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AFP/APP Wajima: Japanese rescuers scrambled to search for survivors on Wednesday as authorities warned of landslides and heavy rain after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 62 people. The 7.5-magnitude quake on January 1 that…

AFP/APP New York: Fireworks illuminated skies over Paris, Rio, and Sydney to celebrate the entry of 2024, while in Israel, Gaza, and Ukraine, rockets and strikes marked the year's earliest hours. Much of the world's population—now…

AFP/APP Washington: The US state of Maine on Thursday blocked former president Donald Trump from its Republican presidential primary ballot, the second state to disqualify him over his role in the January 2021 assault on the US Capitol.…

Xinhua/APP Beijing/Hong Kong: Two separate earthquakes with a magnitude of 5.7 struck the Tonga Islands and Isangel with a 5.8-magnitude tremor during the last 24 hours. The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences reported a…

AFP/APP Gaza Strip: Israeli strikes in Gaza killed more than 200 people in 24 hours, Hamas-controlled authorities said on Saturday, as the United States again pressed its ally to do more to protect civilians. Despite growing calls for…

Shazia Mehboob Peshawar: The increasing level of household pollution, both in the form of biomass and solid waste generation, is posing serious threats to public health and the environment in Peshawar. The air quality index (AQI) in…

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…

News Desk Islamabad: Alex Batty lost during a two-week family trip to Spain in 2017, at the age of 11, and reappeared six years later, now 17, wandering the roads of France. On December 16, he safely returned to the United Kingdom.…

Naveed ul Haq Malik Lahore: In the wake of uncontrolled expansion, poorly conceived development initiatives, and inadequate time management by city authorities, Lahore finds itself entrenched in yet another winter of dense smog,…

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…