Pakistan stock exchange attacked by armed men
Two security guards and police officer killed in Karachi attack, and four attackers killed Gunmen have attacked the Pakistan stock exchange in Karachi, killing two security guards and a police… »
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Another US visa holder was denied entry over someone else’s messages
It has been one week since U.S. border officials denied entry to a 17-year-old Harvard freshman just days before classes were set to begin. Ismail Ajjawi, a Palestinian student living… »
Kashmir travel restrictions partly eased but phones and web still blocked
India’s Muslim-majority state, with phones and internet blocked, cannot tell the world what is happening There were signs that travel restrictions in Indian-administered Kashmir were partly relaxed on Saturday in… »
Hamza bin Laden, son of Osama bin Laden, believed dead – reports
US reported to have had a hand in death of heir to al-Qaida ‘sometime in past two years’ Osama bin Laden’s son, Hamza, who was trying to lead an al-Qaida… »
Britain’s ethnic pay gap: workers of Bangladeshi heritage paid least
First official statistics for Great Britain also reveal London has largest ethnic pay gap Workers of Pakistani or Bangladeshi heritage have the lowest median hourly pay of any ethnic group,… »
Home Office finally allows stranded mother and baby home from Pakistan
Visa decision overturned for British resident Nina Saleh, 48 hours after Guardian and others published her story A woman who was refused a visa to return to London after travelling… »
Himalayan glacier melting doubled since 2000, spy satellites show
Ice losses indicate ‘devastating’ future for region and 1 billion people who depend on it for water The melting of Himalayan glaciers has doubled since the turn of the century,… »
Mother and baby stranded in Pakistan: claims of Home Office ‘negligence’
British resident Nina Saleh unable to return home with adopted baby after being refused visa three times A Norwegian woman who has lived in Britain for 20 years says she… »
Uber is paying $3.1BN to pick up Middle East rival Careem
After months and months of rumors it’s finally been confirmed that ride-hailing giant Uber is picking up its Middle East rival Careem in an acquisition deal worth $3.1 billion —… »
It’s time to disrupt nuclear weapons
Beatrice Fihn Contributor Share on Twitter Beatrice Fihn is the executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. “Atomic… »
Bodies of Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi found in Himalayas
Men went missing almost a fortnight ago while ascending mountain in Pakistan The bodies of Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi, the British and Italian climbers who went missing a fortnight… »
Tom Ballard: search party to be flown in to help find missing British mountaineer
Ballard and his Italian climbing partner Daniele Nardi had been climbing Naga Parbat A search for a British climber missing on the world’s ninth-highest mountain is poised to resume after… »
India launches airstrikes on Pakistan across disputed Kashmir border
Attack an act of ‘extreme valour’, says minister, after first clash of its kind since the countries went to war in 1971 India has carried out aerial bombing over the… »
A third of Himalayan ice cap doomed, finds report
Even radical climate change action won’t save glaciers, endangering 2 billion people At least a third of the huge ice fields in Asia’s towering mountain chain are doomed to melt… »
Asia Bibi: Pakistan’s top court upholds blasphemy acquittal
Christian woman who spent eight years on death row now free to leave country Pakistan’s top court has upheld the acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death… »
TikTok parent ByteDance sues Chinese news site that exposed fake news problem
There’s worrying news from China’s online media world as ByteDance, the $75 billion company behind popular video app TikTok is taking a news site to court for alleged defamation after… »
Asia Bibi’s husband pleads for family asylum in UK after blasphemy acquittal
Pakistan government accused of signing death warrant by blocking Christian woman from leaving the country The husband of a Pakistani Christian woman acquitted on charges of blasphemy has begged Theresa… »
Pakistan works to stop Asia Bibi leaving after blasphemy protests
Administration accused of signing Bibi’s ‘death warrant’ in deal with hardliners Pakistan’s government has been accused of signing the “death warrant” of Asia Bibi after it said it would begin… »
Asia Bibi: Pakistan court overturns blasphemy death sentence
Christian woman to be freed after being sentenced in 2010, accused of insulting the prophet Muhammad Pakistan’s supreme court has struck down the death sentence for blasphemy handed down to… »
Official figures show 4,422 people tested positive in past 24 hours, the highest daily total since 8 May Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Daily coronavirus cases… »
Two dead, one missing and nearly a thousand rescued as floods damage Thessaly After pounding parts of western and central Greece meteorologists have predicted a rare Mediterranean hurricane is headed… »
