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Baltimore Police have issued an arrest warrant against 32-year-old Jason Dean Billingsley over the killing of a tech company CEO in the US city.
South African liberation hero Nelson Mandela's granddaughter Zoleka Mandela has died due to cancer.
Nations in the southeast Asian region joined the UN crime-fighting agency in Bangkok on Tuesday to launch a new strategy tackling organised crime and human trafficking.
The international community must continue to engage with Taliban leaders in Afghanistan despite deep disagreement with their approach to women’s rights and inclusive governance, the UN Special Representative for the country told the Security Council on Tuesday.
The Algerian Government must pay urgent attention to the pattern of legal restrictions and prosecutions of individuals and associations in the North African country, a UN-appointed independent expert said on Tuesday.
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) raised concerns on Tuesday over the movement of a large number of civilians to Armenia as a result of the recent hostilities in the region.
In Mali, one million children under five are at risk of malnutrition amid polio and measles outbreaks, increased armed violence and displacement, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
Underscoring the challenges that both sides are facing in deepening the economic ties, China has not agreed to further expand cooperation in areas of energy, water management, and climate change under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Baloch Voice Association (BVA) President Munir Mengal has questioned the Canadian authorities for not investigating the “mysterious” death of Human rights activist Karima Baloch.
Activists from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) recently raised slogans against Islamabad and asked authorities to vacate Kashmir and allow them to live a peaceful life.
Sindhi political activists recently gathered outside the United Nations headquarters in New York and slammed Pakistan for “targeting minorities” like Hindus and exploiting the natural resources of the Sindh province.
At least 100 people died after a fire broke out at a wedding hall in northern Iraq recently.
Beijing: China has declined to continue cooperation in the sectors of energy, water management, and climate change in the ambit of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), indicating a strain in the longstanding alliance between the two nations, The Express Tribune reported citing 11th Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) meeting for the CPEC.
Chinese authorities have jailed a prominent Uyghur academic for "endangering state security", media reports said.
Armed men have abducted a former member of tehsil council, who belongs to the Hindu community, from his house in Pakistan's Kirri Shamozai area, media reports said on Tuesday.
A large number of members belonging to the Christian community recently protested against the kidnapping of a man named Irfan Masih in Pakistan's Thatta region.
Afghanistan's consul general in Karachi has alleged that hundreds of Afghan refugees have been detained in Pakistan in the past 15 years.
Pakistani security forces have killed three terrorists during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the general area of Pakistan's Tirah region.
Bangladeshi diaspora members recently staged a protest in New York City against the atrocities committed by the Pakistan Army during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
A youth has been arrested by the Anti Terror Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh police on charges of spying for Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), an official spokesman said here on Tuesday.
In a heartfelt and poignant thread on social media, Shayan Ali, a former resident of Pakistan, shared his reasons for leaving his homeland.
In the hustle and bustle of New York’s United Nations General Assembly, where world leaders converge to discuss the globe’s most pressing issues, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau found himself standing alone, his once-dazzling smile now fading amidst the mounting pressures of international diplomacy.
Canada of late appears to be gaining a dubious reputation as a hospitable country for terrorists, gangsters, and radicals.
In the village of Bhar Singh Pura, where wheat and padi fields frame everyday life, the name Hardeep Singh Nijjar is almost forgotten. Nijjar, the slain pro-Khalistan leader, hailed from this very village but today stands as a distant memory.
In a strongly worded letter addressed to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Baloch Human Rights Council of Canada (BHRC-Canada) has raised questions about the government’s uneven approach to two distinct cases.
Russian forces in Ukraine faced new allegations of war crimes on Monday as UN-appointed independent rights experts published the findings of their latest report into Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour.
India received resounding praise from leaders across the Global South at a special event hosted by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on the sidelines of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
At least 20 people died after an explosion rocked a fuel depot in Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Palestinian authorities must strengthen fundamental legal safeguards against torture and ill-treatment, especially from the first moments of detention, a group of UN human rights experts said on Monday.
UK’s visiting professor of Economic Policy at Oxford University, Stefan Dercon, has said Pakistan's elite is even losing ground and will even need to change to kick-start the economy and remove dependence on getting dollar inflows from abroad.
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