Saudi Arabia said on Saturday it executed a record 81 people in one day for a variety of terrorism-related offences, exceeding the total number it sentenced to death last year. All had been “found guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes”, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported, saying they included convicts linked to the Daesh group, مزید پڑھیں

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that Russia had adopted a “fundamentally different approach” in talks to end the conflict, as French and German leaders pressed the Russian president to end the days-long and deadly siege of port city of Mariupol. In a media briefing, Zelensky said that Russia’s new approach was in contrast مزید پڑھیں

Senior officials from Afghanistan, Qatar and the US held a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) that kicked off in Turkey on Friday. Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi met Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani and Tom West, US special مزید پڑھیں

The Indian defence ministry regretted on Friday that a missile “accidentally” entered Pakistan and fell in Khanewal district’s Mian Channu area on Wednesday, attributing the incident to a “technical malfunction”. “On 9 March 2022, in the course of routine maintenance, a technical malfunction led to the accidental firing of a missile,” the ministry said in مزید پڑھیں

A week after the United Arab Emirates abstained from UN votes on Ukraine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with his UAE counterpart and “discussed with him cooperation to advance peace and security at the UN Security Council (UNSC)”. The US State Department said in a statement that in his call to Foreign Minister مزید پڑھیں

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig has died two months after the medical milestone, the hospital that carried out the surgery said on Wednesday. The procedure raised hopes that advances in cross-species organ donation could one day solve the chronic shortage of human organs available for donation, and مزید پڑھیں

Ukraine said on Wednesday there was a danger of a radiation leak at the Chernobyl nuclear power station after electricity was cut off to the plant, but the UN nuclear watchdog saw “no critical impact on security”. On the other hand, Russia’s defence ministry accused Ukrainian forces of attacking power lines and a substation feeding مزید پڑھیں

Residents of the bombarded suburbs of Ukraine’s capital snaked their way across the slippery wooden planks of a makeshift bridge that provided the only way to escape Russian shelling, amid renewed efforts on Wednesday to rescue civilians from besieged cities. With sporadic gunfire echoing behind them, firefighters dragged an elderly man to safety in a مزید پڑھیں

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will travel to Turkey on Wednesday for talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba, the TASS news agency cited the Russian foreign ministry as saying. The meeting was to take place on the sidelines of a summit being hosted by Turkey, a Nato member nation, but no further details were مزید پڑھیں

Russia’s military held fire and opened humanitarian corridors in several Ukrainian cities on Monday, the Defence Ministry said, after fighting halted weekend evacuation efforts and civilian casualties. The corridors opened at 10 am Moscow time (0700 GMT) from the capital Kyiv as well as the cities of Kharkiv, Mariupol and Sumy and were being set مزید پڑھیں