At least 12 people died and an unspecified number were injured in a stampede at a soccer stadium in El Salvador, the Central American country’s government said. According to international media reports, Alianza FC and Club Deportivo FAS were playing the second leg of their playoff quarter-final game at the Cuscatlan stadium in San Salvador, مزید پڑھیں

Russia’s Wagner Group claimed on Saturday to have fully captured the smashed eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which would mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15-month war. The assault on the largely levelled city was led by troops from the Wagner Group of mercenaries, whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said earlier مزید پڑھیں

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cruises on Sunday into the final week before an historic runoff election as the big favourite to extend two decades of his Islamic-rooted rule until 2028. Secular leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu gave the opposition’s best performance of Erdogan’s dominant era in May 14 parliament and presidential polls. The retired bureaucrat of مزید پڑھیں

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to normalise the controversial action of August 2019 met global resistance after China, now Turkey, and Egypt also ‘decided’ to skip the G20 summit in picturesque Srinagar of Occupied Valley. The Indian efforts suffered a major blow as a number of G20 countries have either refused to attend a مزید پڑھیں

Russia banned entry to 500 Americans, including former president Barack Obama, in response to sanctions imposed by Washington. “In response to the anti-Russian sanctions regularly imposed by the Biden administration entry into the Russian Federation is closed for 500 Americans,” the Russian foreign ministry said, adding that Obama was among those on the list. On مزید پڑھیں

Arab League member states met on Friday in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah for a historic summit in which, for the first time in more than a decade, representatives of all 22 nations took part. During the summit on Friday, the organization’s 32nd, members adopted the Jeddah Declaration, which reaffirmed the Arab League’s united مزید پڑھیں

China on Friday opposed the G20 tourism summit being held in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), saying that it will not be a part of it, Reuters reported. India is set to chair this year’s G20 meeting and organised a number of meetings across the country in the run-up to the summit مزید پڑھیں

Years after the deadly civil war which led to the expulsion of Syria from the Arab League, President Bashar al-Assad received a warm welcome from Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman (MBS) Friday at the summit in Jeddah. “We are pleased today by the attendance of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in this summit,” Prince MBS, مزید پڑھیں

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attended a summit of the Arab League in Saudi Arabia on Friday to canvas support for his people, while Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman expressed his readiness to mediate in the war between Moscow and Kyiv. Also at the Jeddah gathering, Arab leaders warmly welcomed back into their fold Syria’s مزید پڑھیں

Xi Jinping called on China and Central Asia to “fully unleash” their potential in trade, economic and infrastructure cooperation on Friday, as he wrapped up a landmark summit with heads of state from the strategically vital region. The Chinese leader is hosting the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan at a summit in مزید پڑھیں