Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused the United States on Saturday of “savagery” after Washington imposed new sanctions on Tehran, and said Iranians should direct their anger at the White House. “The Americans have inflicted tens of millions of dollars of damage on Iran,” Rouhani said in televised remarks, his voice shaking with anger. “We haven’t [seen] such an extent of …

US reality TV star Kim Kardashian and her sisters Kylie, Khloe and Kendall Jenner looked unrecognizable in a throwback photo. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star turned to Instagram and shared a lovely throwback picture with her sisters with caption “Babies at Benihana.” In the dazzling photo, Kim could be seen flashing her smile at the camera as her sisters surround …

CHUGUIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday praised the only survivor of a military plane crash as the death toll climbed to 26, after another cadet died and three more bodies were found. Zelensky went to the scene of the tragedy near the northeastern city of Kharkiv where an Antonov An-26 transport plane carrying 20 air force cadets and seven …

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s premier-designate stepped down on Saturday, saying he had been unable to form a reform-minded government to lift the country out of its worst economic crisis in decades. Lebanon’s last government resigned in the aftermath of a colossal blast at Beirut’s port on August 4 that killed more than 190 people, wounded thousands and ravaged swathes of the capital. Since his …

GENEVA: Coronavirus deaths could more than double to two million without collective action against the pandemic, the World Health Organisation has warned, as Australia’s prime minister urged any nation that develops a vaccine to share it with the world. The number of cases worldwide has soared past 32 million, with deaths approaching one million, the global economy devastated, and major …

WASHINGTON: US Pres­ident Donald Trump is set to unveil his Supreme Court nominee on Saturday, barely five weeks out from the Nov 3 presidential election, with US media reporting that he has chosen conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett for the job. If the 48-year-old law professor is indeed nominated and confirmed, her lifetime appointment would consolidate a conservative majority in …

ISLAMABAD: Mushaal Hussein Mullick, chairperson of Peace and Culture Organisation, has called upon the United Nations to carry out an imp­a­­rtial and transparent judicial inqu­iry into the extrajudicial killing of Kash­miris in India-Occupied Kashmir (IOK). In a statement on Saturday, the wife of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik lashed out at Indian forces for killing innocent Kashmiris in fake …

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan on Saturday rejected India’s demand for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, saying there’s no place for a fasicst state in a sensitive decision-making body. Earlier in the day, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong pitch for a more prominent role in the UN Security Council, asking: “Till when do we have to …

PARIS: A Pakistan-born teenager has admitted to stabbing two people with a meat cleaver outside the former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, investigators said on Saturday, with nine people now detained. The 18-year-old said he wanted to avenge the republication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) by the satirical weekly, which in January 2015 was also targeted …

LAHORE/FAISALABAD: Former state minister and firebrand PML-N politician, Talal Chaudhry, was allegedly thrashed by unidentified people in Faisalabad on the night of Sept 23 and is currently being treated at a hospital in Lahore. Sources told Dawn that on Sept 23 midnight, Chaudhry had called police helpline 15 and reported a robbery in Abdullah Garden, Faisalabad. A few minutes later, PML-N MNA …