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A Pakistani astronaut will travel to China's Tiangong space station aboard the Shenzhou-24 mission, becoming the first foreigner to visit the orbiting outpost, Beijing's manned space agency said on Saturday. Pakistan and China are close diplomatic and strategic partners, and signed a deal in Feb...
Posted on 7 November 2026 | 11:20 am
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French unions and student groups are set to take to the streets for another day of protests on Saturday, while the Yellow Vests movement plans a separate rally in central Paris despite a ban by authorities. The demonstrations follow weeks of youth-led unrest and nationwide strikes that drew hundreds...
Posted on 7 November 2026 | 7:08 am
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Iran said Saturday its military has grown "stronger" since the outset of its war with the United States, which has offered a $20 million reward for information about Tehran's nuclear programme. Mediators have been working to prevent any resumption of fighting after months of deadlock in the Mi...
Posted on 7 November 2026 | 5:29 am
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UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has urged the United Nations not to allow financial constraints and cost-cutting measures to weaken its peacekeeping operations, warning that reductions in resources could undermine the organisation's ability to maintain international peace and security. The warning comes ...
Posted on 7 November 2026 | 4:59 am
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• US president says world will 'know very soon' whether he makes a deal with Tehran or orders strikes• Calls Qatar's Sheikh Tamim as Doha steps up its mediation• Centcom prepares for possible return to fight WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump is said to be weighing whether to resume l...
Posted on 7 November 2026 | 2:20 am
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GERMAN Chancellor Friedrich Merz (left) shakes hands with Ilse Aigner, the speaker of Bavaria's state parliament, upon arrival at the Christian Social Union party's congress in Munich.—AFP BERLIN: Bavarian politician Ilse Aigner is expected to become Germany's next president in 2027, th...
Posted on 7 November 2026 | 12:05 am
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's attorney general blocked on Friday the transfer of former prime minister Najib Razak to house arrest for the remainder of his graft sentence, saying it needed more clarification on his royal pardon. The 73-year-old former leader was jailed for his role in one of the large...
Posted on 7 November 2026 | 12:05 am
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TOKYO: A Japanese minister blamed Elon Musk's X social media platform on Friday for almost plunging him into diplomatic hot water, after its automatic translation feature implied he did not know the names of world leaders he was meeting. Trade Minister Ryosei Akazawa assured reporters that he kne...
Posted on 7 November 2026 | 12:05 am
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US President Donald Trump replaced chief of staff Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller on Friday, elevating the architect of some of his toughest domestic policies to run the White House after Republicans lost control of Congress in this week's midterm elections. The shake-up puts a longtime Trump loya...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 8:15 pm
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Protesters broke into the construction site of a Microsoft data centre in Amsterdam on Friday at the start of two days of rallies that are part of a growing global backlash over the rapid build-out of computing power needed for AI. Activist groups have announced actions in 16 countries on Friday and...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 6:38 pm
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The Foreign Office (FO) on Friday said that the secretary general of the Makkah Defence Alliance, retired Lieutenant General Nauman Mahmood, is expected to assume his responsibilities in Riyadh soon. Mahmood was appointed on Sep 23 as the first secretary general of the alliance between Pakistan, Sau...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 6:31 pm
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Newsrooms in Ireland and Bulgaria received emailed bomb threats on Friday from a purported "Mikhail Andropov", claiming responsibility for a widening wave of hoax threats disrupting passenger flights across Europe. The messages, sent to Bulgaria's Nova TV and the Irish public broadcaster RTE, ...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 6:27 pm
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Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Chief of the Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir and Sudan's Interior Minister Lieutenant General (Police) Babiker Samra Mustafa Ali on Friday discussed avenues to enhance bilateral cooperation between their countries. Lt Gen Ali called on CDF Munir at General Hea...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 5:48 pm
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Thomas Markle, father of Prince Harry's wife Meghan Markle, has been arrested for possessing child pornography, the US Justice Department said on Friday. Markle, 82, of Lakeland, Florida, is charged with one count of possession of child pornography, the US Attorney's Office for the Central Distr...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 5:12 pm
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Production of Cybertrucks — the pickups hailed by enthusiasts as a symbol of Elon Musk's futuristic ambitions and equally hated as ugly reminders of the Donald Trump era — will wind down, the Tesla CEO said Friday. Tesla will stop building the truck at its Texas factory around the middle of 20...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 3:10 pm
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European Union's (EU) tech regulators charged social media platform TikTok on Friday with breaching the bloc's online content rules, telling it to fix the so-called "rabbit hole" effect of its recommender system, which attracts users' attention to a constant stream of similar videos. TikTo...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 2:54 pm
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Apple has an undisclosed multilingual grey list of tens of thousands of words and phrases that its iOS keyboard will not autocomplete or swipe-type, a researcher said on Friday. The list is not a ban; iPhone users can still type what they like when drafting emails and texts. But the words on the lis...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 1:37 pm
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The world is on track for 2026 to be the second-hottest year on record as an exceptionally strong El Nino weather pattern turbocharges human-driven global warming, the EU's climate monitor said Friday. This year still has a "20 per cent chance of tying or exceeding" 2024 as the warmest ever...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 10:20 am
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Indian Christian leaders say they suffered systematic attacks on their faith after a spate of church vandalism and assaults in West Bengal state, they told AFP on Friday. Churches have been vandalised and pastors assaulted in the Hindu-majority state of 100 million people since Prime Minister Narend...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 10:17 am
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Saudi Arabia has denied a report by the US-based Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that Yemen's Houthis had demanded $51 billion from kingdom in return for a "negotiated halt" to the ongoing hostilities between the two sides. A report by the Journal claimed on Thursday that the kingdom had approached ...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 8:44 am
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Police orders asking X (formerly known as Twitter) to block online accounts of two of India's most prominent free speech groups were fake, the social media company told an Indian court on Friday, days after the purported content removal requests sparked a public outcry. The orders, submitted throu...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 8:40 am
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The Turkish parliament on Thursday approved a bill ratifying the Makkah Agreement on Joint Defence with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, paving the way for the trilateral security pact to come into force. Lawmakers endorsed the measure by 279 votes to 119, with 398 of the chamber's 592 members taking pa...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 7:01 am
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UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council on Thursday adopted a presidential statement initiated by Pakistan, calling on countries to continue diplomatic engagement even after the outbreak of armed conflicts and urging sustained efforts to secure ceasefires, prevent escalation and achieve lasting poli...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 5:59 am
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GAZA CITY/JERICHO: Israeli strikes and gunfire on Thursday killed five people across Gaza, including a woman and a 12-year-old boy, rescue services in the Palestinian territory said. Israel and Hamas regularly accuse each other of violating the ceasefire that came into effect in October 2025, after ...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 4:25 am
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GENEVA: A United Nations watchdog said on Thursday that Britain had violated the rights of a young woman who committed suicide while being prosecuted for allegedly making a false rape accusation. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) faulted Britain for failing...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 4:23 am
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Posted on 6 November 2026 | 4:17 am
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WASHINGTON: US First Lady Melania Trump called for a "more enduring" ceasefire in Ukraine as she hosted a rare meeting between officials from the war-torn country and its invader Russia at the White House on Thursday. The unprecedented meeting hoped to build on a localised six-day truce in the s...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 4:09 am
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WASHINGTON: Muslim Americans made significant gains in Tuesday's US midterm elections, winning or leading in at least 36 contests for federal, state and local offices, while a nationwide exit survey suggests that the wars in Gaza and Iran, economic pressures and rising Islamophobia played major ro...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 3:59 am
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ISTANBUL: Eight people were shot dead in three villages in western central Turkiye on Thursday, local officials said, as a major manhunt was underway to find the gunman. "Unfortunately, eight of our citizens have lost their lives, and one has been seriously injured in armed attacks in our province...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 3:45 am
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President Donald Trump was left to grapple on Thursday with the stinging rebuke from voters after a midterm election rout, while triumphant Democrats vowed to lower prices and combat the "cartel" within the White House in the new Congress. Trump faces a radically transformed and hostile politica...
Posted on 5 November 2026 | 12:00 pm