Second global wave of coronavirus nigh amid cases in New Zealand and China

More than two dozen new coronavirus cases in China and the first New Zealand infections in almost a month on Tuesday underlined the immense...

Repercussions of tensions between India and China for Asia

The uprising of Ladakh in 1959 had transformed into a full-fledged war between China and India in 1962. It resulted in a rather unfavourable...

Foreign investment obliterated by pandemic: UN

Global foreign direct investment flows are likely to plunge by 40 percent this year due to the coronavirus crisis, the UN said Tuesday, with...

Three Indians killed in Ladakh clash with China

Three Indians have been killed in a "violent face-off" in Ladakh clash with China on the border, the Indian army said Tuesday following weeks...

What makes ICC investigation of US war crimes in Afghanistan highly sensitive

Britain has joined France and Germany to break with the United States over President Trump’s Executive Order on June 11 authorising economic sanctions against...

A complete list finalized to lock down streets of 32 areas in Lahore

A list has been finalized to lock down the streets of 32 areas in Lahore to counter novel coronavirus and will be presented in...

Monsoon in India to add insult to virus injury

With hospitals already severely stretched, coronavirus-hit India is now bracing for the monsoon and its deadly annual onslaught of mosquito-borne illnesses, with an overwhelmed...

Pakistan’s positivity rate of the COVID-19 is 22%, WHO

Pakistan’s positivity rate of the deadly coronavirus is now 22 per cent, finds a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Positivity rates, which...

Chennai lockdown reimposed amid flurry of new coronavirus cases

Authorities in the Tamil Nadu state capital Chennai are imposing a new 12-day strict lockdown amid a resurgence in coronavirus cases in the region....

Achilles heel for PTI: The foreign funding case

Seventy is the number of times the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) scrutiny committee has met, so far, in the PTI-foreign funding case. Make...

Iran violating nuclear deal: Israeli intelligence report

Tehran called on the international nuclear watchdog to maintain neutrality and refrain from “unconstructive” decisions based on a biased Israeli intelligence report that claims...

Top Russian newspaper editors quit, denouncing censorship

Senior editors at Russia's leading business newspaper quit Monday in protest against what they say is censorship under new ownership, as a months-long dispute...