PTI founder Imran Khan has denied party’s involvement in social media rhetoric against army martyrs. During an informal exchange with journalists at the £190 million reference hearing in Adiala Jail, Imran Khan emphasized that his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), was

Australia government is set to implement tighter visa rules, especially for international students, from this week. As the country hits a record migration level - the country's population surged by 2.5 per cent between September 2022 to September 2023 largely due to an increase in

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan reiterated Türkiye's determination to become a member of the European Union, as he said the country "sees its future in Europe." Speaking in a joint news conference with his Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel Albares in Ankara, Fidan said

Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto has been elected president of the world’s third-biggest democracy, the elections commission said Wednesday, beating two rivals who have vowed to file legal complaints about the vote. The fiery defense minister and his vice presidential running

ISIS India head and one of his associates were arrested in Assam’s Dhubri district on Wednesday after they crossed over from Bangladesh, police said. In a statement, Assam Police chief public relations officer Pranabjyoti Goswami said they were apprehended from Dharmasala area by

An auction of the villa of Myanmar's detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi has failed after no bids were made for it. A court had ordered its sale in January following a long-running ownership dispute with her brother. Lawyers for Ms Suu Kyi, who has been detained since her

Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar says he is stepping down as the leader of the governing Fine Gael party. In the surprise announcement on Wednesday, Varadkar said he would also relinquish his role as prime minister as soon as a successor is chosen. “I am resigning

Dozens of Rohingya refugees are feared to have drowned after a wooden boat with an estimated 150 people on board capsized off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province. The boat is thought to have run into trouble some 19km (12 miles) from the beach of Kuala Bubon on the west coast

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells US Republican senators Israel will continue the war to defeat Hamas, with one senator saying, “He’s going to do what he said he’s going to do. He’s going to finish it”. Israel’s raid on al-Shifa Hospital in

Fourteen people were killed and 37 others injured after a bus crashed inside an expressway tunnel in northern China, state media reported Wednesday. The accident occurred shortly after 2:30 pm local time (0630 GMT) Tuesday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing local authorities in

Ordinarily during the holy month of Ramadan, entrepreneur Putra Kelana breaks fast with his family and friends at several different food outlets across his city in North Sumatra. But this year, one outlet will not be on the menu: McDonald’s. Kelana has been boycotting the fast

Hong Kong’s opposition-free legislature has unanimously passed new homegrown security legislation, making treason, insurrection and sabotage punishable by up to life in prison, and rejecting Western criticism that the law would further restrict the city’s freedoms.

A federal appeals court has frozen Texas' controversial immigration law, one of the toughest laws of its kind enacted by a US state in modern times. The decision came just hours after the Supreme Court allowed the measure, SB4, to take effect pending an appeal. The measure would

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a successful test of a solid-fuel engine for a "new-type intermediate-range hypersonic missile", Pyongyang's state media said Wednesday. The test was carried out on Tuesday by the North's Missile Administration at the Sohae

Israeli raids hit warehouses storing weapons for the Lebanese Hezbollah group in Syria Tuesday, a war monitor said, as a Syrian military source said air defenses had intercepted several missiles. Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes in Syria since civil war broke out in 2011,

Flooding, landslides and torrential rains have killed at least 23 people in Papua New Guinea's Highlands region, where homes have been damaged and roads washed away. Acting Director for the National Disaster Centre, Lusete Man said a mother and child were among the dead as bad

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen live-fire drills involving “newly-equipped super-large” multiple rocket launchers, a day after South Korea and Japan reported the country’s launch of several short-range ballistic missiles, its first such test in about two

Donald Trump cannot find a private company to guarantee the $464m (£365m) he has been ordered to pay in a New York civil fraud case. The former president must either pay the full amount in cash or secure a bond in order to continue his appeal. Mr Trump said that securing a

Israeli air attacks on two houses and an apartment in Rafah have killed at least 14 people and injured several more, Wafa news agency reports. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for immediate action to prevent famine in northern Gaza, a disaster that he described as

Israel has killed more than 13,000 children in Gaza since October 7 while others are suffering from severe malnutrition and do not “even have the energy to cry”, says the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). “Thousands more have been injured or we