The British Government has appointed Lord Aamer Sarfraz as Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Trade Envoy to Singapore to promote British interests and trade ties between the two countries. The UK Government’s Department for International Trade announced the appointment of a British Pakistani House of Lords member’s appointment at the important position. It congratulated Lord Aamer مزید پڑھیں

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on six North Koreans, one Russian and a Russian firm it said were responsible for procuring goods from Russia and China for North Korea’s weapons programmes, an action that follows a series of North Korean missile launches, including two since last week. The US Treasury Department said the مزید پڑھیں

North Korea fired at least two ballistic missiles on Friday, its third test in two weeks, just hours after criticising a US push for new sanctions over the previous launches as a “provocation” and warning of a strong reaction. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it had detected what it presumed were two مزید پڑھیں

David Sassoli, an Italian journalist who worked his way up in politics while defending the downtrodden and repressed to become president of the European Unions parliament, died at a hospital in Italy early on Tuesday. He was 65. European Council President Charles Michel called Sassoli a sincere and passionate European. We already miss his human مزید پڑھیں

Senior US and Russian officials launched special talks on Monday aimed at defusing tensions over a Russian military buildup on the border with Ukraine, part of a flurry of diplomatic activity in Europe this week. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and his delegation arrived under Swiss police escort at the US diplomatic mission in مزید پڑھیں

US announced basically 1.13 million new Covid contaminations as indicated by a Reuters count, the most elevated every day complete of any country on the world as the spread of the exceptionally infectious Omicron variation gave no indications of slowing down. The previous record was 1.03 million cases on January 3. A large number of مزید پڑھیں

China is willing to increase “law enforcement and security” cooperation with neighbouring Kazakhstan and help oppose interference by “external forces”, China’s foreign minister said on Monday, after violent protests in the Central Asian country. Wang Yi, who is also a state councillor, made the comments in a call to Kazakhstan’s foreign minister Mukhtar Tileuberdi, according مزید پڑھیں

Prime Minister asked Italians to get immunized against Covid, faulting the people who were not for “a large portion of the issues we confronting”, as Italy again fixed its Covid-19 guidelines. New restrictions came into force Monday barring the unvaccinated from restaurants, gyms, swimming pools, theatres, cinemas, sports events and public transport, with only those مزید پڑھیں

United Arab Emirates (UAE) formally switched to a Saturday-Sunday weekend as employees and schoolchildren juggled work and studies with weekly Muslim prayers on the first-ever working Friday. Some grumbled at the change and businesses were split, with many moving to the Western-style weekend but other private firms sticking with Fridays and Saturdays, as in other مزید پڑھیں

President Joe Biden forcefully condemned former President Donald Trump on Thursday for promoting a “big lie” that the 2020 United States election was stolen and inciting an angry mob of his supporters to attack Congress on January 6, 2021. In a blistering speech delivered in Statuary Hall, an ornate and marbled chamber that was choked مزید پڑھیں