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Indian officials called for the swift implementation of a proposed regional energy hub in Sri Lanka at the start of bilateral talks in Colombo on Sunday. The planned oil hub in the northeastern port of Trincomalee featured in a meeting with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, India's vi...
Posted on 19 April 2026 | 4:28 pm
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Islamabad's Red Zone was closed for traffic as the capital braces to welcome foreign delegations, police said on Sunday, with alternate traffic plans issued to facilitate citizens. "Due to the arrival of foreign delegations in Islamabad, Red Zone and Extended Red Zone will remain completely clos...
Posted on 19 April 2026 | 3:51 pm
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Islamabad appeared all set on Sunday to host a second round of talks between the US and Iran, with President Donald Trump announcing that representatives from Washington were heading to Islamabad and they would be "there tomorrow evening for negotiations". The US president made the announcement ...
Posted on 19 April 2026 | 3:49 pm
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Police in Austria said late on Saturday that rat poison was found inside a jar of HiPP baby food, following a recall of the product from more than 1,000 SPAR supermarkets in the country over safety fears. Police in Burgenland, Austria, said in a statement that a sample from one of the 190-gram jars ...
Posted on 19 April 2026 | 9:37 am
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North Korea fired ballistic missiles into the sea on Sunday, accelerating its missile launches amid Iran war tensions and talk of possible meetings with the US and South Korea. Pyongyang's intense missile activity — this was the fourth such launch this month and the seventh of the year — is me...
Posted on 19 April 2026 | 6:17 am
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DUBLIN: Dubai police have arrested alleged Irish crime gang boss Daniel Kinahan on charges of organised criminal activity, a law-enforcement source said on Saturday. Dubai police said in a statement on Friday that they had "arrested an Irish fugitive for his alleged role in an organised criminal g...
Posted on 19 April 2026 | 5:08 am
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MILAN: Far-right leaders from Europe gathered in Milan on Saturday for a rally attended by thousands against irregular immigration and Brussels bureaucracy, the first since the electoral defeat of nationalist Viktor Orban in Hungary. Supporters of the Patriots for Europe party, the third-largest blo...
Posted on 19 April 2026 | 4:12 am
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• Hezbollah denies allegation, calls for 'caution in making judgements'• Macron urges Beirut to 'guarantee security' of UNIFIL peacekeepers PARIS / BEIRUT: A French soldier was killed and three others wounded in an attack on Saturday on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon that appeared to have be...
Posted on 19 April 2026 | 2:42 am
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BERLIN: Thousands of people demonstrated across Germany on Saturday, urging a faster shift to renewable energy and accusing conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz's coalition of putting the brakes on the transition. In Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg and Munich, crowds took to the streets, waving...
Posted on 19 April 2026 | 2:38 am
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WASHINGTON: At least 17 immigrants have died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody from January 2026 through early April, according to ICE. That follows 31 deaths last year, a two-decade high. Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt of Cuba died on April 12 at a federal detention centre in M...
Posted on 19 April 2026 | 2:09 am
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BARCELONA: Leftist leaders from around the globe met in Barcelona on Saturday to rally against the threat to democracy from the far right, with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum displaying closer ties. The gathering comes as democratic institutions and val...
Posted on 19 April 2026 | 2:09 am
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• IAEA's new initiative aims to boost early detection, monitoring and sustainable management • Core objective is to boost collaboration among scientists, institutes, plant protection authorities ISLAMABAD: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced a new research project th...
Posted on 19 April 2026 | 2:04 am
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US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (left) and media personality Joe Rogan (centre) look on as President Donald Trump shakes hands with W. Bryan Hubbard, CEO of Americans for Ibogaine, during an executive order signing ceremony at the Oval Office.—AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald ...
Posted on 19 April 2026 | 1:52 am
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Six people were killed in Kyiv on Saturday after a gunman opened fire and took hostages at a supermarket in the Ukrainian capital before being killed during an arrest attempt, officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that at least 14 people were hospitalised with wounds and trauma...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 7:00 pm
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Twelve countries, including Pakistan, on Saturday expressed "their strongest condemnation" at Israel's announcement of appointing a diplomatic representative to Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland, according to a joint statement shared by the Foreign Office (FO). The statement was issue...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 6:56 pm
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Pope Leo sought to downplay his feud with US President Donald Trump on Saturday, saying reporting about comments he has made so far during his Africa tour "has not been accurate in all its aspects". Speaking to reporters in English aboard his flight to Angola for the third leg of his ambitious 1...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 5:32 pm
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New Delhi on Saturday summoned Iran's ambassador to convey the country's "deep concern" after two Indian-flagged vessels were shot at near the Strait of Hormuz, India's foreign ministry said. In a statement, India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Iran's Ambassador to India Dr ...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 5:03 pm
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A handful of oil and gas tankers crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday during a brief reopening, tracking data showed, but others retreated and two were reportedly attacked as Iran closed the route again. The toing and froing over the strait cast doubt on US President Donald Trump's optimism th...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 2:20 pm
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Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Saturday she had "no regrets" about symbolically handing over her Nobel Peace Prize to US President Donald Trump back in January. "There is a leader in the world, a head of state in the world who risked the lives of his country's c...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 1:19 pm
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif discussed efforts to strengthen relations with brotherly countries, Pakistan's role in promoting regional peace, and the evolving regional and global situation during his tri-nation tour, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said on Saturday. The PMO statement was issu...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 12:33 pm
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United States President Donald Trump said on Saturday that his administration's review of UFO-related material uncovered a number of interesting documents, adding that an initial tranche of records is expected to be released soon. "We found many very interesting documents, I must say, and the fi...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 10:38 am
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Turkiye's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday accused Israel of using security as a pretext to acquire "more land". "Israel is not after its own security. Israel is after more land. Security is being used by the Netanyahu government as an excuse to occupy more land," Fidan told the An...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 9:50 am
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei visited US officials at the White House on Friday, where they struck a different tone from the recent dispute between the United States' government and the AI startup. US media reported Amodei met with Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump's chief of staff, as well as US...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 9:46 am
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Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Asim Munir and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi have concluded a three-day official visit to Iran, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Saturday. The discussions focused on "bringing sustainable peace to the...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 9:31 am
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The Trump administration on Saturday renewed a waiver allowing countries to buy sanctioned Russian oil at sea for about a month, even as lawmakers accused the government of going easy on Moscow as its war on Ukraine grinds on. The United States Treasury Department's waiver lets countries purchase ...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 9:01 am
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Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb held a "productive" meeting with officials of the United States Department of the Treasury, with both sides discussing avenues for cooperation in the mineral and energy sectors, the finance ministry said on Saturday. Aurangzeb arrived in the United States on M...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 7:24 am
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GENEVA: Over 38,000 women and girls were killed in Gaza Strip by the end of last year, the UN estimated Friday, amounting to over half of the 71,000 deaths recorded by the territory's health ministry since Oct 2023. "Between Oct 2023 and Dec 2025, more than 38,000 women and girls were killed in ...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 5:08 am
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• Trump expects deal to be finalised 'in a day or two'• Calls PM, army chief 'fantastic people'• Asserts Lebanon conflict separate from Hormuz deal; Iran insists Hormuz opening linked to Lebanon ceasefire• Dar says Islamabad wants 'permanent' end to war, urges both sides to show ...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 2:16 am
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A Rohingya refugee carries a child, wearing a hat, while walking along a road inside a refugee camp at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.—Reuters GENEVA: Nearly 900 Rohingya refugees were reported missing or dead in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal last year, making it the deadliest year on record f...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 1:05 am
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MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Friday that European countries were becoming more involved in the war in Ukraine, referencing a warning from Russia's Defence Ministry about drone production sites across the continent and in Britain. The Defence Ministry on Wednesday warned against European plans to s...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 1:05 am