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Islamabad: Protests by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's party over the weekend in the national capital caused damages worth Rs 240 million to private and public property, a media report said Wednesday. The damage assessment was mentioned in a report that the Islamabad Inspector...

Vientiane: Southeast Asian leaders gathered Wednesday for an annual forum that will focus on the civil war in Myanmar and territorial tensions in the South China Sea, two key challenges that have tested the bloc's credibility. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Laos...

Tokyo: Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba dissolved Japan's lower house of parliament Wednesday to set up an October 27 early election and seek the voters' mandate for his 9-day-old government. Ishiba took office last week as Fumio Kishida resigned after three years leading the governing Liberal...

Stockholm: The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to three scientists for their breakthrough work predicting and even designing the structure of proteins, the building blocks of life. The prize was awarded to David Baker, who works at the University of Washington in Seattle,...

Jerusalem: Israel's military said that it launched extensive airstrikes targeting underground Hezbollah command centres in Lebanon, in which more than 50 militants were killed. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari Tuesday said during a televised Press briefing that the airstrikes hit and destroyed...

Rio de Janeiro: Brazil's Supreme Court has authorised the social media platform X to resume operations in the country after being banned for over a month due to non-compliance with court rulings. Judge Alexandre de Moraes lifted the ban Tuesday after X paid approximately 28.6...

Male: As Maldives President Muhammad Muizzu visits India, the main opposition Tuesday took a swipe at his “naive and inexperienced” administration and said it has now realised that diplomacy cannot be conducted through “lies and deceit.” Former president Mohamed Nasheed echoed the sentiment, terming India...

United Nations: India has said that the 'Pact of the Future', adopted by consensus by world leaders here last month, “falls short” in capturing views expressed by a majority of UN member states calling for Security Council expansion and beginning text-based negotiations on reform within...

Beijing: China Tuesday said it attaches "importance" to President Droupadi Murmu's letter to her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), asserting that Beijing stands ready to jointly promote the sound and steady development...

Stockholm: John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning. “This year's two Nobel Laureates in physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation...