Islamabad, 21 March 2019 (The News-APP) Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammad left for his homeland on Saturday on the conclusion of his three-day official visit to Pakistan. Prime Minister Imran Khan saw off the Malaysian leader at the Nur Khan Airbase. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Minister for Planning Makhdoom Khurso Balhtiar and other...

Islamabad, 22 March 2019 (Media reports) "You say things which other Muslim leaders are scared to say. And it's because a lot of them are not leaders. They are office-holders. Leaders are the ones who have an ideology, who have a clear stand on moral issues, and who take positions. Unfortunately, non-leaders do not take...

Islamabad Pictures Xinhua News Pakistan National Day Celebrations Rehearsal by Chinese Air Force Aerobatic Team   J-10 fighter jets of China's Bayi Aerobatic Team perform during the rehearsal of the Pakistan National Day army parade in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, March 18, 2019. Pakistan National Day, also known as Pakistan Resolution Day or Republic Day...

The Hague, March 18 (Xinhua) The man suspected of shooting three people dead and injuring five others on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday morning has been arrested, local police said. The arrest coincided with the conclusion of a joint press conference held by Utrecht Mayor, Jan van Zanen, the public...

14 March 2019, AlJazeera News The United States no longer refers to the Golan Heights as an "Israeli-occupied" territory in its latest annual human rights report, published on Wednesday, though the State Department insists the wording change doesn't mean a policy change. The report now calls the area the "Israeli-controlled Golan Heights". When asked about...

JAkarta, 15 March 2019 (Reuters) Political and Islamic leaders expressed their disgust at the deadly shooting at two mosques in New Zealand on Friday, with some citing rising “Islamophobia” as responsible. As governments in Asia and the Middle East scrambled to find out how many of their citizens had been caught up in the bloodshed...

NZ Journalism, newsroom, 15 March 2019 The Prime Minister will be questioning her security and intelligence agencies as to how people with extreme ideologies managed to carry out an unprecedented terror attack on New Zealand soil. On Friday afternoon, gunmen open fired on two mosques  in Christchurch. By 0700 pm, 40 people were confirmed dead –...

Ankara/Melbourne, 15 March 2019 (Anadolu News) The death toll from twin Masajid (mosques) attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, climbed to 49, according to the New Zeland Herald. Earlier New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put the number at 40. Ardern said her country is treating the shootings as a "terrorist incident". “There is no place in New Zealand for...

Bogota, Colombia by Daniel Salgar Antolinez (Editor Anadolu Spanish News) 05 March 2019 On January 23 the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, invoked articles 233, 333 and 350 of the Constitution and proclaimed himself interim president of the country. Then he began leading a strategy to end Nicolas Maduro’s government, calling the...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (AP-Yahoo) 1:50 p.m. A spokesman for Ethiopian Airlines says the among the dead in the crash Sunday are 32 Kenyans and 17 Ethiopians. Asrat Begashaw said that 31 other nationalities were also among those on board the new Boeing 737-8 MAX plane that crashed, killing all the 157 people thought to be...