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ISLAMABAD, Aug 30 (APP): The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed on Monday the combined seventh and eighth reviews of the Extended Arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for Pakistan. The Board’s decision allows for an immediate disbursement of SDR 894 […]

JAMSHORO, Aug 29 (Online): At least 11 people were drowned while seven others rescued when a boat carrying flood victims capsized at village Bilawalpur in Sehwan Sharif in Jamshoro district on Monday. According to the police, the people who drowned were migrating from submerged villages […]

CENTRAL ITALY 28 Aug (Online): Pope Francis on Sunday called on the international community to help Paksitan, where deadly floods have killed more than 1,000 people. The Argentine pontiff appealed for “prompt and generous international solidarity”, and said he was praying for the victims. His […]

NieuwBeijerland, Netherlands, Aug 28 (AFP/APP):Dutch police on Sunday said six people were killed and seven others hurt after a truck ran off the top of a dike and ploughed into a neighbourhood barbecue. Police were questioning the Spanish-registered driver of the lorry following the accident […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug 27 (AFP/APP): Ukraine and Russia traded fresh accusations of shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on Saturday, as its operator warned of a radioactive leak risk at the atomic facility. The Zaporizhzhia plant in southern Ukraine has been occupied by Russian […]

Algiers, Aug 27 (AFP/APP): French President Emmanuel Macron and his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune Saturday declared a “new, irreversible dynamic of progress” in their nations’ ties, concluding a visit by Macron aimed at ending months of tensions. The three-day visit comes less than two months […]

New Delhi, August 27 (ONLINE): Amid the ongoing political slugfest between Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), New Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has dubbed the BJP as a “serial killer of governments”, referring to the fall of elected state governments in […]

ISLAMABAD, Aug 26 (APP): The torrential monsoon rains across the country on Friday inflicted further lives and property losses as the total death count in various incidents reached 937, while around 1343 individuals’ sustained injuries since the onset of the rainy season. The National Disaster […]

Brussels, Aug 26 (AFP/APP):A van driver ploughed through a crowded cafe terrace in Brussels’ city centre shopping and tourism district on Friday, slightly wounding six people before escaping the scene. A suspect was later arrested in the northern port city of Antwerp and he is […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug 26 (AFP/APP): Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant occupied by Moscow’s troops came back online Friday, the state operator said, after Kyiv claimed it was cut from the national power grid by Russian shelling. The plant — Europe’s largest nuclear facility — was severed […]