
PAKISTAN
ADB approves $1.2bn package for Pakistan
The Asian Development Bank announces its decision to extend new annual package worth $1.2 billion to Pakistan.

The Asian Development Bank announces its decision to extend new annual package worth $1.2 billion to Pakistan.

A senior Iranian diplomat says Iran welcomes dialog with Saudi Arabia to restore regional peace.

A bomb attack claims the lives of at least six people in northeastern Nigeria.

Young Iranian taekwondo practitioners win ten medals at the second edition of the WTF World Cadet Taekwondo Championships in South Korea.

Iran launches the production line of a cruise missile with its defense minister saying the air-launched missile will upgrade the country's deterrence might.

Iran calls on the IAEA to guarantee the confidentiality of information it will gather on Tehran’s nuclear program.

Iran condemns a militant raid on an IRIB journalist operating in Syria, calling for global action over attacks against journalists.

Global stock markets rebound as China cuts its key interest rates to help economy.

Black students are suspended or expelled at rates overwhelmingly higher than white children in the US.

Eleven people including several children are killed in a series of explosions at gas storage facility in Afghanistan.

A number of Saudi soldiers are killed as Yemeni forces fire rockets at a Saudi military site in the southern Jizan region.

Obama has described the opponents of his administration’s July 14 nuclear agreement with Iran as some crazy people.

Pro-Palestine activists say they have organized a protest against Tel Aviv during an EU soccer qualifier between Israel and Wales.

At least four civilians are killed in a Saudi airstrike on a residential area in the western Yemeni province of Hudaydah.

The Syrian president calls the militants operating in Syria as the agents of Israel.

Russia is to put its latest military hardware on display at the MAKS 2015 show.

The US will accept between 5,000 and 8,000 Syrian refugees in 2016, according to the State Department.

Early elections have been called in Singapore shortly after the parliament was dismissed.