The Makkah defence agreement signed by Pakistan, Turkiye and Saudi Arabia last month is a “defensive alliance”, with no plans to expand it at the moment, Pakistan’s foreign ministry spokesperson said yesterday.

When Donald Trump campaigned for a second term in the White House, he promised to be a “president of peace” who would stop foreign wars, not start them.

Girls are at greater risk of dropping out of education when their schools are hit by heatwaves, storms or wildfires linked to climate change, the UN children’s agency said yesterday.

An Israeli strike in Gaza yesterday killed a family of four including two children, Palestinian hospital and security sources said.

Philippine rescuers yesterday raced to extinguish a fire that erupted aboard a ferry near a tourist hotspot, killing at least five people and leaving 86 others missing, according to the coast guard.

Iran-aligned Houthis seized control of Yemen’s port city of Mocha yesterday and advanced down the Red Sea coast to strategic islands, military sources said, hours after President Donald Trump said he expected the Iran war to end after the US midterm elections.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced the release of tens of thousands of documents showing the city did not disclose all it knew about air toxicity after 9/11.

India will host the BRICS Leaders’ Summit tomorrow, seeking to lift the bloc’s global profile even as the US-led war on Iran splits its membership, with Tehran and Abu Dhabi on opposing sides of the conflict.

The EU’s climate monitor said yesterday that August was the hottest single month ever recorded globally, with ocean temperatures also reaching unprecedented highs as western Europe capped its warmest summer.

Twenty-five people died in a fire aboard a foreign cargo vessel undergoing repairs at a state-owned shipyard in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao yesterday, state media reported.

Algeria said yesterday it was cutting diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates following years of tension, with Algiers accusing Abu Dhabi of interfering in national and regional affairs.

Sudan’s army shot down drones belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces yesterday, a military source told AFP, after explosions were heard over the capital Khartoum.

Iran-aligned Houthis seized control of Yemen’s port city of Mocha yesterday and advanced down the Red Sea coast to strategic islands, military sources said, hours after President Donald Trump said he expected the Iran war to end after the US midterm elections.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would pay every American adult a $5,000 “Trump dividend” if Republicans retain control of Congress in November’s midterm election, an extraordinary attempt to persuade voters to back his party.

Pakistan’s Foreign Office says the alliance with Saudi Arabia and Turkiye must first consolidate before admitting new members

At least five people were killed and 87 remain unaccounted for after a fire erupted aboard a ferry near a tourist hotspot in the Philippine province of Palawan

Ocean temperatures also reached unprecedented highs as western Europe capped its warmest summer

He did not say where the money would come from, citing only that 'our country is making so much money.'

President Donald Trump said the United States may ​hit Iran's Pickaxe Mountain, urging Tehran ‌to be cautious

Pakistan security forces killed 11 terrorists and recovered 2.9 tonnes of explosives in separate intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in Balochistan’s Kharan and Washuk districts, the military’s media affairs wing said yesterday.