Health workers walk on snow during a polio vaccination drive in Pakistan-administered Kashmirâs Neelum Valley. File | Photo Credit: AFP Pakistani authorities have confirmed two new poliovirus cases, one each in Sindh and Punjab provinces, posing a setback to the countryâs efforts to eradicate the crippling disease, according to a media report. The new cases…
Rose Girone was believed to be the oldest Holocaust survivor | Photo Credit: Facebook/@Rose Girone Rose Girone, believed to be the oldest living Holocaust survivor and a strong advocate for sharing survivors’ stories, has died. She was 113. Her death was confirmed Thursday by the Claims Conference, a New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims…
A vehicle carrying the Russian delagation arrives at the residence of the U.S. Consul General in Istanbul, Turkey, on February 27, 2025 | Photo Credit: Reuters Russian and U.S. diplomats met in Istanbul on Thursday (February 27, 2025) to discuss normalising the operation of their respective embassies after years expelling each others’ diplomats. Kremlin spokesman…
Henk Slebos. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Henk Slebos, one of the major contributors to Pakistanâs clandestine nuclear network that subsequently came to be known as AQ Khan network has passed away, confirmed his close friend and Dutch investigative journalist Marcel van Silfhout. Slebos joined Technische Hogeschool (TU Delft) in 1964. A brilliant student from the…
The military services have 30 days to figure out how they will seek out and identify transgender service members to remove them from the force â a daunting task that may end up relying on troops self-reporting or tattling on their colleagues. A memo sent to Defense Department leaders on Thursday (February 27, 2025) â…
Representational image of a seismograph recording an earthquake. | Photo Credit: Reuters A strong earthquake of 6.1 magnitude was felt near Nepalâs Kathmandu early Friday (February 28, 2025) morning. However, there was no immediate report of any damage or causality from the earthquake. An earthquake measuring 6.1 Magnitude in Richter scale was recorded along Kodari…
Elizabeth Turner-Nichols, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 2110, middle, is interviewed outside of a federal courthouse between Luz Fuller, left, and Alfonzo Little after a federal judge found the mass firings of probationary employees were likely unlawful in San Francisco, on February 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP A federal judge in…
Britainâs Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands at a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House Thursday, February 27, 2025 | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump said Thursday (February 27, 2025) that talks to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are âvery well advanced” but…
U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer attend a press conference at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 27, 2025 | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump held out the prospect of a âgreatâ post-Brexit trade deal that could avoid tariffs on Britain on Thursday (February 27, 2025) â…
Negotiations between Israel and Hamas on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire began on Thursday (February 27, 2025) in the Egyptian capital, Egypt said, averting a collapse ahead of Saturday’s (March 1, 2025) expiration of the agreement’s first phase. Officials from Israel, Qatar and the United States started âintensive discussionsâ on the ceasefire accord’s…
