Pakistan Society of North Texas organized a prestigious event in honor of Pakistan Consulate General Houston Abrar Hashmi in the city of Dallas, Texas, in which a large number of social and business personalities of Dallas participated and Abrar Hashmi for his services. Tribute paid. Speaking at this prestigious event organized by President PSNT Abid…
Martin Griffiths, the head of the United Nations aid program, will visit the affected areas this week to assess the damage caused by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, speaking to reporters in New York, said that Martin Griffiths, the head of the United Nations Aid Program, will visit…
Seven people, including a two-year-old child, were killed in a gas explosion in a residential building in Siberia, Russia. According to the Ministry of Health of Siberia, the explosion occurred in a residential area of the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. Russia’s Investigative Committee has said that it has started an investigation into the incident and…
A 16-year-old employee of a restaurant in the US state of Massachusetts was shot after a customer gave him the wrong drink. The incident took place at the restaurant’s drive-thru on Tuesday, with police arriving shortly after the incident. The employee who was shot was taken to hospital where he is undergoing treatment. Police are…
The president and vice president of Taiwan donated one month’s salary to the earthquake victims. In this regard, the President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen says that we hope that the aid will be appreciated by the Turkish people. Taiwan’s prime minister and his deputy have also announced to donate one month’s salary. Taiwan’s government has…
America has imposed new sanctions against Iran. According to the US Treasury Department, the new US sanctions include 9 Iranian petrochemical companies. According to the announcement of the US Treasury Department from Washington, other companies related to Iran in Singapore and Malaysia are also included in the sanctions. Iranian companies covered by the sanctions cannot…
Preliminary criminal proceedings opened last May in Sicily against 21 people charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigration in connection with several search-and-rescue missions conducted between 2016 and 2017. Those accused include four crew members of the Iuventa, a former fishing trawler credited with saving some 14,000 migrant lives in the Mediterranean Sea, and human…
Across the continent, cases in January were 30 per cent higher than for the whole of last year. Most new infections and deaths have occurred in Malawi, which is facing its worst outbreak in 20 years. 10 countries affected Overall, 10 African countries are affected by cholera. The waterborne disease causes acute watery diarrhoea and…
Participants in a panel headlined, Challenges and Opportunities in Creating an Early Warning System for Global Pandemics, on Tuesday warned that we are witnessing the dismantling of essential infectious disease monitoring programmes, at a time when climate change is driving greater risks to public health. “Any platform will need to include data from outside of traditional…
“Violence continues to take a heavy toll on children’s lives in and around Port-au-Prince, and schools are no longer spared,” said Bruno Maes, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) representative in Haiti. “As children reel from the effects of armed violence, insecurity in Haiti shows no sign of abating.” ‘Huge impact’ on children “The targeting of…
