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Pakistan ‘drowning’ in debt: PM Sharif warns Pakistan was “drowning” in debt and it was the new government’s job to…

According to Bloomberg, which used GDP data from the International Monetary Fund, India has surpassed the United Kingdom to become…

As Beijing escalated military exercises close to the democratically governed island, Taiwan said on Wednesday that it would exercise its…

While Mikhail Gorbachev was remembered on Wednesday as a great leader who contributed to the end of the Cold War,…

Officials from the World Health Organisation stated on Tuesday that it is feasible to end the monkeypox outbreak in Europe,…

By Namrata Sarkar |Tue 30th August , 2022 Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman stated on Monday that a third of Pakistan is underwater due to flooding brought on by record-breaking monsoon rains, describing the situation as “a calamity of unthinkable proportions.” Updates on the flood so far One in seven Pakistanis, according to officials, have been impacted by the floods, which have killed 1,136 people since the monsoon season began in June. One thirdof Pakistan has been submerged by monsoon rains that have fallen nonstop since June, killing more than 1,100 people and affecting tens of millions more Pakistanis.  Ahsan Iqbal, the country’s minister of planning and development, has estimated that more than €10 billion will be required to restore and reconstruct the infrastructure that was destroyed by the floods.He claimed that there has been extensive destruction, “particularly in the telecommunications, highways, agriculture, and livelihood sectors.” According to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the rains were “unprecedented in 30 years,” and they wrecked massive tracts of farmland that were crucial to the nation’s economy in addition to destroying or seriously damaging more than a million dwellings. …

In what would be the U.S’ first highly publicized sail since Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, the sailing of the…

Josep Borrell, the head of the EU’s foreign policy, said on Saturday that an ethnic issue between Serbia and Kosovo…

For 75 years Japan has followed a pacifist constitution avoiding large-scale militarisation. But as the China-Taiwan confrontation brews, it has destabilised the region. Japan is expanding its military capabilities as Taiwan is threatened by a full-scale military invasion by China.

A worldwide watchdog has criticised Germany for not doing enough to combat money laundering, including by convicting few people for…