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Xinhua/APP Beijing: The ongoing heavy rain in south China is expected to subside from Monday, according to the country's national observatory. However, rainfall is forecast to continue over the coming three days across the southern…

AFP/APP Hong Kong: Asian markets rose Monday, clawing back some of last week's losses, as Middle East worries subsided and traders looked ahead to the release of key US inflation data and corporate earnings after tensions between the…

AFP/APP Tokyo: One died and seven people were missing Sunday after an accident overnight in which two Japanese military helicopters apparently collided before crashing into the sea, officials said. A spokesman for Japan's Self-Defense…

AFP/APP Tehran: Despite Friday's announcement of explosions in central Iran, many people appeared unfazed and planned rallies in the capital supporting last weekend's unprecedented Iranian attack on Israel still went ahead. "We're going…

AFP/APP Dakar: The deadly heatwave that hit Africa's Sahel region in early April would not have occurred without human-induced climate change, according to a study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group published Thursday. The…

News Desk  Islamabad: In the United States, Google terminated the employment of 28 workers who protested against the company's agreement with the Israeli government. As reported by the American magazine "Bloomberg," Google entered…

AFP/APP Tokyo: Eight people were reported injured Thursday after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off southwestern Japan, but there appeared to be no major damage or tsunami. The epicenter of the quake, which hit at 11:14 pm (1414…

AFP/APP London: Oil prices fell further Wednesday but stocks diverged as traders tracked fallout from Iran's attack on Israel and assessed the outlook for interest rates. The top two global oil contracts fell more than one percent,…

AA/APP  Istanbul: The Turkish benchmark stock index opened Tuesday at 9,645.01 points, down by 0.36%, or 34.79 points, versus the previous close.  At the previous close, the BIST 100 index fell by 1.37% to 9,679.80 points, with a…

APP  Islamabad: Pakistan's exports to the seven regional countries witnessed an increase of 20.57 percent in the first eight months of the financial year (2023–24) as compared to the corresponding months of last year. The country's…