A number of Pakistani companies have been facing a temporary ban on exports of fish and fish preparations to China since January after detection of coronavirus in their shipments. Qadri Noori Enterprise chief executive officer Manzar Alam told Dawn that around 50 companies have been

International pilgrims will be permitted to perform Umrah from August 10, according to Saudi local media reports. The kingdom reopened the Grand Mosque in Makkah to domestic Umrah pilgrims on Sunday, after the Hajj pilgrimage concluded last week. During Hajj, authorities restricted

Tunisia's president has sacked the prime minister and suspended parliament, after violent mass protests nationwide on Sunday. Anger over the government's handling of a massive recent spike in Covid cases has added to general unrest over the nation's economic and social

A Uyghur research scientist from the Chinese University in Shanghai has been confirmed to be in a detention centre. The search for him started when he suddenly went silent on social media from April. Tursunjan Nurmamat, who had lived in the United States between 2009 and 2018 and

Washington DC: US President Joe Biden and his Afghan counterpart Ashraf Ghani agreed that the Taliban's current offensive is in direct contradiction to the group's claim to support a negotiated settlement of the conflict, the White House said on Friday. "President Joseph

State-sponsored Chinese cyber actors were behind attacks targeting dozens of US oil and natural gas pipeline companies a decade ago, according to an investigative report released by President Joe Biden’s administration. The report found 23 natural gas pipeline operators were

Rodney Alcala, who was known as the “Dating Game Killer” and was convicted in the murders of six women and one girl in the 1970s, died on Saturday at a hospital in Kings County, Calif. He was 77. Mr. Alcala, who was on California’s death row, died of natural causes,

As many as 129 people have died in rain-related incidents, including multiple landslides, in Maharashtra over the last two days, while 84,452 people under the Pune division were shifted to safer places on Friday as heavy showers continued to wreak havoc in the state, officials said.

Karachi: Human rights activists have come together in Pakistan to express concern regarding the dire conditions of agriculture workers who are facing social and economic exclusion from the agriculture fields due to non-payment of their due by landlords. The activists have pointed

KUALA LUMPUR: Eighteen Chinese nationals were arrested by police yesterday for suspected involvement with an online cheating syndicate operating here. Bukti Aman Integrity and Standards Compliance Department (JIPS) director Datuk Azri Ahmad said the suspects were believed to have been

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday said there was no ban on bovine slaughter in the union territory, clarifying that the earlier order seeking to prohibit illegal killing of cows and camels on the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha was issued by the animal welfare board for

Fifteen diplomatic missions and the NATO representative in Kabul have joined hands to urge the Taliban to halt military offensives across Afghanistan, just hours after a peace meeting in Doha failed to agree on a ceasefire. A senior delegation of Afghan leaders met the Taliban’s

The daughter of Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan was briefly kidnapped and injured by unknown assailants, officials say. Silsila Alikhil was held for several hours after being seized on her way home in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Friday. Afghanistan's foreign

A man has been arrested for attempted kidnapping after a five-year-old boy was dragged into a car in broad daylight in New York City. A street camera filmed the moment the boy's mother rescued her son by pulling him through the car window. She had been walking down the street

At least 22 people were killed and six others injured in two separate incidents of landslide and house collapse in Mumbai following the heavy rains that lashed the city. As many as 11 incidents of wall house collapse and landslide, 13 short-circuit incidents, tree-falling in nine areas

Dozens of children have been killed and hundreds arbitrarily detained in Myanmar since a coup more than five months ago, UN rights experts said, as the political turmoil in the country continues amid a health emergency brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. The UN child rights

Pilgrims will begin to arrive in the Muslim holy city of Makkah on Saturday for the second downsized haj staged during the coronavirus pandemic with only fully vaccinated residents permitted to participate. Saudi Arabia seeks to repeat last year's success that saw no virus outbreak

Cuba has temporarily lifted import duties on food, medicine and other essentials following recent unrest. As of next Monday, there will be no limit on such goods brought in by travellers until the end of the year. Thousands took to the streets on Sunday in protests over food and

Nine Chinese workers were among 13 people killed on Wednesday when a blast on a bus sent it careering down a ravine in northwestern Pakistan, government and police officials said. While Pakistani officials said the nature of the blast was under investigation, the Chinese embassy in

South Africa has been rocked by violence and looting for five consecutive days, with more than 70 people killed as grievances over the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma spiralled into the worst unrest in decades. Following the jailing of the former leader, protests and mass