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WASHINGTON, Jan 04 : United States’ chief medical doctor and health educator has called for risk warnings on alcoholic beverages, similar to the labels on cigarettes, following new research that links the drinks to seven types of cancer. The advisory from US Surgeon General Vivek […]

NEW YORK, Jan 01 : Nearly a million Americans and tourists from around the world braved lightning, thunder and torrential rain as they converged into New York’s Times Square to watch the iconic ball drop, which signals the advent of New Year. While people greeted […]

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 31 : Pakistan will begin its two-year tenure as a non-permanent member of the powerful United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on January 1, with Ambassador Munir Akram saying that the Pakistani delegation will play an “active and constructive”role in addressing key challenges […]

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 26 : Concluding the main part of its seventy-ninth session today, the General Assembly adopted a 10-year action programme to address the unique challenges faced by landlocked developing countries, a historic cybercrime convention and the $3.72 billion United Nations budget for 2025. […]

ISLAMABAD, Dec 25 : Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL), an Embraer 190 aircraft operating flight J2-8243 from Baku to Grozny made an emergency landing three kilometres from the city of Aktau. According to AZERTAC, the incident was caused by a collision between the aircraft and a flock […]