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The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as “a massive project” with “immense potential,” can help accelerate efforts to achieve the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Ghada Waly, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), said in a recent interview with Xinhua. Waly is…

Historians will hail the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as “something of significance for our era,” Robert Lawrence Kuhn, chairman of the Kuhn Foundation, has said. “Historians 1,000 years from now will look back and will circle the Belt and Road Initiative as something of significance for our era…

The UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordination Office says death toll due to Israel’s merciless bombardments in Gaza has continued to rise. In a statement, the UN agency said more than 260,000 people have been displaced since the start of the current conflict and numbers are rising fast. Similarly, WFP and other…

The 27th meeting of Council of Ministers of Economic Cooperation Organization has concluded in in Shusha, Azerbaijan. The Meeting reviewed the status of activities of the ECO and approved some fresh proposals. The meeting adopted “Shusha Declaration” that focuses on enhanced regional cooperation amongst the Member States. The declaration also…

Israel has mobilized 360,000 reservists and likely to launch a ground offensive into Gaza where hospitals ran low on supplies and an imminent power blackout. Airstrikes have smashed entire city blocks to rubble and left unknown numbers of bodies beneath mounds of debris. Israel has stopped the entry of food,…

Reactions have been pouring in following the ongoing battle between Palestinian resistance groups in the besieged Gaza Strip and Israeli military. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry posted a statement on X, calling for an ‘immediate halt to the escalation of the conflict.’ The Persian Gulf Cooperation Council meanwhile urged an immediate…

Over 300 Palestinians have been martyred in unabated Israeli air strikes on Gaza strip since yesterday. Palestinian health officials said 20 children were among at least 313 civilians martyred. They said nearly 2,000 people were wounded. Israeli air strikes battered Gaza overnight smashing buildings, and the houses in dense populated…

Organization of Islamic Corporation has expressed deep concern on dangerous Israeli escalation in Occupied Palestinian territory. The General Secretariat in a statement said that Israel’s impunity has encouraged it to persist in its policy which in their entirety amount to war crime against humanity. The statement stressed for providing international…

The Israeli death toll has risen to 40 as Hamas’s “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” rages on in the Jewish state, while Palestinians are celebrating the highly coordinated assault, which totally blindsided Tel Aviv as a major victory in their fight for freedom, according to Arab media Earlier, Hamas commandos attacked southern…

The United States has thanked Qatar for help in mediating a landmark prisoner swap deal with Iran. During a telephonic conversation, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Than and US President Joe Biden discussed strategic ties and ways to bolster them in a range of fields. In a statement, the…

India has been ranked among five most dangerous countries in terms of press freedom and journalists’ security. According to international media, crackdowns against journalists on one pretext or another to suppress their freedom of speech have become order of the day in India. In a recent such move, New Delhi…

Afghanistan embassy in New Delhi has announced to close its operations in New Delhi. In a statement the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in New Delhi has announced the decision to cease its operations, effective today. The statement said the decision has been taken due to lack of…

In Iraq, one hundred and thirteen people have been killed and more that 150 others injured in a fire at a wedding function in Nineveh province. Iraq’s civil defence said initial reports indicate that fireworks used during the wedding ceremony may have caused the blaze that destoryed the building made…

A US-based think tank, “Hindutva Watch” has revealed that BJP-led Modi government has used anti-Muslim hate speech incidents for election gains in the first half of this year. In it’s report, the Hindutva Watch said there are two hundred and fifty five documented incidents of hate speech targeting Muslims mostly…

China will work together with Egypt to implement the important consensus reached by the two countries’ heads of state and consolidate political mutual trust, said a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) during his visit to Egypt. According to Xinhua Li Xi, a member of the Standing…

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the withdrawal of its ambassador and troops from Niger in the wake of the July coup. In a televised interview, Macron said our ambassador and diplomatic staff will be home in hours while 1,500 French troops stationed in Niger would withdraw in the months…

In Azerbaijan, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev in Nakhchivan today to discuss matters of mutual interests. The two sides will discuss opening of a land corridor linking the two countries, the situation in Karabakh region and supply of natural gas from Azerbaijan to…

Canadian High Commission in New Delhi has urged the Indian government to ensure the security of its diplomats under Vienna convention following the threats received by them from extremist Hindus on the social media. According to details, the Canadian government is also considering reducing its staff in India due to…

Pakistan says the news of Indian involvement in an extrajudicial killing in Canada has shown that India’s network of extra-territorial killings has now gone global. Responding to a question at her weekly media briefing in Islamabad today, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said for decades, Indian intelligence agency RAW…

The death toll after catastrophic flooding in Libya’s eastern city of Derna has climbed to 11,300. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, over 10,000 people are still missing in devastated city. According to the UN update the flooding took an additional 170 lives outside…

In Libya, the death toll from the devastated floods in Derna city has reached five thousand and two hundred while thousands of people are still missing. The Ministry of Interior said the death toll is feared to rise further as the recovery operations continue in the worst hit areas.