North Korea on Saturday lambasted a recent trilateral meeting between South Korea, the US and Japan that discussed peace in the Indo-Pacific region, deriding the talks as an "insult" to peace.
In a separate incident, two loud explosions were heard in Balochistan's Kharan on Friday, where the Frontier Corps South had found at least 30 kilogrammes of explosives at an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) factory.
The labour camp has a workforce of around 1500 Indian nationals hailing from different states of India.
Health authorities in Australia's second-most populous state have issued a warning over the spread of a flesh-eating ulcer.
US President-elect Donald Trump has reignited the national debate on illegal immigration, pledging that, on his first day of taking charge of the office, he would oversee the largest deportation operation in American history.
A Financial Times report said that as Omicron-led infections surge across Europe, a drive to vaccinate children aged five to 11 against Covid-19 is dividing opinion.
On December 23, more than 13 million people in the city in Shaanxi province were ordered to stay home last week as authorities sought to battle the Covid outbreak.
State authorities reported that the security situation has been restored as of December 29.
Pakistan on Friday reported 515 new COVID-19 cases in a single day nearly after two months.
Those measures were reimposed amid an alarming pace of new infections, with the government backtracking on its earlier plan to relax restrictions in phases to return to normalcy.
