ISLAMABAD, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 20th Aug, 2026) Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic Asaad Hassan Al-Shaibani arrived here Thursday on an official visit, at the invitation of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar. Upon his arrival, Additional Secretary (middle East) Ministry of Foreign…
ISLAMABAD, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 20th Aug, 2026) Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday paid rich tribute to Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas (Nishan-e-Haider) on his 55th martyrdom anniversary, lauding his valor and sacrifice to safeguard the motherland. The prime minister, in a message on the martyrdom anniversary, said that the great…
KINSHASA, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM – 20th Aug, 2026) The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo now exceeds 5,000, government data showed late on Tuesday, as health officials warn that response efforts are failing to contain the deadly disease, Reuters reported. Congo’s 17th Ebola epidemic turned into…
WASHINGTON, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM – 20th Aug, 2026) The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory was called off Wednesday, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later this year, AP reported. NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies announced the news more than a month after the startup’s Link spacecraft rocketed away…
WASHINGTON, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM – 20th Aug, 2026) Moderna shares more than doubled Wednesday after it announced initial results from a study of an experimental cancer treatment that would be the first of its kind if approved by regulators. Moderna and Merck are developing a treatment using an mRNA-based cancer vaccine…
VIENNA, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM – 20th Aug, 2026) The number of new asylum applications in Austria dropped to its lowest level in 10 years, recording 244 applications in July, representing a year-on-year decline of approximately 65 percent. Official figures revealed a 48 percent drop in the total number of new and…
WASHINGTON, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM – 20th Aug, 2026) The United States Department of the Treasury announced that total US national debt has surpassed the $40 trillion mark for the first time, driven by rising costs for entitlement programmes and interest payments alongside falling revenues. The Treasury’s daily statement showed total debt…
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abdul Kareem took notice of the killing of two persons in firing by alleged opponents in Phalia, Mandi Bahauddin, and ordered immediate arrest of the suspects involved in the incident LAHORE, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 19th Aug, 2026) Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abdul Kareem took…
Secretary General Developing-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation (D-8), Ambassador Sohail Mahmood on Wednesday paid a courtesy visit to the headquarters of the Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC) in Ankara ISLAMABAD, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 19th Aug, 2026) Secretary General Developing-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation…
ISLAMABAD, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 19th Aug, 2026) The Supreme Court has ruled that any quantity of narcotics that has not undergone chemical analysis could not legally be taken into consideration for upholding a conviction or determining the quantum of sentence, holding that only the quantity subjected to forensic examination could…
