Tel Aviv , December 2: "We are the sword of Mohammed Deif," declared Roda Abu Agamiya, referring to Hamas' shadowy terror chief in the Gaza Strip. Abu Agamiya is one of more than 200 Palestinian terrorists Israel has released over the last week as part of the ceasefire deal with...
Islamabad , December 2: Barrister Gohar Ali Khan emerged as the uncontested choice for the new chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), succeeding the imprisoned former prime minister, Imran Khan. The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) conducted the intra-party elections held on the directives of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) with voters...
Colombo , December 2: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with President of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickeremesinghe, during the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Expo City, Dubai. "A meeting took place between President @RW_UNP and Indian Prime Minister @narendramodi yesterday (01). The encounter occurred during the United Nations Climate...
Karachi , December 2: In Karachi's Garden area, a family witnessed a robbery of significant proportions, with two newly-hired female housemaids making off with jewellery worth Pakistan Rupee (PKR) 4 million along with a sum of cash. The incident, documented by CCTV footage, unfolded in a residence located in Doli...
Tibetans who want to get public sector jobs must comply with a harsh Chinese rule requiring them to denounce the Dalai Lama, the leader of Tibetan Buddhism. The move would seem to violate China’s constitution, which officially protects the freedom of religion. An official directive from Beijing released this month advertised...
The US Congress members chairing the Congressional-Executive Commission on China are condemning violent attacks by pro-China demonstrators against Tibetans and others who protested Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit this month to the United States. Rep. Chris Smith, R-NJ, and Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., chair and co-chair of the commission, said...
TAIPEI: Taiwan's health ministry on Thursday urged the elderly, very young and those with poor immunity to avoid travel to China due to the recent increase in respiratory illnesses there, a move some experts said was ineffective to manage public health risks. The World Health Organization (WHO) last week requested...
The United States plans to sign a memorandum of understanding to cooperate with South Korea and Japan in the fight against false propaganda and disinformation. It will be the first such agreement that Washington signs with its Asian allies, and it comes as U.S. officials and lawmakers accuse the People's...
Meta has removed nearly 4,800 fake accounts that were part of a China-based influence campaign aimed at spreading polarising content about United States politics ahead of the 2024 presidential election, the tech giant has announced. The influence operation was one of two China-based campaigns detected by Meta, which owns Facebook...
TAIPEI: Taiwan again reported Chinese warplanes and warships around the island on Thursday (Nov 30), including aircraft crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait, as Beijing keeps up its military activities ahead of Taiwan's January election. Democratically governed Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has complained...