China has announced it will arrange for a Pakistan astronaut to perform short-term missions as part of China’s space station missions, state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday. Astronaut from Pakistan will be arranged to perform short-term mission as a مزید پڑھیں
China and Indian militaries have had talks on the management of the border the countries share, and both agreed to use existing mechanisms to resolve any “ground issues”, the neighbours said. New Delhi and Beijing had reached a milestone pact مزید پڑھیں
Thailand’s former Queen Sirikit, the mother of the current King Vajiralongkorn and wife of the nation’s longest-reigning monarch, died late on Friday at the age of 93, the palace said. The royal family is venerated in Thailand, treated by many مزید پڑھیں
Royal jewels stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris in a brazen daylight robbery over the weekend have been valued at more than $100m (some 88 million euros), a French prosecutor said. “It is important to remember that this damage مزید پڑھیں
Japan got its first woman prime minister on Tuesday after Sanae Takaichi, a China hawk and social conservative, forged an 11th-hour coalition deal. Japan’s fifth premier in as many years will lead a minority government and has a full in-tray, مزید پڑھیں
A tragic incident unfolded in the early hours of Monday morning when a cargo plane arriving from Dubai crash-landed at Hong Kong International Airport, veering off the runway and plunging into the sea. Two ground personnel were confirmed dead following مزید پڑھیں
Ukrainian drones attacked a gas plant in Russia’s Orenburg region, the local governor said on Sunday, causing a fire to break out at a workshop which emergency services were working to put out. The governor, Yevgeny Solntsev, said on his مزید پڑھیں
Almost 14 million people in countries including Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan, risk severe hunger due to cuts in global humanitarian aid, the United Nations World Food Programme has warned. The WFP’s biggest donor, مزید پڑھیں
Earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck offshore in the southern Philippines on Friday, its seismology agency said, with tsunami warnings issued in several countries and people in nearby coastal areas urged to move inland or to higher ground. Agency Phivolcs warned مزید پڑھیں
A 60-year-old man was in custody in Australia on Monday after police said he shot up to 50 bullets into a busy Sydney street, wounding more than a dozen people. Police were called on Sunday evening to the city’s Inner مزید پڑھیں