International

AFP/APP New York: After a US veto foiled the Palestinians' drive for full UN membership, the General Assembly is expected on Friday to grant them some additional rights in the global body -- a symbolic win that has already irked Israel.…

AFP/APP Rafah: Smoke rose from strikes on Gaza's crowded southern city of Rafah Thursday after US President Joe Biden vowed to stop supplying artillery shells and other weapons to Israel if a full-scale offensive into the city goes…

AFP/APP Dakar: A Boeing passenger plane came off the runway during takeoff in Senegal early Thursday, injuring 11 people and shutting the international airport near the capital Dakar for almost 12 hours, management said. The B737/300…

APP United Nations: Amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, a senior official from the UN human rights office, OHCHR, highlighted a substantial increase in Israeli actions against Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank. Ajith Sunghay, head…

AFP/APP Brazil: The death toll from devastating floods that have ravaged southern Brazil for days surpassed 100 on Wednesday, authorities said, as the search for dozens of missing people was interrupted by fresh storms. Some 400…

AFP/APP Washington: Democrats voted to rescue the Republican leader of the US House of Representatives on Wednesday after a right-wing lawmaker moved to topple him, plunging the already-divided party into fresh conflict ahead of…

AFP/APP Guatemala City: Washington is redoubling efforts to disrupt migration routes that lead to the United States, in particular via charter flights to Central America, top diplomat Antony Blinken said at regional talks Tuesday. The…

AFP/APP  Rafah: Hamas on Monday said it accepts a proposal for a truce in the seven-month-old war in Gaza, as Israel renewed an order for Palestinians in Rafah to evacuate ahead of a long-threatened invasion of the city. The Hamas…

AFP/APP New York: The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump's historic criminal trial threatened the former US president with jail time on Monday if he commits another violation of his gag order. Trump, 77, is charged with…

News Desk  Islamabad: After Israel's Rafah aggression, the United States (US) has stopped the supply of thousands of kits of shells to Israel, foreign media said on Tuesday.  According to the American newspaper New York Times, these…