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APP Abbottabad: Hazara Division is currently facing severe dry weather and a harsh cold wave, triggering a health crisis characterized by a surge in respiratory illnesses like influenza, colds, fever, and cough. The dry weather has…

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 Peshawar: The catastrophic flooding in Pakistan in 2022 has increased five-fold the burden of malaria cases in the country, reveals WHO’s annual malaria report, delving into the nexus between climate change and malaria.…

APP Peshawar: The repatriation of individuals to Afghanistan has persisted, with a total of 253,068 people returning as of December 2 via three border points in Khyber-Pakthunkhwa. According to the KP Home Department, the breakdown of…

AFP/APP Manila: A powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Saturday, as reported by the US Geological Survey. The earthquake originated off the coast at a depth of 32 kilometers (20 miles) at 10:37pm,…

Ishtiaq Ahmed London: We are into the second day of the temporary four-day pause in the war between Israel and Palestine in Gaza. Qatar mediated the temporary pause. Part of this fragile truce deal is for Hamas to release 50 held…

AFP/APP New York: New York State sued PepsiCo on Wednesday, pointing to the soda giant's plastic waste as a scourge of waterways and blasting the company's "misleading" statements on the environment. The civil suit, filed by New York…

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…

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…