with President Donald Trump and reboot bilateral relations that were hit after he publicly criticised Islamabad, cancelled military aid and asked it to do more to fight […]

World court orders review of Pakistan death sentence for Kulbhushan Jadhav

THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday ordered Pakistan to review the death penalty given in 2017 to former Indian navy commander Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav who was convicted of being a spy, a document published on the court’s website showed. The document, which appeared […]

ICJ to deliver verdict in Kulbhushan Jadhav case

The Hague, Jul 17: The International Court of Justice will deliver on Wednesday its verdict in a case relating to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, whose death sentence by a Pakistani military court based on an “extracted confession” has been questioned by India. Jadhav, 49, a retired Indian Navy officer, […]

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