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AFP/APPGeneva: Asia was the world's most disaster-hit region from climate and weather hazards in 2023, the United Nations said Tuesday, with floods and storms the chief cause of casualties and economic losses.Global temperatures hit…

AFP/APP Dubai: Three workers from the Philippines have died in heavy flooding in the United Arab Emirates, Filipino officials announced, as the desert country struggled Friday to recover from record rains. Two women suffocated inside…

AFP/APPWashington:The US Senate has rejected a Republican effort to remove Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, defusing an impeachment battle that had become closely intertwined with the broader political fight over…

AFP/APPKennedy: A US spaceship attempting a lunar landing lifted off early Thursday from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, the second such private-led effort this year after the first ended in failure.Intuitive Machines, the…

Xinhua/APP Manila: The death toll in a massive landslide that crashed into villages in Davao de Oro province in the southern Philippines has climbed to 35 from 27, with 77 others remaining missing, authorities said on Sunday. The Maco…

Xinhua/APPJakarta: A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's eastern province of Papua earlier Sunday, with no potential to cause a tsunami, the country's meteorology, climatology, and geophysics agency said.The weather…

News DeskAbbottabad: From January 1st to December 26th, 2023, as many as 16,988,946 tourists explored the different districts of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.Remarkably, KP welcomed 4,554 foreign tourists, signaling the…

APP Islamabad: Elderly and medically vulnerable teaching and non-teaching staff of educational institutions have appealed for exemption from their duties at polling stations during the 2024 general elections. The Election Commission of…

AFP/APPTaiwan: Typhoon Koinu brushed past southern Taiwan, killing one person and injuring 304 on Thursday.It lashed the island with the strongest winds it has ever recorded, causing localized damage and knocking out power to…

APPIslamabad: With one child dying of the pneumonia disease every 30 seconds worldwide, around 14 percent of children die due to pneumonia in Pakistan, said health experts.Addressing the launch of research ‘Breathing for Tomorrow:…