The sun will pass directly over the Holy Kaaba in Saudi Arabia today, enabling Muslims across the globe to determine the direction of the Qibla by seeing the sun at that moment. According to details, the sun will pass directly over the Kaaba at 12:26 pm at Makkah and 2:26 pm Pakistan Standard Time. The مزید پڑھیں

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci arrived on Monday for questioning by war crimes prosecutors in The Hague, saying that “nobody can rewrite history” over his role in the 1990s war. Thaci, 52, was indicted by a special tribunal in late June for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1998-99 conflict with Serbia that won مزید پڑھیں

Prince Andrew already secured a near permanent position in the headlines after his alleged involvement with Jeffrey Epstein came out, now it seems his past tussle with Palace guards, over being denied access to enter the Palace, has come to light. A source recently came forward to reveal one of Prince Andrew’s past spats from مزید پڑھیں

California’s governor on Monday clamped new restrictions on businesses as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations soared, and the state’s two largest school districts, in Los Angeles and San Diego, said children would be made to stay home in August. Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, ordered bars closed and restaurants, movie theaters, zoos and museums across the مزید پڑھیں

The number of coronavirus infections around the world hit 13 million on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, climbing by a million in just five days. The pandemic has now killed more than half a million people in six-and-a-half months, and World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there would be no return مزید پڑھیں

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday said that the country will inform the United Nation’s cultural body UNESCO about changes to Istanbul’s ancient Hagia Sophia after Ankara converted the museum back into a mosque. On Friday, a Turkish court ruled that the building’s conversion to a museum in 1934 was unlawful and President Tayyip مزید پڑھیں

China on Monday slapped retaliatory sanctions on three senior Republican lawmakers and a US envoy in a deepening row over Beijing’s treatment of Uighurs in the western Xinjiang region. Some of the most outspoken critics of China — Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz along with Congressman Chris Smith — were targeted by the action, مزید پڑھیں

A protest outside the Indian Embassy in London, encouraged by the Indian government following a clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers in Laddakh, failed on Sunday as only 20 supporters of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) answered the call for a protest demanding a boycott of China. The turnout was disappointing for the organisers who had مزید پڑھیں

The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Sunday, with the total rising by 230,370 in 24 hours. The biggest increases were from the United States, Brazil, India and South Africa, according to a daily report. The previous WHO record for new cases was 228,102 on July 10. Deaths remained مزید پڑھیں

 More than half a million Hong Kong people voted in primaries held by pro-democracy parties to choose candidates for upcoming legislative elections, organisers said on Sunday. The high turnout for the unofficial poll came despite a government warning that it could be in breach of a tough new security law imposed on the city by مزید پڑھیں