Year: 2026

Pakistan were on course to set a challenging target against Sri Lanka in the Rawalpindi Test after their batters gave them a good start on Monday. Earlier, Sri Lanka won the toss and invited Pakistan to bat first. Pakistan’s opening pair provided a solid start of 86 runs before Azaan Awais was dismissed for 30. Making his Test debut, Tayyab Arif struck an impressive half-century off 46 balls and scored 57 before returning to the pavilion. Captain Babar Azam, who appeared in good touch, also scored a fifty before being…

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In a significant development in the investigation into the murder of NADRA Assistant Director Fahad Khan, the Peshawar police have identified four suspected attackers and the alleged mastermind, sources said on Monday. The sources said the breakthrough was achieved with the help of CCTV footage. According to the sources, four suspects riding two motorcycles followed Fahad Khan from the University Town area and tracked his movements before shooting him. Investigators have traced their movements before and after the attack, including their escape route. The sources said that Khan usually travelled…

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Security forces have cleared two suspected hideouts of Fitna Al Khawarij established inside mosques in North Waziristan’s Mir Ali area, recovering a large quantity of explosives, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), weapons and ammunition, the military’s media wing said on Monday. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), an intelligence-based operation was conducted on November 8 in Mazdak village, located on the southern outskirts of Mir Ali, following reports about the presence of militants. The ISPR said the militants had been using the mosques to store explosives and had also established…

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Leaders of the COP31 climate summit urged the world to accelerate the fight against global warming ​as rising temperatures and an increasing number of climate-driven disasters threaten lives and the global economy, as the annual meeting began in Turkey on Monday. ‌The comments at the start of the two-week UN conference were an appeal to governments to focus on climate, even as other international crises from war to soaring inflation and the uncertainty of AI compete for their attention. “The urgency of this moment must drive us forward,” UN Climate…

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A covert Russian network sought to exploit last month’s riots in France by using social media to blame the unrest on ​uncontrolled immigration and portray the government as having lost control, according to an internal EU assessment seen by Reuters. A separate internal assessment, compiled by France’s foreign ‌ministry and also seen by Reuters, found that social media accounts linked to Israel and to the US MAGA movement also pushed “hostile narratives” around the riots, linking them to radical Islamism and migration. Taken together, the assessments offer an insight into…

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President Donald Trump said ​on Sunday he thinks he will meet Chinese President ‌Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at an APEC leaders’ summit in China next week and discuss ending the ​war in Iran and denuclearisation. Trump told reporters before ​flying back to Washington from Florida that he ⁠will travel to China for the APEC summit, ​set for November 18-19 in the southern tech hub ​of Shenzhen. “One of the meetings, I think, will be with President Putin and President Xi, and that’ll be interesting. We’re talking ​a…

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