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Islamabad, Jan 22 (UNI) A joint military training between the Pakistan Army and Royal Saudi Land Forces kicked off on Sunday in Okara district in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab Province, the Pakistani military said. At the inauguration of the training in Okara Garrison organised by the Multan Corps of the Pakistan Army, the contingents of both…

Washington, Jan 22 (UNI) US entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk has ruled out the possibility of him voting for US President Joe Biden in the 2024 election. “I cannot see myself voting for Biden this time,” Musk wrote on X on Sunday. The US billionaire has written the comment under a video of himself giving…

Gaza, Jan 21 (UNI) The death toll from Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, when the Israel-Hamas conflict escalated, has increased to 25,105, while more than 62,600 others have been injured, the enclave’s health ministry said on Sunday. “The number of victims of the Israeli aggression since October 7 last year…

Manila, Jan 21 (UNI) The death toll due to landslides and severe flooding in the Davao region in southern Philippines has climbed to 15, official data showed on Sunday. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said that 13 people died in Davao de Oro province and two in Davao City. The agency also…

Colombo, Jan 20 (UNI) Sri Lanka’s navy confiscated two multi-day trawlers transporting over 60 kg of drugs, suspected to be heroin, the navy said in a statement on Saturday. The navy also arrested 11 suspects who were in the vessels in a Friday special operation in the southern sea, around 100 nautical miles off Dondra…

Seoul, Jan 20 (UNI) South Korea and the United States agreed to boost cooperation against North Korea’s cyber threats, Yonhap news agency reported. It cited the South’s Foreign Ministry as saying in a statement that the Republic of Korea and the US held a working-level cyber policy meeting Friday. The ministry said the two sides…

Washington, Jan 20 (UNI) Microsoft cybersecurity personnel detected and disrupted an alleged cyber attack by a Russian state-backed actor, the Microsoft Security Response Center said in a statement. “The Microsoft security team detected a nation-state attack on our corporate systems on January 12, 2024, and immediately activated our response process to investigate, disrupt malicious activity,…

Islamabad, Jan 20 (UNI) Pakistani caretaker Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar said on Friday evening that it is in the interest of both Pakistan and Iran to take steps to restore the relationship to what it was before the recent tension in relations. According to a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office on Friday night,…

Vienna, Jan 20 (UNI) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Friday its experts had once again detected mines along the perimeter of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP). “Mines along the perimeter of the ZNPP, in a buffer zone between the facility’s internal and external fences, which were previously identified by the IAEA…

Washington, Jan 20 (UNI) The Astrobotic Company is planning to go ahead with its scheduled Griffin unmanned mission to the Moon despite the disastrous failure of its Peregrine 1 mission carrying five payloads for NASA earlier this week, company CEO John Thornton told a media teleconference on Friday. “Our plan is to proceed with Griffin…