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WASHINGTON: As the United States and the new Pakistani government prepare for their first face-to-face talks in Islamabad, the Trump administration has made it clear that Pakistan will have to back the…

ISLAMABAD: After Pentagon said that it had sought Congressional assent to reprogramme USD 300 million of its Coalition Support Fund (CSF) for Pakistan because of its “lack of” decisive actions in support…

United Nations: India has made rapid progress in increasing access to sanitation in schools, the United Nations said in a report, noting that the proportion of schools without any sanitation facility has…

ISLAMABAD: As Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed to further strengthen Pakistan-Iran ties, the government expressed unequivocal support for Iran’s position on its troubled nuclear deal with the West that has been abandoned…

Washington :The US is ending all funding for the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, the UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), describing it as “irredeemably flawed”, a State Department official said. The US…

Washington :President Donald Trump has threatened to pull the United States out of the World Trade Organisation if it does not “shape up”. His remarks, made in an interview with Bloomberg News,…

BEIJING: China took issue with a UN report that called on Beijing to release ethnic Uighurs detained “under the pretext” of counter-terrorism, saying its findings had “no factual basis”. Up to one…

ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey will buy some of Russia’s highly-sophisticated air defence systems “in the shortest time” — a purchase that has alarmed Ankara’s Nato partners. “Turkey needs S-400s…

Washington: US President Donald Trump threatened in an interview with Bloomberg News on Thursday to withdraw from the World Trade Organization if “they don’t shape up,” in his latest criticism of the…

BANGKOK: Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned as Myanmar’s de facto leader over last year’s brutal army campaign against the Rohingya, the outgoing UN human rights chief has told…