2+ hour, 50+ min ago  (270+ words) PARIS (AFP): Leila Shahid, the first woman diplomat representing Palestine abroad, died in southern France aged 76, her family said Wednesday. "She died today," her sister Zeina told AFP, without providing further details. Born in Lebanon in 1949, Shahid was the first…...

2+ hour, 55+ min ago  (375+ words) NEW DELHI (Reuters): An Indian university is facing backlash after one of its professors was caught falsely presenting a Chinese-made robot dog at a major artificial intelligence summit, it has reportedly since been asked to leave, as the institution's own....

3+ hour, 14+ min ago  (320+ words) PARIS (AFP) : More than 150 European ex-diplomats and lawmakers on Wednesday urged France's foreign minister to retract "inaccurate" comments about a UN expert on Palestinians rights who he wants to resign. France and Germany have called for Francesca Albanese to step…...

3+ hour, 25+ min ago  (438+ words) Tom Steyer must solve this dilemma: How does he convince financially struggling Californians they can trust a billionaire to be their governor? Because, after all, the former hedge fund titan doesn't exactly share their daily ordeal of scraping up enough…...

6+ hour, 6+ min ago  (917+ words) Wenran Jiang A parade of Western leaders to Beijing, including French President Emmanuel Macron in December, and more recently, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the United Kingdom's Keir Starmer, with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz planning a visit later this…...

6+ hour, 10+ min ago  (140+ words) ISTANBUL (Reuters) : Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he is pleased to see steps taken in neighboring Syria to integrate the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic "Forces (SDF) into state "structures, after a US-backed ceasefire deal late last month "between the sides. In…...

6+ hour, 14+ min ago  (238+ words) Yotova singled out the preparation of fair elections as the most important task of the new interim government. She also referred to the urgent need to allay people's fears of rising prices of goods and services, following the country's adoption…...

6+ hour, 27+ min ago  (255+ words) ISLAMABAD: The benchmark KSE-100 Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Wednesday turned around to bullish trend, gaining 5,702.68 points, a positive change of 3.29 percent, to close at 178,853.10 points compared to 173,150.42 points on the previous trading day, according to PSX…...

8+ hour, 3+ min ago  (598+ words) The relationship between Egypt and Sudan has never been a typical neighborly one. Shared history, the Nile River, deep social and cultural ties, and intertwined security concerns have long made the two countries part of a single geopolitical space. That…...

10+ hour, 44+ min ago  (202+ words) ISLAMABAD: Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sohail Afridi on Wednesday announced to form a force to get release of the PTI's Founder. "I will disband the force with thanks after release of the party's founder," talking to media outside the…...