Russian President Vladimir Putin conveyed to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi his decision to abstain from attending the upcoming G20 Summit scheduled to be hosted by India. The summit, which is slated to convene in the capital city of Delhi from September 9 to 10, has drawn global attention as leaders from the world’s most مزید پڑھیں

Iraq has executed three people convicted in a 2016 bombing case involving the ISIL (ISIS) armed group that killed hundreds of people. According to international media reports, the office of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said on Monday that the hangings were carried out on Sunday night and Monday morning, but did not name those مزید پڑھیں

Japan has said a brick was thrown at its embassy in Beijing and that its citizens in China were facing harassment since it began releasing wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific. China has been the most vocal opponent to the release plan, a key part of Japanese efforts to decommission the plant مزید پڑھیں

The head of Libya’s Government of National Unity Abdul Hamid Dbeibah has suspended the Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush and referred her to investigation, a statement said early on Monday. According to international media reports, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said on Sunday he met with the Libyan Foreign Minister for the first time in history. مزید پڑھیں

France will ban children from wearing the abaya – the loose-fitting, full-length robe worn by some Muslim women – in state-run schools, the country’s education minister has said ahead of the back-to-school season. According to international media reports, France, which has enforced a strict ban on religious signs in state schools since 19th-century laws removed مزید پڑھیں

Three US Marines died on Sunday after an Osprey aircraft crashed on a remote tropical island north of Australia during war games, US military officials said. Five Marines had been rescued from the crash site and flown to a hospital in Darwin in a “serious condition”, the US officials said, while Australian police said they مزید پڑھیں

UN experts have written to oil firm Saudi Aramco and its financial backers challenging them on allegations that their activities are fuelling climate change-related negative impacts on human rights. A cache of correspondence was published on Saturday on a United Nations human rights special procedures website, exactly two months after it was sent. The letters مزید پڑھیں

Muhammad Masood, a 31-year-old licensed Pakistani doctor, living in the United States on a work visa, was sentenced to 18 years in jail for attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organisation, Daesh. “A Rochester man was sentenced today to 216 months in prison, equivalent to 18 years, followed by five years of supervised مزید پڑھیں

A masked white man has shot dead three Black people in a shop in Florida, in the southern United States, in a racially-motivated attack. According to international media reports, the sheriff’s office in Jacksonville, the man, who was in his 20s but has not yet been named, was wearing body armour when he entered the مزید پڑھیں

A fire erupted inside a stationary train compartment at a railway station in southern India killing at least nine people, officials said. According to internaitonal media reports, the blaze broke out early at 5 am local time on Saturday morning and burned for two hours before firefighters were able to put it out, authorities said. مزید پڑھیں