New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is on her way to election victory, although the on-going pandemic outbreak has dented her support slightly, a widely watched poll revealed on Sunday. A Newshub-Reid Research Poll released on Sunday showed support for Ardern’s Labour Party at 50.1%, though this is down from the record 60.9% recorded earlier مزید پڑھیں

A Pakistan-born teenager has admitted to stabbing two people with a meat cleaver outside the former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, investigators said on Saturday, with nine people now detained. The 18-year-old said he wanted to avenge the republication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) by the satirical weekly, which مزید پڑھیں

United States President Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, and she pledged to become a justice in the mold of the late staunch conservative Antonin Scalia, setting another milestone in Trump’s rightward shift of the top US judicial body. Trump’s announcement during a flag-festooned White House Rose Garden ceremony مزید پڑھیں

Clashes have broken out between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, with at least one Azerbaijani helicopter shot down. Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan said Azerbaijan had launched an air and artillery attack. Azerbaijan said it was responding to shelling along the whole front. Both sides have reported civilian deaths. The long-running conflict مزید پڑھیں

As China and the United States (US) continued to squabble at the United Nations, one of the smallest states in the world, Micronesia, called on both sides to practice restraint. “Micronesia asks our American and Chinese friends to reinforce their cooperation and friendship with each other … to achieve what is best for our global مزید پڑھیں

At least 22 people were killed when a military aircraft carrying air force cadets crashed in eastern Ukraine, officials said. The Antonov An-26 aircraft crashed while trying to land during a training exercise in the city of Chuhuiv in the Kharkiv region, the civil defence authority in Kiev said. Two seriously injured survivors were recovered مزید پڑھیں

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un issued a rare apology on Friday over what he described as the “unexpected and disgraceful” killing of a South Korean at sea, Seoul’s presidential office said. Apologies from the North — let alone attributed to Kim personally — are extremely unusual, and the message comes with inter-Korean ties in مزید پڑھیں

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas appealed on Friday to the United Nations to arrange an international conference on the peace process, in the wake of Gulf Arab recognition of Israel. In an address to the UN General Assembly, Abbas asked Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to convene the meeting “early next year” and bring in “all relevant parties”. مزید پڑھیں

China on Thursday lashed out at the United States at a high-level UN meeting over its criticism on the coronavirus, with its envoy declaring “Enough is enough!” Two days after President Donald Trump used his annual address to the General Assembly to attack China, its ambassador to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, strongly criticised the مزید پڑھیں

United States President Donald Trump again declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the November 3 presidential election. “We’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump said on Wednesday at a news conference, responding to a question about whether he’d commit to a peaceful transfer of power. “You know مزید پڑھیں