26-12-2025 UNITED NATIONS: UN experts and 400 prominent women have urged Iran not to execute Zahra Tabari, a 67-year-old electrical engineer and women’s rights activist. Ms Tabari was arrested in April and accused of collaborating with a banned opposition group, the People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI), according to her …

26-12-2025 UNITED NATIONS: Venezuela has accused the United States of the “greatest extortion” at an emergency session of the UN Security Council in New York. Washington’s seizure of two Venezuelan oil tankers was “worse than piracy,” the Venezuelan ambassador to the UN said. The emergency meeting of the Security Council …

26-12-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: In an attempt to prevent a repeat of the recent IndiGo fiasco, the Indian government has given the green light to two new airlines. The move comes on the heels of a disruption that left thousands of flyers stranded and showed just how risky too …

26-12-2025 LONDON: The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure US tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints. The Europeans, described by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “radical” activists and “weaponized” nongovernmental organizations, fell afoul of a new visa …

26-12-2025 CAIRO: Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the secretary-general of the Arab League, has praised a peace plan presented by Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris to the United Nations Security Council earlier this week. Gheit said on Wednesday that the 22-member league backed the recently unveiled initiative, which calls for a ceasefire …

Kashipur Dec 25 (PMI) With a resolve to build a united, strong, and harmonious India, the Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) completed 23 years of its journey and entered its 24th year. On the occasion of its Foundation Day, MRM workers visited the cow shelter located at Drona Sagar in Kashipur …

Hyderabad, December 25 (Najaf ali Shoukat-PMI): On the occasion of the death anniversary of internationally renowned noha reciter Mir Sabir Ali Zawar, founder of Anjuman-e-Masumeen and Arz-e-Deccan, a Majlis-e-Aza of Syed-ush-Shuhada (AS) will be organised for the Isal-e-Sawaab (conveyance of spiritual reward) of the departed soul. The Majlis will be …

25-12-2025 MADRID: Spain’s Christmas lottery has been welcomed as an “injection of hope” in the northwest of the country, where the jackpot handed out hundreds of millions of euros just months after wildfires had caused devastation. Most of the first-prize-winning tickets in the lottery, known as El Gordo, had been …

25-12-2025 SYDNEY: Australia’s most populous state is set to pass tougher gun laws, ban the display of terrorist symbols and curb protests in an emergency sitting following the Bondi mass shooting, as authorities stepped up their response to the anti-Semitic attack. Fifteen people were killed and dozens injured in the …

25-12-2025 BEIJING: China on Tuesday urged the United States to fulfil its nuclear disarmament responsibilities after a draft Pentagon report said China was likely to have loaded more than 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles in sites near the Mongolian border and showed no desire for arms control talks. “As a super …