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July 8, 2017 12:15 AM
The UN refugee affairs head said that granting citizenship to members of Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority is crucial for achieving peace in the country's western state of Rakhine, but economic development is also necessary.<br/><br/>United Nations High Commissioner for Refuge...
July 7, 2017 7:20 PM
The talks aimed at ending Cyprus's drawn-out conflict collapsed today without a deal, despite an 11th-hour bid by the UN chief. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told reporters that despite the very strong commitment and engagement of all the delegations and the different parties, the Confe...
July 7, 2017 5:51 PM
Pakistan has become the fifth most prolific executioner in the world by executing 465 prisoners since lifting a moratorium on death penalty in 2014. According to an organisation working for prisoners' rights, Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), in a report said, the use of death penalty has failed ...
July 7, 2017 5:15 PM
In Egypt, at least 10 security troops were killed and 20 people were injured when a car bomb struck a military checkpoint followed by heavy gunfire in northeastern Sinai Peninsula today. The dead included a high ranking special forces officer. <br/><br/>The officials said that the attack...
July 7, 2017 11:52 AM
Top American Senators have asked Pakistan to do more to eliminate terrorist safe havens in the country. A bipartisan Congressional delegation led by Senator John McCain conveyed this to authorities in Pakistan during their visit to Islamabad this week. <br/><br/>In a tweet, Democratic Se...
July 7, 2017 11:09 AM
The UN Security Council has sanctioned a splinter group of the Pakistan Taliban, subjecting it to assets freeze and an arms embargo. <br/><br/>The Security Council's Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee last night added Jamaat-Ul-Ahrar (JuA) to the terror group Islamic State and Al-Qaida Sa...
July 7, 2017 10:48 AM
In Japan, seven people killed and 14 missing after Typhoon Nanmadol swept across Japan earlier this week, dumping torrential rain that has wrecked homes, roads and rice terraces. <br/><br/>Heavy rains continue to batter western Japan for a third day. More than 1,100 people in Fukuoka and...
July 7, 2017 10:35 AM
The UN Security Council has sanctioned a splinter group of the Pakistan Taliban, subjecting it to assets freeze and an arms embargo. <br/><br/>The Security Council's Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee last night added Jamaat-Ul-Ahrar (JuA) to the terror group Islamic State and Al-Qaida Sa...
July 7, 2017 7:34 AM
A global treaty banning nuclear weapons is set to be adopted at the United Nations today despite opposition from the United States, Britain, France and other nuclear powers that boycotted negotiations. <br/><br/>Supporters describe the treaty as a historic achievement but the nuclear-arm...
July 7, 2017 7:13 AM
In Saudi, a bomb attack on a police patrol killed one officer and wounded six others in the Shiite-majority eastern province of Qatif. <br/><br/>The patrol was targeted while on duty yesterday in the neighbourhood of Al-Musara, the interior ministry said, cited by the official SPA news a...
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