UNITED NATIONS: The global food trade could hit an all-time high in 2021-22, in both volume and value terms, says a UN report released on Thursday. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reported that by the end of 2021, the global food import bill should extend beyond $1.75 trillion, marking a 14 per cent increase from the previous year. …

Pakistan’s T20 World Cup 2021 campaign came to an end on Thursday night, and here are our five takeaways from their campaign: 1- Death of a dream is as painful as a real death It’s almost unbelievable how a sport — a leisure activity featuring bat and ball — that has no real consequence on the workings of the world …

BERLIN: Germany needs further coronavirus restrictions to combat a record surge in infections and “get through this winter”, the country’s likely next leader Olaf Scholz said on Thursday, calling a national meeting to decide new curbs. The EU’s most populous country recorded 50,196 new cases in the past 24 hours, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) health agency — …

GLASGOW: A surprise deal between China and the United States, the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas emitters, has boosted the COP26 UN climate summit as it enters two last days of hard bargaining to try to stop global warming becoming catastrophic. US climate envoy John Kerry and his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua unveiled an outline late on Wednesday in which …

ISLAMABAD: Six police station house officers (SHOs) in the capital were removed on Thursday for their poor performance and misconduct. Talking to Dawn, senior police officers said four of the SHOs were suspended over misconduct and bad reputation and two removed for poor performance and failure to control crime. Those who suspended were the SHOs of Sihala, Khanna, Koral and Karachi …

BERLIN: German Chan­cellor Angela Merkel discussed the situation on the Poland-Belarus border with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the second time in as many days on Thursday, telling him Belarus was deploying defenceless people in a “hybrid attack”. Merkel told Putin the situation on the border, where hundreds of migrants sit frozen in the no man’s land between the two …

ISLAMABAD: Senator Faisal Vawda on Thursday filed a petition with the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking to stay proceedings of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in his disqualification case. The senator had filed an appeal against the decision of ECP dated Oct 12, rejecting his application to stop the proceedings regarding his disqualification case. Mr Vawda had adopted the …

DUBAI: Matthew Wade smacked three successive sixes off Pakistan’s Shaheen Afridi in the penultimate over and lifted Australia into the Twenty20 World Cup final with a dramatic five-wicket victory on Thursday. Wade crushed Pakistan hopes in a stunning display of power-hitting against Pakistan’s premier fast bowler as Australia cruised to 177-5 with an over to spare. Pakistan had their chance …

WELLINGTON: US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to address leaders of the Pacific Rim late on Friday amid heightened regional trade and geopolitical tensions. China set the tone for the 21 member Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting this week, with Xi warning in a video recording on Thursday that the region must not return to the …