The United Nations Security Council backed Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday for a second term, recommending that the 193-member General Assembly appoint him for another five years from Jan 1 of next year. Estonia’s UN Ambassador Sven Jrgenson, council president for this month, said the General Assembly was likely to meet to make the مزید پڑھیں

Two people were arrested after French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped by a man during a walkabout session with a crowd in the Drome region in southeastern France, BFM TV and RMC radio reported on Tuesday. BFM TV and RMC published a video clip, circulating on Twitter, which shows a man in a green T-Shirt, مزید پڑھیں

More than 100 lives were saved by a global sting that tricked criminals into using a messaging app which was created by the FBI to be secretly monitored by police and intelligence services. Eight hundred criminals have been arrested as part of the operation. “Not only have we heard about the number of arrests and the مزید پڑھیں

British Prime Minister (PM) Boris Johnson has appreciated Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan for starting the 10 Billion Tsumani Trees programme to deal with climate change. In his message on World Environment Day Boris Johnson said that climate change is driven once again by our actions and the way we treat the natural world. He مزید پڑھیں

A clash between Myanmar soldiers and villagers wielding homemade guns left at least three civilians dead in the south of the coup-stricken country Saturday, state media said, although one witness put the death toll at 12. Myanmar has been in chaos and its economy paralysed since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in مزید پڑھیں

After two separate accidents at coal mines in China, two people died and 12 were missing, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Saturday. The two deaths took place at a mine run by Henan Hebi Coal and Electricity Co late on Friday, prompting authorities in the central province of Henan to launch an emergency response plan, مزید پڑھیں

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that he will hope to mend Russia’s damaged relations with the US when he will hold his first summit with President Joe Biden. The face-to-face meeting in Geneva on June 16 comes amid the biggest crisis in ties between the two countries in years, with tensions high over مزید پڑھیں

One of Iran’s largest naval ships sank on Wednesday after catching fire while on a “training mission” off a strategic port near the head of the Gulf, the navy said. The British-built fleet replenishment vessel Kharg, which measured more than 200 metres (more than 650 feet) long, caught fire on Tuesday off the port of مزید پڑھیں

At least eight people were killed and nine others wounded on Thursday in two bomb blasts targeting minibuses in Kabul, according to police, in the latest attacks on commuters in the Afghan capital. Two other buses were hit earlier this week, with fears rising that further unrest lies ahead as Washington withdraws its remaining troops مزید پڑھیں

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said late on Tuesday he would announce “good news” regarding natural gas reserves in the Black Sea on Friday. In one of the world’s biggest finds last year, Turkey said it discovered 405 billion cubic metres of natural gas in the Black Sea’s Sakarya field, about 100 nautical miles north of مزید پڑھیں