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APP Islamabad: Despite significant challenges, the overall economic outlook remained optimistic, marked by receding inflationary pressures, positive prospects in agriculture, signs of potential recovery in the industrial sector, imports,…

AFP/APP Washington: US presidential hopeful Nikki Haley faced a firestorm of criticism on Thursday after failing to mention slavery as a cause of the American Civil War when asked what led to the conflict at a campaign event. Less…

AFP/ APP United Nations: There are no functioning hospitals in the north of Gaza, and injured patients who need surgery and cannot be moved are “waiting to die," the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday in a plea for a…

AFP/APP Gaza Strip: The head of Hamas was due in Egypt on Wednesday for talks on a fresh ceasefire in Gaza after Israel said it was willing to agree to another pause in exchange for more hostages. International pressure is mounting…

AFP/APP Paris: Ultra-processed foods are commonly portrayed as a modern health scourge, a threat lurking on the shelves of every supermarket linked to obesity, heart disease, cancer, and early death. Researchers warning of their dangers…

News Desk Gaza Strip: Hundreds of people evacuated Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital on foot Saturday, an AFP journalist at the scene saw, after the hospital director said the Israeli army ordered the hospital emptied. The Hamas-run health…

AFP/APP Washington: OpenAI, the company that launched ChatGPT a year ago, said Friday it had dismissed CEO Sam Altman in a shock firing of a central figure in the AI revolution. Altman, 38, became a tech-world sensation with the…

Sana Akhtar Quetta: In the last few years, climate change’s effects have become more evident in Pakistan's Balochistan province. The average temperature has risen, as measurements show, and the weather has become more erratic. Heavy…

APP United Nations: Lack of fuel is jeopardising 'the entire architecture of the humanitarian response' in Israel-blockaded Gaza, where raw sewage is now flowing in the streets, the head of UNRWA, the UN agency that assists Palestine…

AFP/APP Paris: “We don’t know what a humanitarian pause means concretely. Unless safe areas are created on the battlefield, it’s impossible to work,” said Doctors Without Borders President Isabelle Defourny. Hospital staff are dealing…