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GENEVA: At least 576,000 people in the Gaza Strip - one quarter of the population - are one step away from famine, a senior UN aid official told the Security Council warning that widespread…

ISLAMABAD: The 16th National Assembly was sworn-in on Wednesday after the oath-taking of the lawmakers elected during the February 8 general elections. Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf…

Bollywood actress Taapsee Pannu is set to tie the knot with long-time beau Mathias Boe in intimate ceremony, Indian media reported. Taapsee Pannu and Mathias Boe have been dating each…

NEW DELHI: India introduced four crew members for its maiden 'Gaganyaan' space voyage, as it aims to become the world's fourth country to send a crewed mission into space just months after a…

MUMBAI: India’s western state of Maharashtra will inspect outlets of global fast-food brands to check if they use cheese alternatives in products wrongly promoted as containing real cheese,…

BERLIN: Asylum applications in the European Union jumped 18% to 1.14 million in 2023, the highest level since the 2015-2016 migrant crisis, data from the European Union Agency for Asylum…

PESHAWAR: Newly-elected members of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly have taken oath after the session was marred by ruckus caused by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers. The…

Google plans to relaunch in the next few weeks its AI tool that creates images of people, which it paused last week after inaccuracies in some historical depictions, Google DeepMind CEO…

Late Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala's parents are expecting another child. According to Indian media, Sidhu's mother Charan Singh went for IVF treatment and was successful in conceiving a…

NEW YORK: Students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York will receive free tuition after a $1 billion dollar donation from a former faculty member. The widow of a…

BENGALURU: Embattled digital payments firm Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma would step down as non-executive chairman and board member of its payments bank unit, as part of a major board…

AUCKLAND: New Zealand fast bowler Neil Wagner has announced his retirement from international cricket. Wagner revealed the news on the eve of New Zealand's two-match Test series at home…

WASHINGTON: An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force has died after he set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., in an apparent protest…

WELLINGTON: New Zealand will repeal a world-first law banning tobacco sales for future generations, even while researchers and campaigners warned of the risk that people could die as a…

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden said Israel has agreed to halt military activities in Gaza for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, as Hamas studied a draft proposal for a truce which…