BEIJING: China on Friday defended Pakistan's counter-terrorism efforts, following President Donald Trump's accusation that Islamabad harbours…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday inaugurated the country's fifth nuclear power plant, developed in collaboration with China amid hopes that his government could end chronic power shortages this year, reports AFP. Pakistan is one of the few developing countries pursuing…

London: Doctors in the western Indian state of Gujarat have successfully extracted seven teeth from a one-month old infant, reports BBC. "The baby is doing fine now," dental surgeon Dr Meet Ramatri, who carried out the operation in August told BBC Hindi's Sushila Singh. He said that the…

MOSCOW: Russia claimed Friday to have killed several top commanders of the Islamic State group in an air strike in Syria, including the US-trained "minister of war" who has a $3 million bounty on his head, reports AFP. "As a result of a precision air strike of the Russian air forces in…

Haiti: Hurricane Irma ripped through the Caribbean on Friday, leaving a trail of devastation and killing 17 as it barrelled towards the United States…

BEIJING: China has tightened regulations on religious freedom, intensifying punishments for unsanctioned activities and increasing its supervision of certain groups in a bid to "block extremism" and tackle what it sees as internal threats, reports AFP. The updated rules, released by China's…