WASHINGTON: The US election was plunged into chaos early Wednesday as President Donald Trump prematurely declared victory and sought Supreme Court intervention to stop vote-counting — even as his Democratic rival Joe Biden voiced confidence in his own chances. In a divisive election cast under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed more […]
.ÏVIENNA: A mass shooting at several locations in the Austrian capital Vienna left at least two people dead and more than a dozen injured, shattering the city’s calm atmosphere and sending everyone into a panic. As music lovers enjoyed an opera and young people in bars raised a final glass together before a new coronavirus […]
0Rescuers in Izmir pull the girl out alive from the rubble, as the death toll in the earthquake crossed 100. A three-year-old girl was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building 91 hours after a powerful earthquake hit western Turkey, as the death toll rose to 100 on Tuesday, said the local mayor. “We […]
Afghanistan’s interior ministry said Monday that at least 19 people were killed and 22 injured after a six-hour-long gun battle between Afghan security forces and armed assailants at Kabul University came to an end. The ministry said that three people were involved in the attack, among them, two were killed during an exchange of fire, […]
Two men allegedly subjected a teenage girl to gang-rape for four months near a Badin village, police said, with the incident coming to light after the victim got pregnant. According to the police, the incident took place in the Goth Mohib Dal area near Badin. The 17-year-old girl was unable to tell her parents as […]
Pakistan on Saturday categorically rejected Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s insinuation of Pakistan’s involvement in Pulwama attack by alluding to recent remarks made by Science and Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry in the National Assembly. “This is a brazen attempt to twist the remarks of the federal minister, who was referring to the befitting response given […]
The late launch of new 5G phones caused Apple Inc’s AAPL.O customers to put off buying new devices, leading the company on Thursday to report the steepest quarterly drop in iPhone sales in two years. Apple fell over 5% at one point in after-hours trade, wiping $100 billion from its stock market value. Even as […]
ISLAMABAD: The Senate was informed on Thursday that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist convicted by a US court on the charge of shooting at army and FBI officers while in custody in Afghanistan, has finally signed a mercy petition. Adviser to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan said during the question hour […]
Police said three people were confirmed to have died and several injured in the knife attack at French church. A police source said a woman was decapitated. French politician Marine Le Pen also spoke of a decapitation having occurred in the attack. A source at the scene said police armed with automatic weapons had put […]
PM calls for Muslim unity to end attacks on Islam, Prophet PBUH. Prime Minister Imran Khan has raised the issue of the publication of blasphemous caricatures on the international level and asked the leaders of the Muslim states to act collectively for countering the Islamophobia; attacks on Islam and Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) […]
