PARIS: Heatwaves that obliterate temperature records as in western Canada last month and Siberia last year are caused by the rapid pace, rather than the amount, of global warming, researchers said on Monday. The findings, reported in Nature Climate Change, suggest that humanity is likely to see a lot more deadly scorchers in the coming decades. “Because we are in a …

UNITED NATIONS: The banned militant group Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) still has about 6,000 trained fighters on the Afghan side of the border, warns a report prepared for the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The 28th report of the UN Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team also confirms the presence of hundreds of anti-Beijing Muslim militants close to Afghanistan’s border with China. The …

TUNIS: Street clashes erupted on Monday outside Tunisia’s army-barricaded parliament, a day after President Kais Saied ousted the prime minister and suspended the legislature, plunging the young democracy into a constitutional crisis. Saied sacked Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and ordered parliament closed for 30 days, a move the biggest political party Ennahdha decried as a “coup”, following a day of …

BEIJING: Rancour marked the start of Monday’s talks between Beijing and the highest-level US envoy to visit under President Joe Biden’s administration, as Beijing urged Washington to stop “demonising” China while the US made a “forceful” case against China’s human rights violations. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman’s visit to the northern city of Tianjin is the first major meeting …

Forty-six Afghan soldiers, including five officers who had been provided safe passage by the Pakistan Army on Sunday, were “amicably returned” to Afghan authorities today at Nawapass, Bajaur, the Inter-Services Public Relations statement (ISPR) said in a statement. “These soldiers from the Afghan National Army (ANA) and Border Police were given safe passage into Pakistan, on their own request, by the Pakistan …

CHICO: Thousands of US firefighters are battling a blaze in California that has grown so big it is generating its own weather system, with authorities warning on Monday conditions could worsen. The flames have grown so large that they have created clouds that can cause lightning and high winds, which in turn can serve to fuel the fire, according to …

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud said on Tuesday that the kingdom is looking to expand the dimensions of its relationship with Pakistan through the Saudi-Pakistan Supreme Coordination Council (SP-SCC). Prince Faisal was speaking at a press conference alongside Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Islamabad, where he arrived earlier today for a day-long visit, after the …

LAHORE: The top PML-N leadership has refused to accept the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) election results and accused the Punjab government of using its machinery to rig the polls. The party is mulling moving the courts and holding a protest drive against the alleged rigging. “I have not accepted the AJK election results… and I will not. I had …

MURREE: Poor planning is one of the main reasons behind the traffic mess witnessed in Murree during the Eid days. According to police data, around 210,000 vehicles entered the hill station during Eid holidays up till Monday, choking Murree which has a parking capacity of only 3,500 vehicles. Thousands of tourists visited the scenic areas of Murree and its adjoining …

PESHAWAR: The emerging situation in Afghanistan has turned the friends of yesterday into the foes of today as the Awami National Party and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl have engaged in a war of words with the former blaming the latter’s chief, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, for the massacre of millions of Pakhtuns and anarchy in the war-torn country. Confrontation between the nationalist and …