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Xinhua/APPBeijing: A magnitude-7.1 quake rattled the Banda Sea at 12:52 p.m. (Beijing Time), informed the China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC).The epicentre was monitored at 6.55 degrees south latitude and 129.45 degrees east…

AFP/APPBeijing: Beijing is the third most polluted major city on Earth on Wednesday, just ahead of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, stated IQAir– air quality monitoring firm.With tens of millions of people in northern China under severe…

Xinhua/APPBeijing: Beijing authorities issued an orange alert for heavy air pollution which came into force on Monday at noon and is expected to end on November 3 (Friday) as per the weather forecast.A spate of emergency response…

Xinhua/APPGuangzhou: The 16th typhoon of this year ‘Typhoon Sanba’ made landfall in the coastal areas of Zhanjiang City, south China’s Guangdong Province, at around 9:45 am on Friday, informed local meteorological service.Under the…

Ali JabirIslamabad: Once enjoying a unique status for its serene evenings and amusing landscape, the capital is fast losing its beauty, tranquilly, biodiversity, and habitat due to rapid urbanisation in the suburbs of the main city.…

News DeskUnited Nations: Floods and storms accounted for a staggering 40.9 million (or 95 percent) of the recorded child displacements between 2016 and 2021, revealed United Nations findings.The 2022 unprecedented floods in Pakistan…

Xinhua/APPBeijing: China’s national observatory on Tuesday morning issued a yellow alert as Typhoon Koinuapproaches the southern and eastern parts of the country.It is the third most severe warning in its four-tier typhoon warning…

Xinhua/APPLos Angeles: A small plane crash in the U.S. state of Utah Sunday night killed four people, informed authorities on Monday.According to the Grand County Sheriff’s Office, the small plane crashed into the ground in a remote…

News DeskShijiazhuang: A three-month excavation project has found the ruins of a Taoist temple dating back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279) in North China’s Hebei Province Wuyi county, local authorities informed on Saturday.It was…

Xinhua/APPBeijing: China announced a plan on Thursday to establish five national botanical gardens by 2025 as part of the country’s drive to build a national botanical garden system for better protection of plant diversity.According…