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ISLAMABAD: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects have not only remained unscathed by the Covid-19 pandemic but Pak-China bilateral cooperation has increased during this period, officials and think tank representatives said on Thursday. They were speaking at a webinar on ‘New Oppor­tunities and Challenges of China-Pakistan Cooperation in the Post-Epidemic Era’, which was participated in by experts of Chinese and Pakistani …

NEW DELHI: Delhi authorities warned on Tuesday that they expect cases in the Indian capital to shoot up almost 20 times to more than half a million in the coming weeks. India is easing its national lockdown to ease the devastating economic blow dealt by the virus, but the disease is still raging across the world’s second-most populous nation with …

MOSCOW: A baby was born with the coronavirus in Russia’s Caucasus region, health officials were quoted by TASS news agency as saying on Sunday, to a mother who is also infected. The birth in the North Ossetia city of Beslan follows one in mid-April in Peru, which health officials there said was the second known case of a Covid-19 positive …

BRASILIA: An indigenous leader whose body was found deep in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil last month drowned, officials said Friday, after an autopsy found no signs of violence. Tribal leaders had blamed Emyra Waiapi’s death on “non-indigenous people” after finding his remains in a river on July 23 — several days before heavily armed miners allegedly overran a …

United States airstrikes killed 17 policemen by mistake during a battle with insurgents in the country’s southern Helmand province, Afghan and US military officials said on Friday. Attaullah Afghan, head of the provincial council, said the airstrikes took place around 9pm (local time) on Thursday outside the province’s capital of Lashkar Gah, during clashes between Afghan police and the Taliban. …

ISLAMABAD: The Fina­ncial Action Task Force (FATF) is reported to have expressed a degree of satisfaction over Pakistan’s efforts and action plan to combat money laundering and terror financing under international obligations and indicated certain areas to do more before May this year to get out of the grey list. A high-level delegation led by Finance Secretary Arif Ahmed Khan …