Boko Haram militants kill 17 Nigerian soldiers

AFP | At least 17 Nigerian soldiers were killed in a fresh Boko Haram attack on a military base in the country's northeast, military sources...

Will Imran re-write the history by taking oath on August 17?

News Analysis | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman, Imran Khan, will take the oath as prime minister, of Pakistan, on either August 17 or 18, party’s...

Hair transplant and weight loss can’t stop Mexican narco’s arrest

AFP | A Mexican drug lord underwent a hair transplant and gastric bypass in an attempt to change his appearance and evade authorities but still...

Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s address causes outrage in Pakistan

News Analysis | https://www.facebook.com/maulabakhshpage/videos/503131293462051/ Jamiat Ulema-e Islam (F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday stated that they would not accept ‘fake prime minister ’ at any...

Five questions on Israel’s controversial Jewish nation law

AFP | Israel's parliament held a special session on Wednesday to debate a controversial law passed last month declaring the country the nation-state of the...

Dr. Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau: “Mother Teresa of Pakistan”

News Desk | Dr Ruth a German-born physician and nun of the Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (born 9 September 1929) dedicated her...

Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia claimed over 400 lives

AFP | The day that Soviet-led armies rolled into communist Czechoslovakia to put an end to a pro-democracy movement changed Milan Tesar's life. "I saw...

Soviet army nearly ‘battled’ US filmmakers in Prague Spring

AFP | Propaganda-fuelled Soviet soldiers were ready to take on American and German armies during the 1968 invasion of former Czechoslovakia -- before they realized...

Palestinian-American positioned to be first Muslim woman in US Congress

AFP | Rashida Tlaib, a mother of two and daughter of Palestinian immigrants once detained for disrupting a Donald Trump speech, made history on Wednesday,...

Indonesia quake toll jumps to 164, survivors wait for aid

AFP | The devastating earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok was "exceptionally destructive" and wiped out entire villages in the worst-hit regions, relief agencies...

Australia strips five of citizenship over Islamic State links

AFP | Five people have been stripped of their Australian citizenship for fighting alongside the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, with officials saying...

Ten ways climate change can make wildfires worse

AFP | As out-of-control wildfires ravage large swathes of Portugal, Spain and northern California, AFP talked to scientists about the ways in which global warming...