Global warming could defeat the poverty fight WASHINGTON: Climate change could undermine efforts to defeat extreme poverty around the globe, the World Bank warned Sunday. In a new report on the impact of global warming, the bank said sharp temperature … read more
Tehran: Iran has condemned Charlie Hebdo’s new issue as “provocative” and says the new cartoon by the weekly is an insult to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham says that Wednesday’s publication of the paper featuring … read more
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday visited 10 Downing Street and met with British Prime Minister David Cameron. In a series of tweets, ISPR spokesman Asim Bajwa said the COAS raised issue of action against … read more
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday beheaded a convicted Pakistani drug trafficker and one of its own citizens who killed a soldier. Mahmoud Massih Iqbal Massih was executed in Qatif near the Gulf coast for heroin trafficking, the Saudi interior ministry … read more
PANGKALAN BUN, INDONESIA: A Singaporean navy ship on Wednesday located the main body of the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea late last month, raising hopes that bodies of most of the 162 victims will now be found. … read more