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At the invitation of the Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister,  Liu Haixing, Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee (IDCPC), arrived here on a three-day official visit to Pakistan. According to the Foreign Office, he was received by Senator Anusha Rahman Khan and Dr Mohammad Faisal, Additional Secretary (Asia Pacific), Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Minister of IDCPC will call on the leadership of Pakistan and co-chair a high-level event alongside the Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister in Islamabad on 2 November 2026. This visit is a part of…

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US President Donald Trump’s White House has spent months preparing for a possible Democratic takeover of Congress, developing plans to keep advancing major parts of his agenda through executive power while bracing for ​investigations of his administration, according to a White House official and two people familiar with the plans. Senior officials, including deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and budget director Russell Vought, have been working with the ‌White House Counsel’s Office since April to identify executive actions on immigration, tariffs, housing costs and federal spending that Trump could…

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Authorities began evacuating people along India’s eastern ​coast on Monday, a day before ‌a severe cyclonic storm is expected to make landfall in a region recovering from a deadly ​cyclone last week. Cyclone Murasu is ​expected to be less intense than ⁠last week’s cyclone Arnab, where six ​people were killed, and dozens of houses ​and crops were destroyed. India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast Murasu to make landfall in the early ​hours of Tuesday. “Around 2,000 people have ​been evacuated, and the process is continuing. We are ‌planning ⁠to evacuate…

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A prominent Michigan Democrat endorsed Republican Mike Rogers on Sunday, giving President Donald Trump’s Republicans an unexpected boost in ​a critical US Senate race two days before midterm elections that will decide control of Congress. US Representative Haley Stevens, who lost the Michigan Democrats’ Senate primary to Abdul El Sayed in a bitterly ‌contested race, publicly backed Rogers and appeared with him at a Detroit church, threatening to worsen divisions in a state viewed as crucial to Democratic hopes of retaking the US Senate. “I don’t belong in Abdul’s campaign,”…

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Oil prices slipped more than 3% on Monday after Iranian and Qatari officials ‌held a third straight day of talks aimed at pushing for a deal to end the US-Israeli war on Iran. Brent crude futures fell $3.68, or 3.2%, to $109.75 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate crude ​was at $100.69 a barrel, down $3.43, or 3.3%. Brent ended October at its highest in six ​months amid concerns that the US-Iran conflict could escalate again after Tuesday’s US midterm ⁠elections. “Oil is seeing a technical pullback this morning…

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The four members of a crew who took part in a simulated mission to Mars have emerged after 378 days in isolation ​at the US space agency’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, an endeavour designed to help prepare for a ‌possible future excursion by NASA astronauts to Earth’s planetary neighbour. “It’s been a hell of a year — analogue astronauts living in captivity of our own free will,” Ellen Ellis, the medical officer on the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analogue, or CHAPEA, mission, said in remarks at Johnson Space…

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A tearful Kimi Antonelli became Formula One’s youngest world champion at 20 years and 68 days old on Sunday when he finished third for Mercedes in a red-flagged and restarted ​Mexico City Grand Prix won by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. The first Italian champion since 1953 sobbed with joy over the team radio as he took the chequered flag at the high-altitude ‌Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, with his overall lead now an unassailable 119 points. Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton started from pole position and took a close second place – after clashing…

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US President Donald Trump spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about whether and when to intensify military operations against Iran, US media reported on Sunday. Axios, citing one US and one Israeli official, reported that the two leaders discussed the state of negotiations with Tehran, with Netanyahu urging Trump to launch strikes immediately after the US midterm elections, while the US president favoured allowing diplomacy to continue. The Israeli official described the call as “tough”, while the US official called it “direct”, according to the report. Throughout the eight-month…

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A Learjet crashed on Sunday afternoon in a residential area in Palm Beach County, Florida, ‌killing all nine people on board, US transportation officials said. The private jet had taken off from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas and was headed to North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. Videos on social ​media showed the jet slamming into the ground next to a road and exploding. “It was a ​big-time tragedy that happened,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said at a press conference near ⁠the…

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US President Donald Trump has warned that Iran could face another major military offensive if it fails to reach a deal with Washington, while insisting the conflict would end “very soon”, either through diplomacy or further military action. Speaking to Right Side Broadcasting Network before a campaign rally in Iowa on Sunday, Trump said the United States had achieved a major victory and would soon bring the war to an end. “We’ve had such a victory, and we’ll put it away very soon, one way or the other. Either they’ll…

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