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Islamabad: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) challenged the Lahore High Court's (LHC) decision in the Supreme Court on Friday regarding the election of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hamza Shahbaz as Punjab’s chief minister, Express Tribune reported.Deputy speakers of the...

Beijing: Hong Kong will mark 25 years since the city was handed back by the British to China, BBC reported on Friday.Chinese President Xi Jinping is visiting the city on what is his first trip outside mainland China since...

Tel Aviv: Yair Lapid has taken over as Israel's interim prime minister, succeeding PM Naftali Bennett after just one year, BBC reported on Friday.Lapid, head of a centrist party, will lead the country as it heads towards elections...

Washington: Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the first Black woman justice of the US Supreme Court, at a time when its conservative majority has been flexing its muscles in major rulings, Khaleej Times reported on Friday.Jackson,...

Dhaka: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Thursday sentenced one person to the death penalty and three others to imprisonment till death for committing war crimes at Lakhai Upzila in Habiganj during the Liberation War of 1971.The three-member ICT-1...

Kyiv/Moscow: The Ukrainian officials on Thursday said that Russian forces have withdrawn from Snake Island.The island gained focus when a small group of Ukrainian troops defending the island was heard in audio recordings telling a Russian warship to...

United Nations: The United States calls for a nationwide ceasefire in Syria in line with UN Security Council resolution 2254 and hopes for progress in discussions, the US Deputy Permanent Representative Richard Mills said in a UNSC meeting."We reiterate...

Doha: Indirect negotiations between Iran and the US over Iran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers ended in Qatar without making any significant progress amid a growing crisis over the Islamic Republic’s atomic program, Khaleej Times reported on Thursday.The...

Kyiv: Ukraine has carried out its largest exchange of prisoners of war since Russia's invasion on February 24.In a Telegram message on Wednesday, Ukrainian military intelligence said, "This is the largest exchange since the start of the full-scale Russian...

Islamabad: Pakistan's Minister of the State for Petroleum Musadik Malik pledged to overcome the problem of load-shedding across the country by mid-July, as the country goes through the misery of not having a power supply for tens of hours...