Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Doha on Sunday for a two-day official visit. He will attend the fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries there (LDCs).
According to Iranian news agencies and social media footage, worried parents protested on Saturday in Tehran, the country’s capital, and other towns in response to a wave of suspected poison attacks that have afflicted schoolgirls in dozens of schools.
UNITED NATION: During the 67th Session of the UN Committee on the Status of Women, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will travel to New York for a four-day visit. At that time, he will preside over a conference on “Women in Islam” (CSW)
UKRAINE: After the deadliest fight of the war, Russian artillery hammered the final exits from Bakhmut on Friday in an effort to encircle the besieged Ukrainian city and push Moscow closer to its first significant victory in half a year.
The Global Soft Power Index 2023, which was issued on Thursday, places the UAE among the top 10 soft power superpowers in the world for the first time.
WASHINGTON: According to the US State Department, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s demand that a Palestinian hamlet be “erased” amounted to inciting violence, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must publicly denounce it.
India imposed by far the most internet shutdowns in the world in 2022, according to internet advocacy monitor Access Now, as the country topped the list for the fifth year in a row.
The health minister reported “minor poison” attacks on hundreds of Iranian girls in various schools during the past few months. Some MPs speculated that the attacks may have been the work of religious organisations opposed to females’ education.
At least 26 people were killed and another 85 injured after a collision between two trains caused a derailment near the Greek city of Larissa late Tuesday night, authorities said.
The coffins of 65 victims of a devastating migrant shipwreck off Italy’s southern coast were laid out Tuesday in a local sports hall, five of them small and white, containing the bodies of the youngest children that died.
Pressure is mounting on Ukrainian forces as fighting for the eastern frontline city of Bakhmut is getting ever more brutal with Russia losing hundreds of troops a day, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday.
KABUL: Early on Tuesday morning, a military operation in Kabul resulted in the death of the intelligence and military chief of the militant organisation known as Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP).
