The global economy is at “a critical juncture”, with some economies thriving and expanding, while others falter and slow down, the UN’s trade and development body said on Wednesday.
The World Bank’s report, Pakistan Human Capital Review (HCR), Building Capabilities Throughout Life, underlines the need for Pakistan to significantly increase investments in human capital to address the severe gaps it faces in education and health outcomes particularly.
The Afghanistan Embassy in Islamabad has said Pakistani police have detained more than a thousand Afghan migrants in the last two weeks, media reports said.
Exiled Kashmiris from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) recently gathered around the Pakistani Consulate in the United Kingdom's Bradford city to demonstrate against the violations of human rights by the country's security forces.
Kabul/UNI: At least two people including a 12-year-old child were killed and at least one was injured as a result of a shooting at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the Pakistani Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said Wednesday.
London: As many as 55 Chinese soldiers, including the captain and 21 officers, onboard Chinese nuclear-powered submarine 093-417 were killed after a catastrophic failure poisoned the crew on August 21, UK-based The Times has reported citing leaked British intelligence reports.
A Christian school in Jinshui district of China was recently raided by authorities and even directed to cease operations, media reports said.
Pokhara Regional International Airport, a project which was created with financial support from China, is facing several operational challenges that are disrupting normal flight service.
The Pakistani government's direction to Afghanistan asylum seekers to leave the nation by November has triggered widespread criticism.
The U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, Armed Forces of the Philippines joined allies to commence the seventh iteration of exercise Sama Sama in the city of Manila, Philippines on Monday over territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated 28 individuals and entities involved with the international proliferation of illicit drugs, including a China-based network responsible for the manufacturing and distribution of ton quantities of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and MDMA precursors.
Continuing violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations, a UN-appointed independent expert said on Tuesday.
UN engagement with Haiti will continue ahead of the deployment of an international support mission backing beleaguered police who are fighting rampant gang violence, the UN chief’s Spokesperson told journalists on Tuesday.
New York: Independent UN human rights experts are warning that there is “an overwhelming risk” atrocity crimes “will continue” in Ethiopia. in a new report released on Tuesday.
A hunger emergency is looming for scores of South Sudanese families fleeing the war in Sudan, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday.
The Enforcement Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission, which authorises space-based telecom services, has announced a settlement of its investigation into DISH for failure to properly deorbit itsEchoStar-7 satellite.
At least 21 passengers, including two children, died after a bus crashed off a flyover near the Italian city of Venice and caught fire, media reports said.
Kevin McCarthy was removed as the speaker of the US House of Representatives, the first such incident in the history of the country, in a rebellion by far-right Republicans who were furious at his cooperation with Democrats.
Bangkok/UNI: Three people were killed and four injured in a shooting incident allegedly by an underage gunman at the Siam Paragon Mall in Bangkok on Tuesday, Thai media reported, citing police.
A 13-year-old Christian boy, who was identified as Johnson, along with his father Nasir Masih, and other family members, were held by the Faisalabad Police to record their alleged false testimony against Pastor Eliezer.
Halloween may be a few weeks away but people in the country already seem to be in the mood for festivity.
A former Google employee has claimed she was laid off from the company while she was on maternity leave after serving the tech major for 12 years.
At least three people were killed during a shooting incident inside a luxury shopping mall in Thailand's capital city Bangkok on Tuesday.
In what is being hailed as an historic first, the UN Security Council on Monday authorized the deployment of an international security force to help Haiti’s national police quell surging gang violence and restore security across the strife-torn Caribbean nation.
With people on the move globally at “unprecedented” levels, the UN’s new migration agency chief insisted on Monday that rather than being a problem, host countries should recognize that migrants are what their economies most need to thrive.
Mexico has made significant progress in combatting arbitrary detention in recent years, but the battle to end the practice is far from over the Human Rights Council-appointed independent panel working on the issue said on Monday.
A North Dakota state senator, his wife and their two young children died after a plane in which they were travelling crashed in Utah region of the USA, media reports said.
The death toll from a church roof collapse in the Mexican city of Ciudad Madero has risen to almost 10 with 60 being injured, the regional department of the Mexican Secretariat of Public Security said on Monday.
Awami National Party (ANP) provincial council member Javed Khan was recently shot dead in Pakistan's Swabi region by unidentified motorcyclists.
The Federal Investigation Agency offloaded 16 alleged beggars in the disguise of Umrah pilgrims from Saudi Arabia-bound flight at Multan airport recently.
