Month: November 2026

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…

Democrats hold a seven-point lead over Republicans in the race for control of Congress ahead of the November 3 midterm elections, as growing dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump and the US economy weighs on his party, according to a new NBC News poll. The survey, conducted among registered voters from October 28 to 30, found that 52% favoured a Democratic-controlled Congress, compared with 45% who preferred Republican control. According to the survey, Democrats managed a 21-point lead among independents. About 3% of respondents remained undecided. The survey showed that 60%…

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…

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…

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…