Turkish actor Engin Altan Duzyatan’s wife Neslişah Alkoçlar, who is an avid social media user, thrilled fans with a sweet video wherein he can be seen enjoying quality time with two-year-old daughter Alara. In the video Engin aka Ertugrul’s daughter Alara can be seen painting dad’s beard with colours and he is enjoying the lovely moments. The video has gone …

ISLAMABAD: The capital on Saturday reported over 700 Covid-19 cases for the third time since the outbreak of the pandemic in March last year with the positivity rate hitting 10.74pc. Besides, two patients succumbed to the infection. Officials of the capital administration said 709 cases were reported which were the second highest during the third wave. On the other hand, …

ISTANBUL: Several thousand women took to the streets in Istanbul on Saturday to demand Turkey reverses its decision to withdraw from an international treaty against domestic abuse which it once championed. President Tayyip Erdogan stunned European allies with last week’s announcement that Turkey was pulling out of the Istanbul Convention, named after the Turkish city where it was drafted in …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned the government officers in Balochistan that strict action will be taken against them if they do not attend official meetings related to public welfare. The warning has been issued by the prime minister through a letter after receiving complaints in this regard, says an official announcement on Saturday. The complaint was formally lodged …

Facebook said its services in Bangladesh were shut down on Saturday, as hundreds of protesters affiliated with religio-political parties marched across the country, angered by the police killing of their supporters who had protested against a visit by Indian premier Narendra Modi. The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina did not comment if it had blocked Facebook and its messenger app, but …

TEHRAN: Iran and China signed a 25-year “strategic cooperation pact” on Saturday in the latest expansion of Beijing’s flagship trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative as the US rivals build closer ties. Negotiations for the deal, launched five years ago, sparked controversy in Iran last year and virtually no details of its contents have been released. China is Iran’s leading trade …

CAIRO: Hopes rose on Saturday that a mega-ship blocking Egypt’s Suez Canal could be refloated within days, even as the crisis forced companies to consider re-routing vessels around the southern tip of Africa. The president of Shoei Kisen — the Japanese firm which owns the giant container vessel — said it could be freed from the canal bed later on …

YANGON: As Myanmar’s military celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day holiday with a parade on Saturday in the country’s capital, soldiers and police elsewhere killed 114 people, including children, in a brutal crackdown on pro-demo­cracy protesters, news rep­orts and witnesses said. The killings drew strong renewed criticism from western countries. British Ambassador Dan Chugg said the security forces had “disgraced …

PARIS: France, Belgium and Poland on Saturday tightened curbs as coronavirus cases surged in Europe while the Philippines prepared for a giant lockdown and Chile confined over 80 percent of its population. France has admitted that the situation is “critical” and added three more departments to the 16 already under tight restrictions. Around 20 million people in France, including those …

DHAKA: At least five people were shot dead as police clashed with demonstrators in Bangladesh on Saturday, a day after clashes between police and hardline protesters against a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi left another five dead. The violence, which began on Friday at the main mosque in the capital Dhaka, rocked several key districts in the country. …