ADEN: The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has redeployed troops to the Marib region and increased air strikes to try to repel an advance by the Houthi group, sources in the military and the internationally recognised government said. Fighting in the gas-producing region has escalated as the Houthis try to take Marib city, the government’s last stronghold in the north …

China’s military on Friday named four soldiers killed in a brawl with Indian forces last year, the first confirmation of deaths by Beijing from the border clash that also killed at least 20 Indian soldiers. The Chinese soldiers “sacrificed themselves” during the June confrontation in the contested Galwan Valley border area with an unnamed “foreign military”, the defence ministry said. India …

WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department charged three North Korean military intelligence officials on Wednesday in a campaign of cyberattacks to steal $1.3 billion in crypto and traditional currencies from banks and other targets. The first action against Pyongyang by President Joe Biden’s administration took aim at what the department called “a global campaign of criminality” being waged by North Korea. …

JERUSALEM: Jerusa­lem woke up to the rare experience of seeing its holy sites covered in snow on Thursday, with the Dome of the Rock and the Western Wall under a layer of white after an overnight snowstorm. Before dawn children were up hurling snowballs at each other outside the Old City gates, as the faithful trudged to sites holy to …

The 30-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) has deferred their decision on whether to withdraw all foreign troops from Afghanistan by May 1, as required by the peace agreement between the United States and Taliban. But hours before Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced the decision at a virtual news conference on Thursday afternoon, the US assured Afghan President Ashraf Ghani …

Two UN human rights experts have voiced their concern over India’s decision to revoke occupied Kashmir’s autonomy and enact laws that could curtail the political participation of Muslims and other minorities. The statement by Fernand de Varennes, Special Rapporteur on minority issues, and Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, was released on Thursday as diplomats from nearly two …

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of IT and Telecom has written a letter to all federal secretaries, asking them to shift websites of their respective ministries and attached departments to the main data centre of the National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) to protect their data and websites from possible cyber attacks. The IT ministry has also asked the government departments to shift to …

• Providing absolute secrecy to Senate vote to encourage illegal means, observes judge • PPP wants Attorney General to explain ‘bribery, horse-trading allegations’ ISLAMABAD: Advocate General for Sindh Salman Talibuddin told the Supreme Court on Thursday that an answer to the question put before it through the presidential reference in the affirmative would lead to amending the Constitution. “Article 226 …

TAXILA: At least seven passengers on board a bus lost their lives while 17 others were injured as a speeding trailer crashed into a bus on Fatehjang-Khor road in the jurisdiction of Fatehjang police station on Thursday. According to District Emergency Officer Dr Ishfaq Mian, an empty trailer while over taking another vehicle near Galli Jagir rammed into a Rawalpindi-bound …

RAWALPINDI: Police have started using drones and other cameras to trace violators of the ban on kite flying and selling. A police spokesman said a case will also be registered against the owner of the house and building which were spotted being used for kite-flying. He said the police have decided to launch a crackdown on Basant celebrations by monitoring …