International

25-10-2021 BHUBANESWAR, ODISHA: A 17-year-old man in India’s Odisha has been arrested by police after he sold off his young wife to a 55-year-old man to buy a cellular phone. According to a report by The Hindustan Times, the teenager, who got married in July this year, found a job …

25-10-2021 ROME: For some people, going to prison can feel like escaping to freedom. A man under house arrest in Italy showed up at a police barracks asking to be put behind bars because life with his wife at home was unbearable, police said Sunday. The 30-year-old Albanian citizen living …

25-10-2021 DUBAI/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Captain Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan smashed unbeaten half-centuries as Pakistan crushed India by 10 wickets on Sunday to register their first win over their arch-rivals in a Twenty20 World Cup. Chasing 152 for victory, Babar (68) and Rizwan (79) took apart the Indian bowling …

24-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies DUBAI /KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan will shortly collapse into chaos unless the international community acts rapidly, Pakistani and Swedish ministers warned on Saturday. Afghanistan plunged into crisis after the Taliban drove out the Western-backed government in August triggering the abrupt end of …

24-10-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE/ CANBERRA: In a world racing to reduce pollution, Australia is a stark outlier. It is one of the dirtiest countries per head of population and a massive global supplier of fossil fuels. Unusually for a rich nation, it also still burns coal for most of its …

24-10-2021 ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan moved to expel the ambassadors of 10 Western countries who appealed for the release of a jailed civil society leader. Seven of the ambassadors represent Turkey’s NATO allies and the expulsions, if carried out, would open the deepest rift with the West in …

24-10-2021 RIYADH: One of the world’s largest oil producers, Saudi Arabia, announced it aims to reach “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2060, joining more than 100 countries in a global effort to try and curb man-made climate change. The announcement on Saturday, made by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman …

23-10-2021 By SJA Jafri LAHORE/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Dozens of cops and people have been killed and injured while hundreds detained in clashes between protesters and members of a religious cum political party during last two days while the panic and fear also spread across Pakistan, sources and victims told PMI. …

23-10-2021 RIO GRANDE/ WASHINGTON: The US says more than 1.7 million migrants were detained along its border with Mexico in the past 12 months, the highest number ever recorded. More than one million of them were expelled to Mexico or their native countries, according to data from US Customs and …

23-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Al-Jazeera ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Thousands of Pakistani and Afghani journalists, media workers and outlets are at high risk of Taliban, Daesh, ISIS, ISIL and many other terrorist organizations not only because of neutralism but also due to reporting against these extremists or without their permission, sources …