Category: International News

BEIJING, Nov 19 (APP):The dead body of a Pakistani student who reportedly committed suicide at Shenyang city in Liaoning province in China was transported to home by PIA flight from Beijing Capital Airport here on Monday.

  NEW YORK, Nov 19 (APP):Efforts to reset the strained Islamabad-Washington relations have apparently received a setback following President Donald Trump accusations that Pakistan was not doing “a damn thing for us”, and defended his administration’s decision to withhold military aid to the country.

  UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (APP):Targets to reduce global rates of infections and deaths from malaria are not being met, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday as the UN agency released its 2018 World malaria report.

  UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (APP):The United Nations has expressed concern over reports of shootings by Myanmar police at a camp for Rohingya refugees in Rakhine state.

  UNITED NATIONS, Nov 17 (APP):A committee of the UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution, sponsored by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), condemning human rights violations of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims and calling for the perpetrators to be held accountable.

  UNITED NATIONS, Nov 17 (APP):Delivering impassioned pleas on behalf of 14 million civilians teetering on the edge of famine in Yemen, senior United Nations and civil society leaders emphasized that a new ‘window of hope’ has now opened in that country’s devastating and overlooked war.

  UNITED NATIONS, Nov 17 (APP):The Trump administration on Friday voted for the first time against a United Nations resolution that condemned Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 16 (APP)::The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF ) on Friday welcomed confirmation from the Bangladesh authorities that Rohingya refugees will not be returned to Myanmar against their will, amid reported ongoing rights violations there.

NEW YORK, Nov 17 (APP):Alcohol is killing more adults in the United States than the opioid epidemic, according to a new study.

LONDOND, Nov 16 (APP):United Kingdom (UK) has expressed its deep concerns on the reports of premature Rohingya repatriation to Burma (Mayanmar) from Bangladesh.

NEW YORK, Nov 15 (APP)::Next year’s Indian elections could see a spate of religious violence, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata party “are not afraid to play gutter politics” to accomplish their goals, Bloomberg, a New York-based international news service, reported Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 15 (APP)::The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) and the United Nations have signed an agreement aimed at promoting the contribution of sport in the race to reach UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 15 (APP)::UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has welcomed the lifting a range of sanctions the Security Council imposed on Eritrea nearly a decade ago, saying the move will contribute to advancing peace-building efforts in the Horn of Africa.

BEIJING, Nov 15 (APP):Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member state leaders are confident that the young people united by the ‘Shanghai Spirit’ are capable of becoming a powerful creative force to fight against the spread of terrorism, extremism and the rejection of law,” SCO Secretary General Rashid Alimov said.

BEIJING, Nov 15 (APP):At least six Information Technology (IT) companies from Pakistan set up a stall at the Belt and Road pavilion in China’s largest hi-tech fair opened in Shenzhen in South China’s Guangdong province.

LONDON, Nov 15 (APP):The United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) negotiating teams have reached agreement in principle on the Withdrawal Agreement.