As India and Pakistan celebrate Independence Day one day apart, the scars of the devastating partition of the two countries remain apparent. Every year, Indians and Pakistanis who lived through the era, or whose ancestors did, recall how suddenly and abruptly the lines between the two nations were drawn. For this, they have one person
Balochistan Home Minister Mir Ziaullah Langove escaped unharmed on Friday after his convoy came under attack in the Khad Kocha area of Mastung district, though six people, including three police personnel, were injured in the assault. Langove was travelling from Kalat to Quetta when gunmen targeted his convoy in the Khad Kocha area. According to
Firefighters across Europe were battling multiple wildfires on Friday as record-breaking heat and severe drought turned large parts of the continent into tinderboxes, forcing thousands of people to evacuate and putting homes, forests and critical infrastructure at risk. Officials have linked the extreme temperatures to human-caused climate change, a challenge that’s proving especially difficult for
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has spoken publicly for the first time about Operation Sindoor, India’s military response to the April 2025 Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians. His comments come as part of an upcoming Discovery docuseries, Declassified: Operation Sindoor, which chronicles the 88-hour operation through first-hand accounts from senior military and national
The village of Piddington has voted to leave the United Kingdom in protest against the government’s decision to house migrants in a former military base nearby. The village, home to just 350 people in Oxfordshire, England, held a referendum and voted to leave the UK in a symbolic protest with no legal effect. The referendum
The Trump administration has launched a global task force aimed at cracking down on so-called “birth tourism,” targeting people accused of misusing US visas to travel to the country specifically to give birth. The State Department announced the Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force on August 12, saying it would work alongside the Department of Homeland
The Director General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Wednesday that the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to surpass the deadliest outbreak of the disease ever recorded. Speaking to reporters, he said that at its current pace, the 2026 outbreak would “eclipse” the 2014-2016
Pakistan’s military on Wednesday issued a rare public denial of viral rumours that jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan had died in custody at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail, following 24 hours of severe political unrest and public anxiety across the country. The crisis erupted after US-based Pakistani journalist Wajahat Saeed Khan published a two-part video broadcast,
China said on Wednesday that the India-China border situation is “generally stable,” while declining to comment on reports of increased Chinese military activity near Arunachal Pradesh. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun instead pointed to the 36th meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on China-India Border Affairs (WMCC), held in New Delhi
Typhoon Dolphin, the strongest storm to hit China this year, has weakened after making landfall but continues to cause widespread disruption across the country, with torrential rain flooding roads, disrupting transport and forcing more than a million people to evacuate their homes. Beijing was among the areas hit by heavy rain on Wednesday as the
