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Heavy rainfall and landslides have severed Gilgit-Baltistan’s road connections with other parts of Pakistan. Officials reported that several sections of the Karakoram Highway in Upper Kohistan were blocked due to rain and landslides, halting traffic. Hundreds of passengers and cargo vehicles have been stranded, causing significant difficulties. Authorities are carrying out rescue and repair operations to restore road access as quickly as possible. District officials confirmed that 60 stranded passengers have been safely moved to a temporary shelter.

The martyrdom day of Ali ibn Abi Talib is being observed across the country with deep religious devotion and respect, with processions taking place in various large and small cities under strict security arrangements. In Karachi, several roads and streets in the Saddar area have been closed with the placement of containers as part of security measures. Prior to the main procession, a mourning gathering will be held at Nishtar Park. The central procession will conclude at Hussainia Iranian Imambargah. In Rawalpindi, the central Youm-e-Ali procession concluded after reaching Imambargah Colonel Maqbool. Similarly, in Peshawar, the procession ended at Imambargah…

Britain has set out a new advisory definition of what it calls anti-Muslim hostility, a long-anticipated step in its plan to clarify how ‌authorities should identify and address abuse targeting Muslims, which is at record levels. The move follows years of political deadlock over how to define anti-Muslim hatred in a way that helps consistent application of the law, but does not ⁠shut down or criminalise open debate about religious extremism. There were almost 4,500 hate crimes targeting Muslims in the year ending March 2025, accounting for nearly half of all religiously motivated offences in England and Wales. This data…

WASHINGTON: The US military “eliminated” 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, the US Central Command said in a statement, as President Donald Trump warned that any mines laid in the Strait by Iran must be removed immediately. Trump previously said the US had “completely destroyed” 10 inactive mine-laying vessels. In apparent response to media reports that Iran had begun laying mines in the waterway, a key passage for oil shipments, Trump posted on Truth Social: “If Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so,…

WASHINGTON: The US military has not yet escorted any commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz, the White House said on Tuesday, just after US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright deleted a post on X in which he had said the US Navy successfully escorted an oil tanker through the key waterway. The US-Israel war against Iran has already effectively halted shipments through the Strait along Iran’s coast, where a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas normally passes, and Middle East oil producers have run out of storage and stopped pumping. US President Donald Trump said on March…

Elon Musk is the wealthiest individual ever recorded, worth an estimated $839 billion, Forbes said on Tuesday, as a record 3,428 billionaires worldwide saw their combined fortunes surge to an all-time high of $20.1 trillion. Musk topped the Forbes World’s Billionaires list for the second consecutive year after his fortune swelled by roughly $500 billion over the past twelve months, driven by rising valuations at Tesla and SpaceX, which is targeting a public offering in 2026. He is the first person ever to surpass the $800 billion mark and is on course to become the world’s first trillionaire. “It’s the year of…

BEIJING : In China, AI technologies are advancing at an unprecedented pace, entering a phase of explosive growth. By the end of 2025, China was home to over 6,000 AI enterprises, with its core AI industry valued at more than 1.2 trillion yuan ($174.3 billion). At the same time, China’s intelligent computing power capacity has exceeded 1,590 EFLOPS. In recent years, China has continued to strengthen basic research in AI. Both the quantity and quality of AI research papers produced in the country rank among the top globally. Data released in 2025 by the World Intellectual Property Organization showed that…

As a science journalist and filmmaker, my deep dive into the environment began in 2021 when the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) convened in Kunming, southwest China’s Yunnan Province. It was a lucky starting point. Biodiversity teaches a fundamental truth that many overlook: nature is not a collection of parts, it is a single, breathing system. I hope you keep this in mind as you read, for it is the essential key to understanding the Ecological and Environmental Code currently under deliberation in Beijing. For decades, China’s environmental protection efforts were a series of isolated battles. If a river was polluted, there was…

If you haven’t heard of OpenClaw yet, you will. In March 2026, this AI assistant became the fastest-growing open-source project in history, surpassing 250,000 GitHub stars – a milestone that took the Linux operating system years to reach. But within weeks of its explosive rise, government agencies were issuing security alerts. Researchers found over 40,000 vulnerable instances exposed on the internet. One critical flaw, dubbed “ClawJacked,” let hackers hijack your AI assistant simply by getting you to visit a malicious website. What happened? And what does it tell us about the future of AI? What is OpenClaw? Imagine an AI…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said  that the key to preventing further escalation of the situation regarding Iran lies in the United States and Israel halting their military operations, and that China does not approve of attacks on Gulf countries and condemns all attacks on civil facilities and innocent civilians. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks in a phone conversation with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar. Dar briefed Wang on Pakistan’s position on the current situation in Iran and called on all…