PESHAWAR: Tremors were felt in Shangla, Kalam and other areas of Khyber Paktunkhwa in result of a 4.4 magnitude earthquake on Saturday. The National Seismic Monitoring center said the earthquake struck at the depth of 15 kilometers with its epicenter lying 50 kilometers northeast of Kalam. No loss of life and property so far was reported from the affected areas. …

A US Senator was denied entry this week into Occupied Kashmir during his visit to India, according to The Washington Post. The newspaper reported that Senator Chris Van Hollen is part of a group of US Senators who have expressed serious concern over the alarming human rights situation in occupied Kashmir, which has been under a military curfew since August …

ISTANBUL/BEIRUT: Turkey will mount a military operation in northeast Syria, it said on Saturday, after accusing Washington of not doing enough to expel Syrian Kurdish fighters from its border.The air and ground operation east of the Euphrates river in Syria could start at any time, President Tayyip Erdogan said. The US-backed force which controls the region, the Syrian Democratic Forces …

He was supposed to be touting his tough stance on crime but Canadian opposition leader Andrew Scheer found himself on the back foot Friday as his announcement was overshadowed by questions over his dual nationality. The Conservative, who is aiming to unseat Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in the October 21 election, has been on the defensive since disclosing Thursday …

US Senator Elizabeth Warren raised concern over the recent events in occupied Kashmir, urging India to respect the rights of Kashmiris. In a tweet, the US senator shared an AFP article regarding misery of Kashmiris in Indian occupied Kashmir. She said that the US-India partnership has always been rooted in shared democratic values, adding:” I’m concerned about recent events in …

LONDON: Britain has urged the United States to “reconsider” allowing the wife of an American diplomat to leave the country after she became a police suspect in a fatal road crash. British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he had raised the case directly with the US ambassador to London Woody Johnson, after American officials reportedly allowed the woman to flee …

NEW YORK: A homeless man wielding a metal pipe beat four other homeless people to death Saturday in New York, police said. A fifth man was hospitalized in a critical condition. Police detained a 24-year-old male as the suspect in the attack in the Chinatown area of Lower Manhattan in the small hours of Saturday. The victims were apparently asleep …

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation suspending entry of immigrants who will not be covered by health insurance within 30 days of entering the United States or do not have the means to pay for their healthcare costs themselves. The proclamation, issued by the White House, said it would not affect any individual’s eligibility for asylum …

STOCKHOLM: North Korea and the United States walked away on Saturday with opposing assessments of nuclear talks in Sweden, which Pyongyang said broke down but Washington called “good discussions.” The United States accepted host Sweden´s invitation to resume talks in two weeks´ time, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said. The discussions followed months of stalemate after a February meeting between …

OUAGADOUGOU: Around 20 people were killed in an attack on a gold mining site in northern Burkina Faso, security sources said Saturday, the latest in a spate of violence generally blamed on a jihadist insurgency. The attack on Friday took place in Soum province not far from where alleged jihadists blew up a bridge linking two northern towns in mid-September. …