American supermodel Kim Kardashian was recently accused of exploiting Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal exit to fill her pockets. The star of Keeping Up with the Kardashians recently released a game that mirrors the story of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their recent departure from their lives as working royals. The game features the characters of a prince named …

MINSK: Belarus’s regime was increasingly isolated on Tuesday as Europe cut air links and calls grew for stronger action over its diversion of an airliner and arrest of a dissident on board. After weathering a wave of protests and Western sanctions last year, President Alexander Lukashenko faced extraordinary new pressure over Sunday’s rerouting of the Ryanair flight to Minsk and …

Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged on a Middle East mission on Tuesday that Washington would provide new aid to help rebuild Gaza as part of efforts to bolster a ceasefire between its Hamas Islamist rulers and Israel. Hoping to reverse a move taken by former president Donald Trump that angered Palestinians, Blinken said the United States would advance the …

GENEVA: Muslim countries are calling on the United Nations to investigate possible crimes committed during the 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas and to establish command responsibility. The UN Human Rights Council will hold a special session on the latest conflict on Thursday, at the request of Pakistan, as coordinator of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and the state …

LE PECQ: Social media influencers in France with hundreds of thousands of followers say a mysterious advertising agency offered to pay them if they agreed to smear Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine with negative fake stories. French YouTuber Lo Grasset was among those contacted. He said on Tuesday that he was offered a potentially lucrative but also hush-hush deal to make bogus …

KABUL: Australia on Tuesday abruptly announced it will shutter its embassy in Afghanistan this week, expressing fears over the “increasingly uncertain security environment” in Kabul as foreign troops withdraw. The Taliban, who have ramped up violence across the country in recent weeks, reacted by saying they would provide a “safe environment” to diplomats and humanitarian organisations. The United States and …

WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force on Wednesday that experts say would compel the California-based Facebook unit to break privacy protections, sources said. The case, described to Reuters by people familiar with it, asks the Delhi High Court to declare that one of the new rules is a violation of …

The United States Department of Defence has said that it is discussing various options with Pakistan and other states in the region, including the potential for having bases there, but the talks remain inconclusive. At a recent congressional hearing, US Assistant Secretary of Defence for Indo-Pacific Affairs David F. Helvey told the Senate Armed Services Committee that “Pakistan has allowed us …

United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President Volkan Bozkir is expected to arrive in Pakistan today (Wednesday), on the invitation of Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs press release said. The UNGA president also tweeted about his departure to Pakistan.   He had initially announced his visit to Pakistan in a statement issued last week, ahead of an emergency UNGA …

A powerful cyclone destroyed tens of thousands of mud houses in eastern India on Wednesday, forcing the closure of the busiest regional airport in the city of Kolkata as it brought storm surges to coastal areas, the second such event within a week. Cyclone Yaas was packing gusts of up to 140kph (87 mph) as it hit land, authorities said, …