JoJo Siwa’s pride party was raided by paramedics and police after a guest had a drug overdose. According to TMZ, a 911 call was made at 8pm after a male, about 30-years-old, had overdosed on LSD. Paramedics and police had arrived at the scene and transported the victim to a hospital for treatment. His condition remains to be unknown, the outlet …

Kim Kardashian has receiving criticism over disrespecting the Hindu community. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star had posted a series of sultry snaps from her latest photoshoot one of which featured her lounging on a bed with a sheer red outfit on. The photos irked fans as they spotted the KKW Beauty founder wearing oversized silver earrings that had the “om” symbol in …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday underscored the need for closer trilateral cooperation between Islamabad, Kabul and Beijing for peace and stability in Afghanistan and the region. “We should, therefore, explore how our three neighbourly countries can work together to deal with the evolving situation in an effective manner and steer it towards achieving our shared objective of lasting peace and stability …

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has urged the United Nations to urgently set up a global mechanism to coordinate efforts against corruption. Addressing a UN debate on corruption on Wednesday evening, Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Munir Akram called upon the world body to take immediate and robust actions to stop corruption. “I am convinced that corruption, which leads to massive outflow of illicit …

YANGON: A shadow government in Myanmar on Thursday called on the Rohingya minority to help it overthrow the junta, promising citizenship and repatriation for the persecuted Muslim community in a future democratic Myanmar. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military overthrew democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) government in a February 1 …

TEHRAN: Iran on Thursday slammed the United Nations’ decision to suspend its voting rights for failing to pay its dues as “fundamentally flawed, entirely unacceptable and completely unjustified”. Tehran argues that the $16.2 million it owes to the UN is the result of Washington’s crippling sanctions, imposed after former president Donald Trump in 2018 unilaterally withdrew the US from a …

JERUSALEM: A party representing Arab citizens of Israel has for the first time joined an Israeli coalition to form a government, but many doubt the move can end decades of political marginalisation. Arab Israeli Mansour Abbas, the head of the conservative Islamic Raam party, on Wednesday signed onto an eleventh-hour deal hoping to oust the country’s longest-serving premier, Benjamin Netanyahu. …

LONDON: Senior aides to Queen Elizabeth II barred the hiring of “coloured immigrants or foreigners” in office roles at Buckingham Palace until at least the late 1960s, a media report said on Thursday. The Queen and Britain’s royal household also negotiated an exemption from 1970s-era laws on race and sex discrimination that still exists today, The Guardian reported. Citing historical papers it …

LONDON: Like thousands of Afghan translators who served with Nato forces, Nazir Ahmad fears for his life as the US-led alliance scrambles to pull out of the country in the coming weeks. “The situation is deteriorating now as foreign forces leave,” he said in Kabul. “We are scared of the insurgents. They know our faces.” Afghans who worked for international …

NEW DELHI: Days after India abstained at the UN Human Rights Council on a resolution proposing to set up a Commission of Inquiry into violations related to Israel’s recent bombardment of Gaza, the foreign minister of the Palestinian National Authority has complained that New Delhi’s abstention “stifles the important work of… advancing human rights for all peoples, including those of …