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News Desk  Washington: The United States will suspend processing of immigrant visas for applicants from Pakistan and 74 other countries beginning January 21, a State Department spokesperson said Wednesday, as President Donald Trump’s…

Xinhua/APP Seoul: The launch of South Korea's first commercial space launch vehicle failed due to an anomaly after liftoff, local media said Tuesday. Hanbit-Nano, developed by the space company Innospace, was launched at about 10:13…

Shah Khalid Shah Jee  Bajaur: Sabir Ali, a young Pakistani social activist, Kofi Annan Foundation Fellow, and climate change advocate, recently attended the COP30 conference in Belém, Brazil, marking his first experience at this global…

AFP/APP Rio De Janeiro: Brazil’s government has confirmed that the only wild specimens of the rare Spix’s macaw — recently reintroduced to their natural habitat — have been diagnosed with an incurable and likely lethal virus, dealing a…

AFP/APP Belém, Brazil: Nearly 200 nations on Saturday approved a modest outcome at the UN’s COP30 climate summit in Brazil’s Amazon region. The deal drew mixed reactions—welcomed as a workable compromise amid tense negotiations and the…

AFP/APP Belém, Brazil:Global climate talks in Brazil edged toward a final agreement on Saturday after the European Union backed a compromise text that contains only an indirect reference to phasing out fossil fuels, following tense…

News Desk Islamabad: Pakistan has renewed its call for urgent, predictable, and equitable climate finance, enhanced technology transfer, and stronger international cooperation to support climate-vulnerable countries, during a series of…

AFP/APP Belém, Brazil: A bitter standoff over whether to reference fossil fuels in the final agreement threatened to derail UN climate talks in Brazil on Friday, as time ran out on the scheduled last day of COP30. At stake is an…

AFP/APP Sydney: Australia on Monday rejected Turkey’s proposal to co-host next year’s UN climate summit, as competing bids for COP31 overshadow ongoing negotiations at this year’s conference in Brazil. Canberra and Ankara are facing…

AFP/APP Belen: Thousands of climate activists and Indigenous communities marched through the streets of Belém on Saturday, calling for stronger action from negotiators at the UN’s COP30 climate summit, now at its halfway mark. Under…