Pakistan and China yesterday signed a $4.8 billion deal to build a 1,200-MW nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said, hailing the investment by a country that Pakistan views as its most dependable ally. Work on Chashma 5 project would begin immediately, Sharif said on PTV following the signing of MOU between China National Nuclear Cooperation and Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission.

Himalayan glaciers providing critical water to nearly two billion people are melting faster than ever before due to climate change, exposing communities to unpredictable and costly disasters, scientists warned yesterday.

Russia attacked military and infrastructure targets across Ukraine early yesterday, including in the capital Kyiv and the western city of Lviv, Ukrainian officials said.

A submersible taking wealthy tourists to visit the site of the Titanic wreckage in deep waters off the coast of Canada was missing for a third day on Tuesday, as US and Canadian ships and planes swept a huge area trying to find the vessel

A Chinese national was charged Tuesday after allegedly attacking diners with an axe-like weapon at three restaurants in New Zealand's largest city, injuring four.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba announced on Tuesday that it will replace chairman and CEO Daniel Zhang with current executive vice chairman Joseph Tsai in September

China and the United States agreed on Monday to stabilise their intense rivalry so it does not veer into conflict, but failed to produce any major breakthrough during a rare visit to Beijing by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

US and Canadian coast guard teams were racing Monday to locate a submersible vessel with five people aboard, including a billionaire tourist, that went missing on a dive to the Titanic's wreckage in the North Atlantic

Sudan is descending into death and destruction at an unprecedented speed, UN chief Antonio Guterres said yesterday as he urged donors to step in and curb the unfolding catastrophe.

Ukraine confirmed yesterday it had driven Russian forces from an eighth village in its two-week-old counteroffensive in a heavily fortified part of the front line on the most direct route to the country’s Azov Sea coast.

Europe should brace for more deadly heatwaves driven by climate change, said a sweeping report yesterday, noting the world’s fastest-warming continent was some 2.3 degrees Celsius hotter last year than in pre-industrial times.

The world’s first international treaty to protect the high seas was adopted yesterday at the United Nations, a landmark environmental accord designed to protect remote ecosystems vital to humanity.

A boat that capsized off the coast of Greece last week was carrying around 800 people, according to an initial investigation by police in Pakistan, which declared a national day of mourning yesterday.

Israeli commandoes backed by helicopter gunships killed five Palestinians including a teenager and wounded as many as 66 others as a raid in the West Bank led to an hours-long gunbattle with armed fighters, the military and health officials said

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said today in Beijing that China had renewed promises not to send arms to Russia to fight in Ukraine, although he voiced concern at the actions of private Chinese firms

President Xi Jinping said the United States and China had "made progress" on a number of issues today as he hosted US Secretary of State Antony Blinken for talks in Beijing..Blinken's visit is the highest-level trip by a US official to China in nearly five years with ties severely strained

Clashes between farmers and herders killed at least 13 people in central Nigeria over the weekend, community leaders and local authorities told AFP on Sunday

The number of people arriving in the UK in small boats has reached over 10,000 since the start of the year, UK government figures showed yesterday.

Malians voted yesterday on whether to back a draft constitution drawn up by the governing junta which has fuelled speculation that the country’s strongman ruler will seek election.

The Swiss, feeling the impact of global warming on their rapidly melting glaciers, yesterday backed a new climate bill aimed at steering their country towards carbon neutrality by 2050.