International

Xinhua Beijing: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan on Sunday, according to the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be…

Ishtiaq Ahmed London: The 6th Annual “British Beacon Mosque Awards” were held in Oldham, Lancashire. It is an initiative of the British-based Muslim organisation ‘Faith Associates’. The brochure that accompanied the awards event states,…

AFP/APP Dubai: An Israeli-owned cargo ship was damaged in a suspected drone attack by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the Indian Ocean, a US defense official said on Saturday. "We are aware of reports that there was a…

Ishtiaq Ahmed London: We are into the second day of the temporary four-day pause in the war between Israel and Palestine in Gaza. Qatar mediated the temporary pause. Part of this fragile truce deal is for Hamas to release 50 held Israeli…

AFP/APP Gaza: A four-day truce in the Israel-Hamas war began on Friday, with hostages set to be released in exchange for prisoners in the first major reprieve during seven weeks of a war that has claimed thousands of lives. The two…

Xinhua/APP Hong Kong: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 jolted the Mariana Islands on Friday, the US Geological Survey said. The epicentre, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 20.31 degrees north latitude…

Xinhua/APP Berlin: The highly contagious H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected on three poultry farms in Germany, according to local authorities, leading to the culling of tens of thousands of animals. At the most severely…

AFP/APP Sydney: A magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck northern Vanuatu on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said, with authorities warning that "small tsunami waves" had been picked up by ocean monitoring equipment. The quake had…

AFP/APP New York: New York State sued PepsiCo on Wednesday, pointing to the soda giant's plastic waste as a scourge of waterways and blasting the company's "misleading" statements on the environment. The civil suit, filed by New York…

AFP/APP Nairobi: Tens of thousands of people across Kenya have been affected by heavy rainfall, flooding, and landslides that have also disrupted cargo operations at the strategic Port of Mombasa, officials said. The Horn of Africa…