Up to 15 trapped under collapsed building in Georgia

Tbilisi, Oct 8 (AFP/APP):A five-storey building collapsed Friday in Georgia’s second city Batumi as authorities deployed hundreds of firemen and medics to rescue victims. Georgian police said “around 10 to 15 people” were trapped under debris and that it was doing “everything” to get them […]

PMD forecasts rain from Sunday evening in upper parts of country

PESHAWAR, Oct 09 (APP):Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has predicted rain-wind/thunderstorm in upper parts of the country on from Sunday to Tuesday. In this regard, Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) on Saturday alerted in its latest dispatch to all deputy commissioners of the province that a […]

US stocks edge down as market digests lackluster job gains

New York, Oct 8 (AFP/APP):Wall Street stocks finished lower Friday and cut into the week’s gains, after the US government reported disappointing hiring data in September, even as the unemployment rate edged downwards. The United States added only 194,000 jobs last month, less than half […]

FIFA World Cup CONCACAF qualifying standings

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 (Xinhua/APP):Following are the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying standings in the North and Central America and Caribbean (CONCACAF) region after Thursday’s matches (tabulated under matches played, won, drawn lost, goals for, against, points): United States 4 2 2 0 7 2 […]

Safe Spaces inaugurated for Afghan refugees at Khazana, Akora

PESHAWAR, Oct 08 (APP):Commissioner for Afghan Refugees, Abbas Khan, Head of the Social Support for vulnerable Afghan Refugees and Host Communities (SSARC) Project, Heidi Herrmann, and Chief Coordinator RAHA at Commissionerate for Refugees, Fakher-e-Alam, inaugurated Safe Spaces in Khazana (Peshawar) and Akora Khattak (Nowshera). Abbas […]

5.6-Magnitude quake jolts western Indonesia

JAKARTA, Oct 8 (XINHUA/APP):An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 rocked Indonesia’s western province of Aceh on Friday, the meteorology and geophysics agency said here. The quake hit at 17 : 04 a.m. Jakarta time (1014 GMT) with the epicenter at 29 km southwest Calang […]

Japan, Russia to continue talks on peace treaty

Tokyo – October 8 (Online): Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Thursday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to move forward with negotiations on a post-war peace agreement between the two countries. Speaking to the press after his first phone call […]

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