George Clinton is keeping the funk alive on his birthday. The musician celebrated his day with a “small intimate crowd of friends and family” including some of his bandmembers, plus Snoop Dogg, Craig Robinson and pop star Kesha. “It was so unexpected to see Kesha. She had a huge oversized fedora and was rocking on the dance floor with everybody,” …

CANBERRA: Australia on Friday garnered enough international support to defer for two years an attempt by the United Nations cultural organisation to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status because of damage caused by climate change. Unesco had recommended that its World Heritage Committee add the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem off the northeast Australian coast to the World …

TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday warned residents of the drought-hit southwest not to give ammunition to the “enemy” after days of protests that have seen at least four killed. Khuzestan, Iran’s main oil-producing region and the wealthiest of the country’s 31 provinces, has been gripped by drought since March, with protests erupting in several towns and …

Sarah Shahi and boyfriend Adam Demos cannot stop gushing over each other. The duo, that recently did a top trending series on Netflix, does not shy away in expressing their affection towards each other off-screen. In Sarah’s recent Instagram Story, the diva dubbed Adam as her ‘soul’ “This man is my f–king soul,” she captioned alongside a smiling photo of …

GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid Khan has said that Delta virus, which is an Indian variant of coronavirus, is spreading in the region. Speaking at a press conference in Gilgit on Friday, he along with information minister Fatahullah Khan and law minister Syed Sohail Abbas said the positivity rate in GB was 8.5 per cent. Mr Khurshid Khan said …

BRUSSELS: The European Union on Friday warned Bosnian Serb leaders against denying the massacre at Srebrenica as a genocide after they opposed a ban on genocide denial instituted by UN’s representative in Bosnia. “Revisionism and the denial of genocides are in contradiction with the most fundamental European values,” said Nabila Massrali, spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell. “The …

MUZAFFARABAD: Terming July 25 as a test for the Kashmiris, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari asserted on Friday that his party was bound to clinch a sweeping victory if polls were held in a free, fair and transparent manner. Wrapping up the campaign of his party on return from the United States by addressing two big gatherings in …

LAHORE: The civil society is upset about ‘early’ release of Shah Hussain who is convicted for stabbing 23 times law student Khadija Siddiqui, from the jail as the government is being asked to explain the remissions extended to the convict. The rights activists and members of the civil society took to social media and condemned the release of the convict as a …

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to India next week, the State Department said on Friday, in the top US diplomat’s first visit to the world’s largest democracy and an important US ally in Asia. Blinken will also visit Kuwait and meet senior officials there at the end of the July 26-29 trip. The United States sees …

NAPLES: Energy and environment ministers from the Group of 20 rich nations have failed to agree on the wording of a key climate change commitment in their final communique, Italy’s Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani said on Friday. The G20 meeting was seen as a decisive step ahead of United Nations climate talks, known as COP 26, which takes place …