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ISLAMABAD – Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, said on Tuesday that Pakistan was under “pressure” from the United States and other Western powers over his country’s all-weather relationship with China and pledged not to ever bend under pressure. Pakistan and China have a “very special relationship” that spans over 70 …

TASHKENT – The Uzbekistan-Turkey business forum was held in Tashkent, the Uzbekistan Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade said Wednesday. The event was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan, Sardor Umurzakov, Turkish Vice President, Fuat Oktay, heads of line government agencies, and …

MATERA, Italy – Foreign and Development Ministers of the world’s 20 largest economies on Tuesday called on the entire international community to build inclusive and resilient food chains to ensure adequate nutrition for all, in accordance with the “Zero Hunger” goal set for 2030. In their first face-to-face meetings in …

NEW YORK – The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has called on US President Joe Biden’s administration to lift all sanctions against Iran, as agreed as part of a 2015 deal to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. In a report to the UN Security Council, Guterres also urged the …

RIYADH – Saudi Arabia plans to start a second national airline in a bid to transform the oil-rich kingdom into a transportation hub and help diversify its economy. The strategy also includes increasing air connectivity to 250 destinations and doubling air cargo capacity to 4.5 million tons, Saudi Crown Prince, …

MOSCOW – About 20 aircraft and helicopters, several divisions of the S-400 and Pantsir-S air defense systems conducted a training check-in in Crimea against the background of the Sea Breeze exercises of Ukraine, the United States, and other NATO countries that started the day before. “A total of around 20 …

KUALA LUMPUR – A growing global push to protect nature by pledging to protect about a third of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030 will not meet this goal unless countries in Southeast Asia Biodiversity-rich do not support the ambitious proposal, environmentalists have warned. This month, the leaders of …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) on Monday signed a $4.5 billion framework agreement for a commercial loan to finance oil and gas imports amid only 55% utilisation of a similar three-year facility. The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) signed the three-year framework agreement for a …

BEIJING – Chinese President, Xi Jinping, and Russian president, Vladimir Putin, agreed on Monday to work together as they extend a 20-year-old bilateral friendship and cooperation agreement to forge closer ties, as the United States and the EU are pushing against both countries over human rights and a host of …

WASHINGTON – The number of Covid-19 cases worldwide topped 181 million on Tuesday, even with mass vaccinations underway. The total number of cases and deaths stood at 181,388,210 and 3,928,804, respectively, as of Tuesday morning, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU). So far, 2,966,241,644 doses of vaccine have been administered …