International

Agencies :Arab leaders have extended their best wishes and congratulations to Saudi Arabia and its citizens as the Kingdom gears to mark its 92nd National Day.Ahead of the National Day – marked on September 23 to commemorate the unification of the Kingdoms of Najd and Hijaz by King Abdulaziz in 1932 – Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, congratulated the Kingdom and its people under the leadership of...

BSS/AFP :A Chinese worker who tended to his injured colleagues following a deadly earthquake and then got lost in the mountains has been rescued 17 days later.The 6.6-magnitude quake struck southwestern Sichuan province earlier this month, killing at least 93 people and forcing thousands to be resettled into temporary camps.Gan Yu, an employee at Sichuan’s Wandong hydropower plant, was found alive but injured on Wednesday by a local villager, state-owned China National Radio (CNR) said, calling the rescue a “miracle...

Reuters :A convicted politician is liable to be disqualified for at least five years under Pakistani lawsFormer Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said sorry in a contempt of court case andpromised not to hurt the dignity of the judiciary, the court said, a concession that could avoid his disqualification from politics.The charges are related to a speech by Khan in which he allegedly threatened police and a female judge last month after one of his close aides was...

Al Jazeera :India’s top investigation agencies have conducted nationwide raids on a prominent Muslim organisation and detained more than 100 of its members, accusing them of having terror links.The simultaneous raids on the offices of the Popular Front of India (PFI) and homes of its members were conducted by the federally controlled National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in nearly a dozen states on Thursday morning.Most of the arrests were made in the southern states. In Kerala,...