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One person was killed and others were injured as a result of an overnight attack on the Izmail district. Transport infrastructure facilities were also damaged.

Drones attacked Russia's Rostov Oblast on the night of 28-29 August, hitting logistics warehouses belonging to OZON and DNS, as well as a shipbuilding facility.

Iran will neither forgive nor forget Minab school massacre, Araghchi says Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has said that his country will neither forgive nor forget the Minab school massacre “but will continue to pursue it”, IRNA reported. During a visit to the “Minab School” painting exhibition on Friday, Araghchi said human rights have “become a political tool in the hands of some Western states”, “exploiting them for political gain and attaching no real value to the concept”. “We bel

United States President Donald Trump on Friday announced an unprecedented push to take control of a fifth of Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, betting that American companies can revive the Opec nation’s battered energy industry while delivering a new source of crude to help bring down US fuel prices. Trump provided few details about the agreement, saying only that the US had secured majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven oil reserves through a partnership with priva

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As the deadline approaches for homeowners to accept the Hong Kong government’s deal to buy back their flats at fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court, some who refuse to sell have said the offer cannot make up for the loss of their property and communal bonds. With the clock ticking to the August 31 cut-off date, the South China Morning Post spoke to six residents determined not to sell their homes at the devastated Tai Po estate, even though experts see the government’s offer as generous and compulsory...

China’s GJ-21 large stealth attack drone has been spotted on flight tests this month, as the country’s first Type 076 amphibious assault ship – the vessel that will launch the drone – enters its final sea trials. The GJ-21, the naval variant of the GJ-11 stealth attack drone, first appeared at China’s Victory Day parade in September last year and has made rare public appearances since then. Computer-generated footage aired by state broadcaster CCTV in July showed how it would be launched from...

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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court has raised important legal questions over the maintainability of a constitutional petition seeking extension of visas for 87 Afghan students currently residing in Pakistan on student visas. Justice Khadim Hussain Soomro raised questions regarding the legal status of the Afghan students as well as the authority of their lawyer to represent them before the court. During the hearing, the judge questioned the petitioner’s counsel about the circumstances in which t

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WHILE Pakistan struggles with the accumulated cost of climate inaction and finds international climate finance elusive, it must now confront an emerging challenge: trade barriers priced according to the carbon embedded in each exported product. The false comfort that this does not touch our key exports to the EU and UK has deferred reforms, with the cost growing steeper by the day. Contradictory policy, misusing carbon levies instead of building a domestic Emissions Trading System (ETS), has mad

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Press Secretary of the Chinese embassy in Washington Liu Chang emphasized that China has made it clear on many occasions its firm opposition to illegal unilateral sanctions

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KARACHI: In a major development that could reshape the city’s long-running battle over land use, the Sindh Master Plan Authority on Friday withdrew the notification that imposed an immediate ban on the conversion of residential land for commercial use, opening the door to a fresh regulatory chapter for Karachi’s property landscape. However, officials said the withdrawal of the notification does not amount to an automatic green light for commercialisation, as any change of land use remains subjec

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov noted that Russia continues to build a multi-layered protection of the financial sector against the shocks of sanctions.

LAHORE: The Punjab governor has directed Aitchison College to formulate merit-based policies for the selection of college prefects and other student leadership positions in sports and academics. The governor, who is also president of the Aitchison College Board of Governors, in a letter addressed to the college principal on Aug 13, desired that the policies should clearly define the eligibility criteria, selection procedure, tenure, code of conduct, roles and responsibilities and other relevant

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KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has lodged a formal complaint with the broadcaster after an interview with former prime minister and cricketer Imran Khan’s sons was telecast during the first day of the second Test against England at Lord’s. According to reports in ESPN Cricinfo, The Guardian and other UK-based publications, the board had complained to Sky Sports and considered instructing the Pakistan team not to take the field after lunch in protest. The interview, recorded at Lord’s
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QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti has warned owners of vineyards and other private properties in Mastung that they will be treated as facilitators if their land is used to launch attacks on security forces or provincial ministers. Speaking to the media after inaugurating digital initiatives at the Central Police Office on Friday, CM Bugti said the government did not want to take action that could harm ordinary citizens, as terrorists often used civilians as human shields. H

The United States is competing with China in the race to land astronauts on the Moon before 2030, more than 50 years after humans first walked the lunar surface.

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The State Department continues to advise American citizens to refrain from traveling to Ukraine due to the ongoing hostilities, placing the threat of "civil unrest" among the risk factors

All relatives of American government employees in Israel given the go-ahead to return, though tighter restrictions remain in place at diplomatic missions elsewhere in the region The post US diplomats, family members start returning to Mideast embassies after Iran war evacuations appeared first on The Times of Israel.
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Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping are expected in Central Asia's Kyrgyzstan Monday for a two-day summit, also attended by Iran's and India's leaders, of a regional bloc seeking to be a counter-influence to the West. Around a dozen heads of states will head to the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek to mark 25 years of the Shanghai Cooperation Group (SCO). The group brings together Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Iran, four Central Asian countries and Moscow-allied Belarus.

In contemporary discourse, the bogeyman of “debt traps” is almost exclusively tied to Beijing. Western media, think tanks, NGOs and policymakers from Washington to Brussels frequently warn developing nations of the perils of bilateral loans from China. Yet, Grenada’s debt dispute from a decade ago and St Vincent and the Grenadines’ (SVG) current troubles offer a starkly different, and often ignored, counter-narrative: the weaponisation of debt by Taiwan. For years, Grenada has grappled with...

Western officials say Russia is losing around 6,000 more troops in Ukraine each month than it can recruit, as Moscow escalates strikes on civilian and energy infrastructure.

Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon injures one person, state media says Israeli drone strike injured one person in the Doha area of Kfar Remman, in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency. Israeli military operations across Lebanon since 2 March have killed 4,352 people and injured 12,318, the Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health said in a statement earlier.

Two ships were seized within four days last week raising to at least 13 the number attacked since January.

Centcom says US forces redirect 82 vessels to enforce naval blockade US military redirected has 82 commercial vessels, disabled three and boarded two others to "ensure compliance" with its naval blockade of Iran, US Central Command (Centcom) said. Centcom's claim comes as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) rejected the US’s repeated claims that the Strait of Hormuz is open, saying US officials are continuing to “lie” to “cover up their failures”. A U.S. Sailor stands lookout watch
Top envoy for the US-led Board of Peace says Gaza is at risk of being ‘gone for good’ without reconstruction.

Israeli settler attacks continue: Father, son injured in Bethlehem Settler violence continues in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian media and activists. A Palestinian man, Raed Khalil, 45, and his 24-year-old son, Mahmoud, sustained injuries after being attacked by Israeli settlers in the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem, Wafa reported. The settlers assaulted them with rifle and pistol butts when the duo was on their land in the village, the report said. The Colonization and W