Police in Indian occupied Kashmir said on Saturday that 21 people were arrested for disturbing public order by expressing solidarity with Palestinians and holding protests against Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. Police said in a statement they were keeping a “close watch on elements who are attempting to leverage the unfortunate situation in Palestine to disturb public peace and order” …

Pakistan has urged the international community to take measures to end the massacre in Gaza being conducted by Israeli forces, in an emergency meeting held by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi  was addressing the meeting where he lambasted Israel for its tyrannical measures, which include bombing Gaza and killing scores of innocent …

US President Joe Biden on Saturday expressed his “strong support” to Israel in a phone call with Prime Minister Netanyahu, saying that Israel had the right to “defend itself” against Hamas and other groups in the country. The American president called Netanyahu and the Palestinian president, speaking to both as violence between Israel and Palestine continued, claiming the lives of …

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was “dismayed” by civilian casualties in Gaza and “deeply disturbed” by Israel´s strike on a building containing international media outlets, a spokesman said Saturday in response to reporters´ questions. The comments came as Israel pummeled the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, killing 10 members of an extended family and demolishing the 13-floor Gaza building housing …

LONDON: Thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians on Saturday in major European cities including London, Berlin, Madrid and Paris, as Israel continued the worst violence in years against Palestinians in Gaza. In London, several thousand protesters carrying placards reading “Stop Bombing Gaza” and chanting “Free Palestine” converged on Marble Arch, near the British capital’s Hyde Park, to march …

An infant has miraculously survived after being pulled from rubble after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza and has been reunited with his father. The child, identified only as Omar, was rescued early Saturday morning from a destroyed house at Al-Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza. 10 family members including eight children and two women of the family died in the Israeli …

YANGON: If you need cash in Myanmar, you have to get up early. Queues start forming outside banks at 4am, where the first 15 or 30 customers are given a plastic token that will allow them to enter the bank when it opens at 9:30am and withdraw cash, according to more than a dozen people who spoke to Reuters. If …

KABUL: Negotiators from the Afghan government and Taliban teams met on Friday to discuss speeding up stalled peace talks, officials from both sides said, as a deadly mosque blast shattered the calm of a holiday ceasefire in Afghanistan. In a telephone conversation with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Saturday, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi highlighted Pakistan’s efforts to end …

Police are reaching out to villagers in northern India to investigate the recovery of bodies buried in shallow sand graves or washing up on the Ganges River banks, prompting speculation on social media that they were the remains of Covid-19 victims. In jeeps and boats, the police used portable loudspeakers with microphones asking people not to dispose of the bodies in rivers. …

Israel bombed the home of Hamas’s chief in Gaza early on Sunday and sirens warning of rocket attacks sounded in Israeli border towns shortly after dawn as hostilities stretched into a seventh day with no sign of abating. At least 153 people have been killed in Gaza since Monday, including 42 children, health officials said. Israel has reported 10 dead, …