The Pakistani government yesterday challenged a Supreme Court order to move jailed former prime minister Imran Khan to a private hospital, a petition filed with the court showed.

Iran’s armed forces yesterday warned Gulf countries against assisting the US, hours after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced it was severing economic ties with Tehran following new attacks on shipping.

A medical trip to India ended in tragedy when a hotel fire in central Kolkata early yesterday claimed the lives of four members of a family from Kushtia, leaving a child back home orphaned.

15 wounded as police officers among those killed

Search and rescue operations continue at Zamboye mining site

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War between Iran and the United States broke out on February 28 after US-Israeli attacks on the Islamic republic, which retaliated with missile and drone strikes including on US bases across the region.

Decades of experience suggest that credit alone has not delivered the transformation to economic independence

The temporary reprieve from Trump's 50-percent duties would last three days, the US leader said in a social media post.

Washington also slapped sanctions on ICC Senior Trial Lawyer Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal in the Trump administration's latest salvo against The Hague-based court.

Five people were killed after a roof and a wall at a village home collapsed during a dinner party in China's southwestern Sichuan province from accumulated rainwater, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

US President says naval blockade remains in force

US President Donald Trump said Monday that Kim Jong Un had responded to his recent overtures, a day after he scaled back military drills with South Korea and praised his relationship with the North Korean leader.

A former Sri Lankan minister was arrested yesterday for allegedly aiding the theft of a centuries-old sacred rock from the palace of the island’s last Sinhala king, an anti-corruption body said.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is moving faster than any previous epidemic of the disease and risks spreading to more countries, the head of the World Health Organization warned yesterday.

China’s President Xi Jinping yesterday expressed support for Latin American countries’ “independence and self-reliance” as he met with his Ecuadoran counterpart Daniel Noboa in Beijing, state media reported.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his North Korean counterpart that their countries were working to establish a “new and righteous world order”, after Pyongyang helped Moscow to drive Ukrainian forces from a Russian region last year.

Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said yesterday that the strategic Strait of Hormuz will not be opened until the United States meets Tehran’s demands, including lifting a naval blockade.

Only four in 10 healthcare facilities worldwide meet basic sanitation standards for accessible and usable toilets, the United Nations said Tuesday, while 11 percent have no sanitation services at all

Justice Shahid Waheed said 73-year-old Khan, who has been in jail since 2023 on corruption charges, will be shifted in the next two days to Shifa International hospital in the capital Islamabad