Zelenskiy: Little progress in talks with US on missile defences

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukraine had made little progress in talks with the United States on expanding production of missile defences and was working with Europe to solve the matter. “Unfortunately, there has been no progress for a long time with America regarding the expansion of anti-ballistic missile production,” he said in … Read more

Militants blow up govt school, basic health unit in KP’s Tank

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Unidentified militants blew up a government middle school and a basic health unit (BHU) with explosive material late on Sunday night in the Chesan Kech area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Tank district, local sources said. According to local sources, the attackers targeted the Government Middle School for Boys and a BHU, causing severe … Read more

WHO chief says suspected Ebola deaths at 220 and ‘epidemic is outpacing us’

World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that there had been 220 suspected deaths in the current Ebola outbreak and that a delay in detecting cases meant responders were now “playing catch-up”. “We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us,” Tedros said, adding that … Read more

China’s Xi hails ‘unbreakable’ ties, praises Pakistan’s role in Iran peace efforts as he meets PM Shehbaz

China’s President Xi Jinping hailed Beijing’s “unbreakable” friendship with Pakistan on Monday as he met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Beijing, seeking to deepen the “all-weather” partnership between the two countries. PM Shehbaz landed in China on Saturday on a four-day official visit, reaching Beijing yesterday after making a stop in Hangzhou. Addressing bilateral talks … Read more