At least six people have been killed and 60 others injured in Beirut, where armed groups shot from rooftops at Hezbollah supporters, who had gathered to protest against the judge investigating last year’s catastrophic port explosion. Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television said the gunfire at Tayyoune neighborhood on Thursday targeted hundreds of people, who had gathered in مزید پڑھیں

A fire in a residential building in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung has killed 46 peopleand injured another 41, the government said on Thursday. The fire broke out in the 40-year-old building in Kaohsiung’s Yancheng district in the early hours of the morning and was extinguished around dawn. The Kaohsiung fire department said in مزید پڑھیں

Kuwaiti army Tuesday said that women will be allowed to join the military in combat roles for the first time after years of having been restricted only to civilian roles in the army. Defence Minister Hamad Jaber al-Ali al-Sabah said the door had been opened for women to join various combat ranks, including as officers, مزید پڑھیں

A coalition of workers at Google and Amazon has asked their employers to terminate a contract with the Israeli government, US-based publication The Hill reported Tuesday. Per the publication, more than 300 employees from Amazon and 100 from Google wrote an open letter to their respective companies to present their demands regarding the termination of مزید پڑھیں

The European Union (EU) on Tuesday pledged a one billion euro aid package for Afghanistan “to avert a major humanitarian and socio-economic collapse”, the bloc’s chief Ursula von der Leyen said. The money adds 250 million euros to a 300m euro sum the EU previously announced for urgent humanitarian needs, with the remainder going to مزید پڑھیں

Madrid was awaiting the arrival of Afghans who had worked for Spain, whose evacuation it had arranged via Pakistan, the Spanish prime minister’s office said Monday. It said that the ministers “will greet the first flight with Afghan refugees arriving from Islamabad on Monday at 9:00 pm (1900 GMT) at the Torrejon de Ardoz airbase” مزید پڑھیں

The Taliban will hold joint face-to-face talks with European and US envoys, the EU said on Monday, as the Afghan leaders pursue their diplomatic push for international support. Afghanistan’s new rulers are seeking recognition, as well as assistance to avoid a humanitarian disaster, after they returned to power in August following the withdrawal of US مزید پڑھیں

India’s largest port operator Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone said on Monday that its terminals would no longer handle export and import of container cargoes from Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan from November 15. “This trade advisory will apply to all terminals operated by (Adani Ports) and including third party terminals at any (company) port مزید پڑھیں

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday implored Israel not to “lose sight” of the need to establish a Palestinian state, as she wrapped up a two-day farewell visit. Merkel’s support for a two-state solution has been one of the key disagreements with Israel’s leadership during her 16 years in office, which were characterised by unwavering مزید پڑھیں

In Rabi- ul-Awwal, municipal services are being carried out in religious spirit, Shoaib Ahmed Malik karachi; Administrator DMC East, Shoaib Ahmed Malik and Municipal Commissioner Ghulam Sarwar Rahpoto have said that work is underway to provide municipal services in connection with the celebration of Eid Milad-ul-Nabi (Peace be upon him), while the head office of مزید پڑھیں