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SEOUL: More than 800,000 young North Koreans have volunteered to join the army to fight “US imperialists”, state media said on Saturday, days after Pyongyang test-fired its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile. After a record-breaking year of weapons tests and growing nuclear threats from Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington have ramped up security cooperation, and this week kicked off their largest joint military …

KARACHI: Despite passage of over 50 hours and use of 800,000 gallons of water, the fire in the basement of ‘illegally’ built warehouse of a famed departmental store located in a multi-storey building (Summaya Bridge View) in PECHS Block-3 near Jail Chowrangi on Shaheed-i-Millat Road had not been completely controlled until Friday evening, admitted officials. An official of the Karachi …

WASHINGTON: Amer­icans have raised almost $800,000 for the family of a Pakistani immigrant, killed during a carjacking last week, although the family had sought only $100,000. Police have charged two teenage girls — aged 13 and 15 — with murder, felony and carjacking in this case that seems to have generated a wave of sympathy for the immigrant’s family. The …

With the addition of nearly 27,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, Texas has surpassed over 2 million total cases during the pandemic. Meanwhile, Dallas County on Wednesday reported 2,994 new coronavirus cases and 21 new COVID-19 fatalities, pushing the county’s death toll above 1,800. Ten of the victims were Dallas residents: a woman in her 40s, a man in his …

ISLAMABAD: The Natio­­nal Assembly Standing Committee on National Food Security and Research on Monday asked the food ministry to increase wheat support price to Rs1,800 per 40kg, citing the example of wheat producing countries in the region which have substantially enhanced the support price. Secretary National Food Security Ghufran Memon informed the NA committee that the production cost of wheat …

KARACHI: Local one-tola and 10g gold price hit an all time high at the start of New Year, rising to Rs90,800 and Rs77,846, respectively. This breaches the previous peak of Rs90,150 and Rs77,289 achieved in August 2019 based on the world gold price of $1,546 per ounce. All Sindh Sarafa Jewellers Association (ASSJA) first released one-tola and 10g yellow metal …