سری لنکا دھماکوں میں انتہائی مطلوب ملزم زہران ہاشم کے ہلاک ہونے کی تصدیق
بین الاقوامی خبر رساں ادارے کے مطابق صدر میتھری پالا نے ہنگامی پریس کانفرنس میں سری لنکا میں گرجا گھروں اور ہوٹلوں پر خود کش حملے کے ماسٹر مائنڈ زہران ہاشم کے ہلاک ہونے کی تصدیق کردی ہے۔ سی سی ٹی وی فوٹیجز سے تصدیق ہوتی ہے کہ ہاشم شنگریلا ہوٹل دھماکے میں ہلاک ہوا جہاں اس کے ساتھ ایک ...
یوکرائن میں کوئلے کی کان میں دھماکا، 4 ہلاک اور 13 لاپتا
بین الاقوامی خبر رساں ادارے کے مطابق یوکرائن کے دارالحکومت لوہانسک کے مغربی علاقے میں واقع کان زور دار دھماکے کے بعد دب گئی، جس کے نتیجے میں درجنوں افراد ملبے تلے دب گئے، ملبے سے صرف 4 کان کنوں کی لاشیں نکالی جاسکی ہیں جب کہ 13 کان کن لاپتا ہیں، سیکیورٹی فورسز نے دھماکوں میں باغیوں کے ملوث ...
طیارہ بردار بھارتی بحری جہاز میں آتشزدگی، لیفٹیننٹ کمانڈر ہلاک
بین الاقوامی خبر رساں ادارے کے مطابق انڈین نیوی کے بحری جہاز وکرمادیتا کرناٹکا کے بحری حدود میں داخل ہوئی تو نچلے کمپارٹمنٹ میں آگ بھڑک اُٹھی، کمانڈر ڈی ایس چوہان کی سربراہی میں امدادی ٹیم نے آگ بجھانے کی کوشش جس کے دوران لیفٹیننٹ کمانڈر ہلاک ہوگئے۔ لیفٹیننٹ کمانڈر ڈی ایس چوہان آگ بجھانے والی ٹیم کی سربراہی کر رہے ...
Israel heads to new election after Netanyahu stumbles
But as Wednesday?s midnight deadline to form a coalition approached, Netanyahu was unable to convince ex-defence minister Avigdor Lieberman to abandon a key demand and join the government. The vote followed raucous moments in parliament that saw opposition members chant ?shame!? It prevented Netanyahu?s nightmare scenario of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin naming someone else to try to form a government, ...
Ardern’s ‘wellbeing’ budget spreads good vibes in New Zealand
Ardern’s ‘wellbeing’ budget spreads good vibes in New Zealand. For best experience download and install PkShorts app on your smartphone
Climate change killing off Bering Sea puffins, say scientists
Climate change killing off Bering Sea puffins, say scientists. For best experience download and install PkShorts app on your smartphone
US believes Russia conducting low-level nuclear tests: official
?The United States believes that Russia probably is not adhering to its nuclear testing moratorium in a manner consistent with the ?zero-yield? standard,? Lieutenant General Robert P. Ashley said at an arms control forum at the Hudson Institute. There was no immediate response from the Russian government, but the head of the Russian State Duma Defense Committee, Vladimir Shamanov, ...
WikiLeaks’ Assange too ill to appear via video link in U.S. extradition hearing
?? WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was too ill on Thursday to appear via video link from a British prison in a hearing on an extradition request from the United States, his lawyer said. Judge Emma Arbuthnot added at Westminster Magistrates? Court: ?He?s not very well.? WikiLeaks said it had grave concerns about Assange?s health and that he had been moved ...
Google Welcomes Cricket World Cup 2019 with Doodle
To commemorate the incredible tournament search engine giant Google has dedicated a special doodle as the 2019 Cricket World Cup kicks off today in London. The Cricket World Cup takes place every four years with the last edition held in 2015 in Australia and New Zealand with the hosts Aussies being crowned champions. ?No matter how heated the ...
11-year-old Iranian girl beats Einstein, Stephen Hawking in Mensa IQ tests
TEHRAN: An? 11-year-old Iranian school girl scored the highest points in Mensa IQ Test leaving behind world renowned scientists Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Tara Sharif?s father also shared? his two cents on his daughter's success saying: ?I am extremely proud but very surprised at how well Tara scored." She said, ?When I am older, I would like to ...
Ex-Chinese envoy to Pakistan appointed deputy foreign minister
?China?s State Council appointed Luo Zhaohui, a former envoy to Pakistan, as vice minister of foreign affairs, replacing Kong Xuanyou, reported . As an ambassador to?Pakistan, Luo Zhaohui had contributed significantly to further enhancing and deepening of the bilateral relations between?Pakistan?and?China. With his understanding of South Asian affairs, he was instrumental in promoting Pakistan-China relations. The former vice minister ...
Mahathir says Malaysia will use Huawei ‘as much as possible’
Tokyo: Malaysia will continue using Huawei products ?as much as possible,? bucking a global trend prompted by security concerns and a US ban on the Chinese firm, the country?s prime minister said Thursday. Mahathir said Huawei had access to research ?far bigger than the whole of Malaysia?s research equivalent.? ?So we try to make use of their technology as much ...
Ardern’s ‘wellbeing’ budget spreads good vibes in New Zealand
?Today we have laid the foundation for not just one wellbeing budget, but a different approach for government decision-making altogether.? While dismissed by critics as marketing spin, Ardern views the budget as a way to deliver the reformist agenda she campaigned on in the 2017 election. ?I have no idea what that means and, outside the Wellington bureaucracy, I?m not ...
US believes Russia conducting low-level nuclear tests: official
?The United States believes that Russia probably is not adhering to its nuclear testing moratorium in a manner consistent with the ?zero-yield? standard,? Lieutenant General Robert P. Ashley said at an arms control forum at the Hudson Institute. There was no immediate response from the Russian government, but the head of the Russian State Duma Defense Committee, Vladimir Shamanov, ...
Saudi calls on Muslim world to reject Iran ‘interference’
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday sought to rally support among Islamic nations against arch-rival Iran, demanding ?firmness? over attacks on Gulf oil facilities?ahead of three summits?as regional tensions soar. Saudi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Assaf blasted Iranian ?interference? in the region, just hours after United States National Security Advisor John Bolton said Tehran was almost certainly behind oil tanker attacks. ...
China accuses US of ‘naked economic terrorism’
?We are against the trade war, but we are not afraid of it,? vice foreign minister Zhang Hanhui said at a press briefing to preview President Xi Jinping?s trip to Russia next week. ?This premeditated instigation of a trade conflict is naked economic terrorism, economic chauvinism, and economic bullying,? Zhang said, stressing that China opposes the systematic use of ...
Seven South Koreans dead, 21 missing as Budapest tourist boat sinks
Seven South Korean tourists died and 21 others were missing after a sightseeing boat capsized and sank on the Danube in Budapest, Hungarian and South Korean officials said Thursday. The accident happened near the parliament building in the heart of the Hungarian capital after a collision with a larger river cruise boat during torrential rain at around 09:15 ...
Pakistani seafood export to China brisk amid robust demand: Chinese fishing company
ISLAMABAD, May 30 (APP):The export of Pakistani seafood from Gwadar to Chinese cities through Urumqi, China?s Xinjiangautonomous region has increased manifold owing to robust demand, Chen Baoliang, chairman of the board of Xinjiang Yu-Fei International Fishing Company said on Thursday.
WHO highlights huge scale of tobacco-related lung disease deaths
UNITED NATIONS, May 30 (APP):Tobacco use continues to claim around eight million lives a year, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, in a call for faster action from governments to tackle smoking and the “enormous” health, social, environmental and economic costs it entails. Ahead of World No Tobacco Day, which is marked on Friday, WHO’s Dr Vinayak Prasad, acting Director ...
Pakistan says aspirants for permanent seats holding up UN Security Council reform
UNITED NATIONS, May 30 (APP):Pakistan has urged the aspirants of permanent seats on the UN Security Council — India, Brazil, Germany and Japan — to make “serious efforts” to show flexibility and not be an obstacle in negotiations to reform the 15-member body. “The way forward entails displaying flexibility rather than reviving in another guise any outmoded notion of power and ...
