Tokyo and its suburbs were jolted by a strong earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 6.1 late on Thursday, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK reported. It registered a tremor of “5 plus” on Japan’s own scale of quake intensity, a level that could cause some damage to buildings and cause power cuts. Several bullet train lines مزید پڑھیں

Russia will invite the Taliban to international talks on Afghanistan scheduled for October 20 in Moscow, the Kremlin’s envoy to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said on Thursday. In response to a question from Russian journalists on whether representatives of the group would be invited to negotiations involving China, India, Iran and Pakistan, Kabulov said: “Yes”. The مزید پڑھیں

US Deputy Secretary of state Wendy Sherman and her seven-member delegation is scheduled to arrive in Pakistan today on a two-day visit to the country. The senior daplomat will hold important discussions with the civil and military leadership. The US diplomat and her delegation will arrive at the Islamabad International Airport by a chartered flight.the delegation مزید پڑھیں

US President Joe Biden said he spoke to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping Wednesday and that both have agreed to honour the Taiwan agreement as tensions have ratcheted up between Taipei and Beijing. “I’ve spoken with Xi about Taiwan. We agree … we’ll abide by the Taiwan agreement,” he said. “We made it clear that مزید پڑھیں

Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with blasphemous sketches of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), was killed in a car crash near the southern town of Markaryd on Sunday, police said. Vilks, 75, who had been living under police protection since the drawings were published, was travelling in a police vehicle that collided مزید پڑھیں

An explosion outside a mosque in the Afghan capital killed at least two people on Sunday, senior Taliban officials said. The blast struck near the entrance of the large Eid Gah Mosque in Kabul, spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter, adding that “a number of civilians” died. A spokesman from the interior ministry, Qari Sayed مزید پڑھیں

A huge fire on Saturday night severely damaged Rome’s famed “Iron Bridge”, with parts of the 19th-century structure plunging into the Tiber River. The bridge, which was opened in 1863 and whose formal name is Ponte dell’ Industria (Industry Bridge), connects the densely populated Ostiense and Portuense neighbourhoods. Pope Pius IX attended the 1863 inauguration مزید پڑھیں

In a stark admission during a hearing, the top US military official admitted that America “lost” the 20-year in Afghanistan and the “corrupt” Ashraf Ghani regime had lost people’s trust and collapsed sooner than expected. “It is clear, it is obvious to all of us, that the war in Afghanistan did not end on the مزید پڑھیں

Global shoppers face possible shortages of smartphones and other goods ahead of Christmas after power cuts to meet official energy use targets forced Chinese factories to shut down and left some households in the dark. In the northeastern city of Liaoyang, 23 people were hospitalised with gas poisoning after ventilation in a metal casting factory مزید پڑھیں

American senators have tabled a bill in the US Senate, demanding a deeper investigation into the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan and sanctions on the group as well as those who assisted them in driving out the Ashraf Ghani-led regime. The ‘Afghanistan Counterterrorism, Oversight, and Accountability Act’ seeks to establish a task force that will focus مزید پڑھیں