Israel beefs up police ahead of Jerusalem march

Israel is deploying over 2,000 police for a parade by flag-waving Jewish nationalists through the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel deployed over 2,000 police on Thursday for a march by flag-waving Jewish nationalists through the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City, a contentious event that comes as tensions are already running مزید پڑھیں

Hundreds feared dead in Myanmar after Cyclone Mocha

More than 400 people are dead in Myanmar’s Rakhine state from Cyclone Mocha, which made landfall Sunday on the coast between Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district and Myanmar Kyaukpyu township, a rights group said. The Arakan Rohingya National Alliance (ARNA) in a statement on Wednesday said that coastal villages in Rakhine’s capital Sittwe suffered extensive damage مزید پڑھیں

80% of Palestinians prefer Chinese mediation over US

Survey conducted in International newspaper by YouGov finds EU and China behind Russia as potential effective mediators. Almost 60 percent of respondents said they did not trust the US to mediate Palestinian-Israeli negotiations. Majority of Palestinians view China and Russia as potentially effective mediators for their peace talks with the state of Israel, a recent survey مزید پڑھیں

US President appoints Pakistani-American Shahid Ahmed Khan for ‘prestigious advisory role’

US President Joe Biden’s has appointed Shahid Ahmed Khan to the prestigious President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts (PACA), the White House confirmed via a statement released on May 12. The PACA, an institution steeped in history since its establishment in 1958, has been a steadfast pillar of support for the John F. Kennedy Centre مزید پڑھیں

Blasts rock Khartoum as Sudan fighting enters fifth week

Air strikes have pummelled Khartoum, with representatives of Sudan’s warring factions meeting in Saudi Arabia for talks to prevent a “humanitarian catastrophe” as the fighting entered a fifth week. According to international media reports, more than 750 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced since fighting erupted on April 15 between army chief مزید پڑھیں