The Israeli military says troops found a tunnel with two living rooms in Majdal Zoun, while Lebanon’s state news agency reports further Israeli air strikes in the Nabatiyeh district.
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The Singapore-based firm, under scrutiny over alleged chip transfers to China, says she left on 30 August 2025 and that outside lawyers will investigate its export-control compliance.
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Manila’s foreign affairs secretary says talks reached provisional agreement on about 80 percent of the draft, but key issues, including whether it is legally binding, remain open.
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Romania says no one was hurt in the strikes near the Sulina canal; the prime minister blamed the security situation on Russia’s war.
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The 57-nation group will be led by Ireland and Tuvalu after Colombia, its founding host, left following a change of government.
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The two-thirds win dealt another setback to Pakatan Harapan; Chief Minister Ab Rauf Yusoh was sworn in for a second term on Sunday.
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The four foreign ministers say 150,000 tents are held at the border and call the situation “entirely reversible” as winter and floods hit displaced families.
Security officials say the Guadalajara cartel founder died in a hospital two days after being moved from prison, where he had been held since 1989.
The 19-year-old won 7-5, 6-3 in the final without dropping a set all week.
The IMF wants the fuel relief scheme phased out. Pakistan should do it on a clear timetable, keep help for its poorest families through BISP, and write a costed rule for the next oil shock.
Pakistan has built two good machines: one that knows who rides a motorcycle, and one that knows who is poor. Now it should connect them.
Fifteen newborns died after the August fire at Islamabad’s largest public hospital. Restructuring PIMS is welcome, but the inquiry’s real lesson was about warnings left unanswered. Every neonatal unit needs an audit, working alarms, open exits, and a public record of what has been fixed.
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Friday’s 130m-gallon shortfall is planned. The breakdowns in May and July were not. Dhabeji must stop being a single point of failure, and K-IV must arrive with the pipes to carry its water.
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A farm worker died in Lahore after a lioness attacked him during a TikTok shoot. Punjab already has rules for big cats. It needs inspections, seizures that stick, and protection for the workers.
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Naga and Kuki groups are making the same demands, a federal investigation and the other side’s gunmen gone, and both are keeping their dead unburied. Why National Highway 202 has become the front line of Manipur’s second conflict, and what the November 16 deadline tests.
Each community’s lifeline runs through the other’s ground. That is why the roads, not the villages, decide this conflict.
Government offices in Islamabad stop taking cash after November 30, and every merchant is meant to take digital payments by December 31. State Bank figures and a study of 816 merchants show why the offices are the easy part, and what it will take to bring the corner shop along.
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A week before he meets Trump in Shenzhen, China’s leader told his party that taking Taiwan is a mission it must complete. A frozen arms package, the chips both sides want, and the Iran war will all be on the table, and Pakistan has a stake in calm.
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The FBR is Rs95bn behind, interest costs are climbing again, and the foreign debt keeps rolling over. How the pieces fit, and which levers are real.
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“Despite this great tragedy, Lahore still gives me hope because of my journalist friend Sajjad Azhar Pirzada, who lives in Lahore, and other secular-minded people like him who live in Pakistan,” writes former Supreme Court of India Justice Markandey Katju.
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Justice Markandey Katju
“Do Pakistani journalists have nothing else to talk about except Imran Khan? … even if [Imran] is released and returns to power, [he] risks becoming the Pied Piper of Hamelin, leading his followers towards disillusionment and a rude awakening,” writes former Supreme Court of India Justice Markandey Katju.
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“This great language, which has produced perhaps the best poetry in modern India … and which is a shining gem in the treasury of Indian culture, is today neglected, and by some people even looked at with suspicion,” writes former Supreme Court of India Justice Markandey Katju.
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Read WestlineMinisters of both parties have spent a decade blaming the people in the queue. The numbers point at the people running it.
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The KHDA says private schools must report unexplained absences of five consecutive days, or when a pupil misses 10% of a term, under its student protection policy.
Chimaev ended the RAF main event early with a four-point throw, while Dvalishvili pinned Moraes in 90 seconds, three days after he was attacked in an Abu Dhabi hotel lobby.
The economic partnership agreement, announced during President Daniel Chapo’s visit to Abu Dhabi, will cut tariffs once it is signed and ratified, after non-oil trade between the two nearly doubled in 2025.
The coalition says two one-way attack drones were destroyed over Makkah on Sunday evening; its statement did not mention damage or casualties.
Southern forces say the move is meant to secure Aden and help break the Houthi siege of Taiz; the pullback could give the Houthis more leverage over the Red Sea chokepoint.
The coalition says two ballistic missiles were destroyed after a brief emergency alert in the capital, as fighting spreads in Marib and al-Jawf.
Chief Justice Yahya Afridi briefed the first 25 district judicial officers picked for a two-week programme at China’s National Judges College starting November 18, the Supreme Court said.
Climate Minister Musadik Malik also offered glacier data and research access to foreign scientists, and said a board has been set up for the youth fund.
Funeral prayers for Major Omer Minhas Nasir and Havildar Muhammad Adnan Khan were held in Rawalpindi on Sunday, with the prime minister and the army chief among those present.
Footage released on Tuesday shows ballistic and cruise missiles and their launchers in a tunnel complex. Iran has not said where it is, and the claims cannot be independently checked
UN monitors, US intelligence and Russia all warn of terrorist groups operating from Afghanistan, as Pakistan becomes the country most affected by terrorism.
A maritime security pact signed during President Muizzu’s visit gives Islamabad a foothold in waters New Delhi has long treated as its own backyard.
France beat Türkiye 2-1 to top Group A1, Belgium thrashed Italy 4-1, and Croatia beat Czechia 2-1 with a late goal.
Kane, Konsa, and White put England 3-0 up before Spain pulled two back after Elliot Anderson’s red card.
The third seed won 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in Turin to join Zverev as a first-round winner in the John McEnroe Group.
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