
PAKISTAN
Pakistan heat wave toll tops 1,000
The death toll from a scorching heat wave in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh climbs to 1,011.

The death toll from a scorching heat wave in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh climbs to 1,011.

At least 13 people are killed in a fire at an apartment building in central China.

Wildfires are raging throughout large areas of the drought-stricken West Coast of the United States.

ISIL militants advance into the Kurdish city of Kobani in Syria, months after they were driven out of it.

A US military plane has crashed in Arizona and the status of the pilot is unknown.

Iran’s president says Tehran will continue nuclear talks with the P5+1 countries under the aegis of Leader’s guidelines.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham urges Obama to walk away from nuclear negotiations with Iran.

Dozens of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood members are sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Iran is building a multi-purpose port near the Strait of Hormuz with 700 million euros of foreign investment, the state news agency IRNA reported on Thursday.

The Israel lobby is seeking to forestall a nuclear agreement with Iran and ignite another war in the Middle East, a political commentator says.

The Arab League calls for release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

At least 15 Boko Haram militants are killed in a fresh operation by Niger’s military.

At least seven people are killed in flash flooding in northern Vietnam.

A top German intelligence official warns that a growing number of German females are joining the ISIL Takfiri group.

President Obama has assured his French counterpart Francois Hollande that the US is no longer spying on France.

Obama has urged China to take "concrete steps" to ease tensions over cyber hacking and its maritime activities.

The second vice president of Burundi blasts the president’s third bid for re-election and escapes from the country.

The Saudi military says three of its soldiers and one Emirati trooper have been killed in Yemen's retaliatory attacks.