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AFP/APP Brazil: Nearly 70,000 people have been forced from their homes amid deadly flooding, mudslides and torrential storms in southern Brazil, with the major city of Porto Alegre particularly hard-hit, the country's civil defense…

AFP/APP Dhaka: Classes are cancelled across Bangladesh due to searing heat, but high school student Mohua Akter Nur found the soaring temperatures at home left her in no state for homework. Millions of pupils were told to stay home…

News Desk  Islamabad: In the United States, Google terminated the employment of 28 workers who protested against the company's agreement with the Israeli government. As reported by the American magazine "Bloomberg," Google entered…

APP  Islamabad: At least four people were killed and three were rescued after a boat carrying mostly schoolchildren capsized in the river Jhelum in Srinagar on Tuesday. Personnel of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) have been…

News Desk  Islamabad: Approximately 150 children die due to various birth defects on a daily basis in Pakistan as revealed by Dr Muhammad Arshad, a distinguished pediatric surgeon and president of the Association of Pediatric Surgeons of…

AFP/APP Kabul: Children sit shoulder to shoulder, crammed in rows on the floor of a shipping container with lesson books in their laps, the remains of their school unrepaired in the six months since a major earthquake devastated their…

AFP/APP Taipei: At least nine people were killed and more than 1,000 injured Wednesday by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan that damaged dozens of buildings and prompted tsunami warnings that extended to Japan and the Philippines before…

News Desk  Quetta: At least five persons were killed in rain-related incidents, and five miners are trapped in a coal mine in northeastern Balochistan, sources said on Friday. The casualties occurred when the roof of a house collapsed…

AFP/APP Paris: France is scrambling to make sure that those virus-carrying tiger mosquitoes, a growing menace in Europe, don't spoil the Paris Olympics for athletes and fans, with millions of visitors due in the French capital for the…

News Desk  Multan: Leading experts on Friday emphasized the critical significance of water and energy, asserting that they are fundamental to the survival of nations. They stressed the necessity of global discourse on water-related…