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GAZA/THE HAGUE (Reuters): Israel prepared to defend itself on Thursday at the top U.N. court against accusations of genocide in Gaza, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly rebuffed for the first time calls by some right-wing…

LAKKI MARWAT: In the third incident of terrorism in Khyber Pakthunkhwa on Wednesday, two more lives were lost when armed persons engaged security forces in a firing in Lakki Marwat district. In a statement issued in Rawalpindi, the…

GUAYAQUIL/QUITO (Reuters): More than 130 prison guards and other staff are being held hostage by inmates in at least five prisons around Ecuador, which is reeling from an escalation of violence in recent days that its president has called a…

NORTH WAZIRISTAN: An independent candidate for the Feb 8 general elections was on Wednesday evening shot dead by unknown people in North Wazirstan. In another attack in Turbat, Balochistan, PML-N candidate for NA 258 Aslam Buledi was…

ISLAMABAD: Justice Mazahir Ali Naqvi of Supreme Court of Pakistan, against whom a corruption reference was pending in the Supreme Judicial Council, resigned on Wednesday.  The case against the judge was related to his possession of…

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday gave back the election symbol of 'Bat' to the embattled PTI. A two-member bench of Justice Arshad Ali and Justice Ijaz Anwar announced its decision on an intra-court appeal filed by the PTI.…

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has dismissed a set of appeals against a special court judgement to hang former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf till death in the high treason case against him. The apex court upheld the special…

LAKKI MARWAT: As many as eight people, including two women, were killed by firing inside a house in Lakki Marwat, Khyber Pakthunkhwa. Police said that unidentified armed men entered the house at Takhti Khel last night and opened…

KOHAT: In an increasing wave of terror incidents, armed people attacked a checkpoint/toll plaza at a highway near Kohat killing three policemen and a civilian. The incident occured late at night on Indus Highway's Lachi toll plaza near…

BANNU: Two police personnel deployed on security duty with polio teams were martyred in Bannu on Tuesday, the area police said. According to the police, the two policemen were providing protection to the polio teams who were administering…