An increasingly high-stakes standoff between Donald Trump and federal investigators lands in court on Thursday, after days of headline-grabbing revelations surrounding highly classified documents seized by the FBI from the former president’s Florida home. Trump’s lawyers are asking that an outside party — a “special master” — be named to reassess the government’s screening of مزید پڑھیں

Bankrupt Sri Lanka’s deposed former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to end his self-imposed exile in Thailand and return home on Saturday, a top defence official told AFP. The 73-year-old fled the island under military guard in July after a huge crowd stormed his official residence, following months of angry public protests blaming him for مزید پڑھیں

A huge bomb blast on Friday at one of the biggest mosques in western Afghanistan martyred at least 18 people, including an influential cleric who earlier this year called for those who commit “the smallest act” against the government to be beheaded. Images posted on Twitter showed what appeared to be blood-stained bodies scattered around مزید پڑھیں

Sri Lanka has reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan of about $2.9 billion, the global lender said on Thursday, as the country seeks a way out its worst economic crisis in decades. The agreement, which Reuters first reported on Wednesday, is subject to approval by IMF management and مزید پڑھیں

Sri Lanka has reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan of about $2.9 billion, the global lender said on Thursday, as the country seeks a way out of its worst economic crisis in decades. According to international media, the agreement, which Reuters first reported on Wednesday, is subject to مزید پڑھیں

The wife of ex-Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to ten years in prison on each of three bribery charges. According to international media, the verdict on Thursday came just a week after Najib began serving a 12-year jail sentence over a case linked to the looting of the 1MDB state fund. Rosmah مزید پڑھیں

Mikhail Gor­bachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday. He was 92. Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, forged arms reduction deals with the United States and partnerships with Western powers to remove the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe since World War مزید پڑھیں

Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom has again suspended gas deliveries on the arterial Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany, citing maintenance requirements. According to international media, the suspension is the latest in a series of halts to gas supplies that have contributed to an ongoing energy crisis in Europe in the wake of the Russian مزید پڑھیں

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres will travel to Pakistan next week on a “solidarity visit” and meet people impacted by the “historic floods” that have hit the country this year, according to a statement issued by the international body on Tuesday. “He is expected to arrive in Islamabad on Friday, September 9, and travel مزید پڑھیں

The United Arab Emirates has established an air bridge of humanitarian assistance to transport relief aid and shelter materials for those affected by torrential rains and floods in Pakistan. UAE Ambassador Hamad Obaid Al Zaabi said the bridge was established at the directives of UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. This assistance includes مزید پڑھیں