LONDON :King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived at Westminster Abbey in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach, for a ceremony where they will be crowned in front of a 2,200-strong congregation of world leaders and dignitaries. Prince Harry arrived at Westminster Abbey, joining his cousins and aunts and uncles before the […]
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LONDON: UNS/Reuters : Charles III will be crowned king on Saturday in Britain’s biggest ceremonial event for seven decades, a sumptuous display of pageantry dating back 1,000 years. Charles succeeded his mother Queen Elizabeth when she died last September and at 74, he will become the oldest British monarch to […]
MOSCOW -UNS/Reuter: Russia said on Thursday that the United States was behind what it says was a drone attack on the Kremlin that aimed to kill President Vladimir Putin, while Moscow’s forces fired more combat drones at Ukrainian cities including the capital Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, speaking in The […]
GOA -UNS: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari met his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in the Indian city of Goa on Thursday, the Foreign Office (FO) said. According to the FO, the two foreign ministers discussed bilateral, regional and […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS : Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang will reach Pakistan on his first visit since assuming the office later this week. Mr Gang would land in Islamabad on May 5 immediately after attending the SCO Foreign Ministers’ Meet 2023 in Indian state of Goa. He would hold strategic talks […]
Dutch police said on Monday that officers were surprised upon arresting a man in connection with a drunk driving incident over the weekend when his driver’s licence named him “Boris Johnson”. The fake Ukrainian driver’s licence, complete with the former British prime minister’s picture and correct birth date, was “issued” […]
RIYADH -UNS: The growing rapprochement between Riyadh and Tehran after years of mistrust was visible on Monday as Saudi Arabia helped evacuate Iranian citizens fleeing the war in Sudan. The Saudi navy carried the 65 Iranian citizens from Port Sudan to Jeddah and they will fly onwards to Tehran. Iran’s […]
NEW YORK-UNS/AFP: UN chief Antonio Guterres will gather international envoys at a secret location in Doha on Monday in an increasingly desperate bid to find ways to influence Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers. Considered the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis by the United Nations, Guterres’ quandary has been deepened by the Taliban administration’s […]
DHANGRI -AFP.UNS : Brandishing a bolt-action rifle, civil servant Sanjeet Kumar is one of 5,000 Kashmiri villagers who have joined all-Hindu militia units armed and trained by Indian forces to fight off attacks. Delhi has more than half a million soldiers permanently stationed in parts of held Kashmir, as the […]
BOMBAI-UNS/ANI : Ten police personnel and their driver were killed in India’s central Chhattisgarh state on Wednesday when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device (IED), an attack police blamed on Maoist rebels. India’s long-running Maoist insurgency began in the 1960s and has cost thousands of lives in the […]
