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Google should explain why PM Imran’s photo shows in ‘Bhikari’ search results: PA resolution

A resolution has been filed in the Punjab Assembly against online mega search engine Google over showing Prime Minister Imran Khan’s photo under ‘Bhikari’ (Beggar) search. Sharing the news, journalist Read More

World’s indifference to sexual violence must end: Nobel laureates

The world must stop turning a blind eye to the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege urged, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize along Read More

6.3-magnitude earthquake hits western Iran

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 has shaken western Iran near its border with Iraq, the US Geological Survey (USGS) has reported. USGS on Sunday said the quake was Read More

Germany bans Saudi suspects over Khashoggi murder

Saudi Arabia has admitted Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul. Khashoggi - a Saudi writer, US resident and Washington Post columnist - entered Read More

Australia, Malaysia in war of words over Israel embassy shift

Australia's treasurer on Friday said Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad had a history of anti-Jewish statements in an escalating war of words over the possibility Australia might move its embassy Read More

Erdogan says Khashoggi recordings shocked Saudi intelligence

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said recordings related to the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, which Ankara has shared with Western allies, are ‘appalling’, and shocked a Saudi intelligence officer who Read More

Trump plans to ‘terminate birthright citizenship’

President Donald Trump is intensifying his hardline immigration rhetoric heading into the midterm elections, declaring that he wants to order the end of the constitutional right to citizenship for babies Read More

Kandahar polls postponed after police chief’s killing

Parliamentary elections in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, due to be held on Saturday, will be delayed by a week following the assassination of a powerful provincial police commander, according to Read More

School in Russian-annexed Crimea hit by deadly attack

A student has attacked a vocational college in the Russian-annexed peninsula, Crimea, killing at least 17 people before killing himself, according to Russia's Investigative Committee. The committee said CCTV footage Read More

India’s BJP changes Muslim name of Allahabad to Prayagraj

Authorities in India's most populous state have changed the Muslim name of a historic city to one with Hindu overtones, local media reported. Allahabad, a city of more than one Read More