Asia-Pacific

News Desk  Islamabad: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday said that due to the untiring efforts of the incumbent government and its economic team, Pakistan was now out of the woods economically, with major indicators…

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…

News Desk  Ankara: Ali Şahin, a member of the Turkish Parliament and Chairman of the Turkish-Pakistani Parliamentary Friendship Group, has emphasized that certain international powers are not supportive of stability and development in…

AFP/APP Beijing: China on Tuesday issued its highest-level red rainstorm warning for parts of Guangdong, a local weather agency said, as the southern province was battered by downpours. The megacity of Shenzhen was among the areas…

News Desk United Nations: The world's children in 2024 are likely to see increased exposure to violence and war as well as economic hardship, the UN Children’s Agency (UNICEF) warned in a flagship study released on Tuesday. At the…

Asmat Shah Garwaki Peshawar: As many as 5.4 million school-aged children in Pakistan would be obese by 2030 if the unchecked sale and manufacturing of unsafe food, including chips and snacks, continued at such a high rate in markets,…

News Desk Sydney: Despite having acutely low immunity levels, blood cancer patients have significant responses against SARS-CoV-2 following vaccination, on par with those of healthy individuals. Researchers at the University of…

News Desk Islamabad: A three-day residential training programme on leadership and protection for transgender fellows was held to strengthen trans community leaders’ knowledge of flood disaster response, protection, governance mechanisms,…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: The diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, under the mediation of China, have been restored and the world is welcoming the effort made by China. It is an important development towards the…

News Desk Islamabad: The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is far less likely to cause long-term Covid than the variant that was prevalent during the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to new research. The study revealed that…