The planned missile test has been dubbed by government sources "a desperate attempt to whip up tensions with India."
The government of Pakistan has decided to issue a formal diplomatic notice to India over its "unilateral decision" to put the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance after the Pehalgam terror attack in which 26 innocent civilians were gunned down by four terrorists, including two Pakistanis
Namibia has recorded 56,130 malaria cases and 95 deaths since the beginning of the current malaria season in December 2024, Health Minister Esperance Luvindao said.
Malawi recorded one more confirmed mpox case, bringing the total number of cases to six since the first three were confirmed in April.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz, in a joint statement, said on Friday that Israel carried out overnight attacks near the presidential palace in Syria's capital, Damascus.
A joint statement led by the World Bank was issued recently to call for urgent action to address the global food security crisis.
The agreement came at the 9th High-Level Economic and Trade Dialogue held via video link on Tuesday. Chinese Vice-Premier Liu He and Valdis Dombrovskis, executive vice president of the European Commission, co-chaired the doialogue.
Myanmar is not a signatory to the United Nations convention that prohibits the use, stockpiling or development of anti-personnel mines.
In his next 45 years as a ruling or opposition leader, Mr Wickremesinghe was known as erudite but arrogant, and rich but relatively uncorrupt.
The IMF and Pakistan reached a staff-level agreement last week that they hoped would stabilise the country’s economy and depreciating currency.
