BEIJING: Heavy rain pounded Beijing on Wednesday as the remnants of Typhoon Dolphin swept across northern China, flooding key roads and stranding vehicles after the storm set rainfall records in central and eastern provinces. The capital declared its second-highest rainstorm warning, suspending 250 bus routes and closing 150 tourist attractions, while 10 subway lines ran...
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on Tuesday, in an effort to revive Pakistan’s stalled mediation between Iran and the United States. Naqvi was received on arrival by his Iranian counterpart Eskandar Momeni before holding talks with Araghchi. A diplomatic source told Dawn from...
BOGOTÁ: The death toll from the earthquake that struck Colombia has climbed to 254, according to foreign media reports. The heaviest losses were recorded in two cities: 101 deaths in Pereira and 95 in Cali. Around 100 aftershocks have been recorded since the main quake, spreading fear through already damaged neighbourhoods and complicating search operations....
RIYADH: Bangladesh’s foreign ministry said it was in deep shock after 16 of its nationals died in a factory fire in the Saudi capital. In a statement, the ministry reported the deaths at a sofa manufacturing factory in Riyadh. The blaze broke out on Sunday at a facility in the industrial area of the Al...
DAMASCUS: A Syrian court on Tuesday sentenced former ruler Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia after convicting him of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the country’s civil war. The ruling is the first of its kind under the transitional authorities, who began trying figures from the former government this year, both in...
PEREIRA: At least 111 people were killed and 87 injured when a powerful earthquake struck western Colombia early on Monday, flattening buildings across several cities and leaving residents trapped in the rubble. The 7.4-magnitude quake hit at 7:34am, with its epicentre in the coastal Chocó region at a depth of 100km. Colombia declared a state...
DUBAI: US President Donald Trump on Monday demanded that Iran pay compensation for people he said it had killed in wars, attacks and protests, sharply raising the rhetorical stakes with Tehran just as hopes faded for an early deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump framed the demand as a response to Iran’s earlier...
WASHINGTON: Former US president Joe Biden’s cancer has metastasised further, according to his son Hunter Biden, who disclosed the update in an interview with the BBC. In May 2025, four months after leaving office as the oldest sitting president in American history, the elder Biden revealed he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of...
BERLIN: Germany faces daily hybrid warfare attacks from abroad, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said, following a suspected attack attempt involving an explosive-laden drone at Leipzig/Halle Airport. Speaking to the newspaper *Bild am Sonntag*, Dobrindt said foreign powers were seeking to subdue Germany politically and socially by stirring up fear. He said the country was not...
BOGOTÁ: A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday morning, killing dozens of people, flattening buildings across several cities and trapping residents under debris. The epicentre was near San José del Palmar, a community of roughly 4,800 people in the Chocó region, some 400 kilometres west of Bogotá, according to the US Geological...