KARACHI: Extreme heat in Pakistan is transitioning from short, episodic spikes to chronic, season-long and potentially year-round hazards, with Karachi emerging among Asia’s hottest megacities, the UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has warned in a new report.

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NEW YORK: The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade kicks off Thursday in New York City, with new balloons depicting Buzz Lightyear and Pac-Man set to take to the skies and floats featuring Labubu and Lego gracing the streets. The parade is scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m. EST, rain or shine, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side

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LIMA: A Peruvian court will issue its verdict on Thursday in the trial of former left-wing president Pedro Castillo, who was impeached and jailed all in the same day in 2022 following a power grab attempt. Dubbed Peru’s first poor president, the former rural schoolteacher and trade unionist, who had never held elected office before

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CARACAS: Venezuela’s aviation authority said Wednesday that it banned multiple airlines accused of “terrorism” after they suspended routes, heeding warnings from the United States about military activity in the region.

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HONG KONG: A huge fire still burning in a Hong Kong apartment complex that has killed at least 44 people and left nearly 300 missing may have been spread by unsafe scaffolding and foam materials used during maintenance work, police said on Thursday. Working through the night, firefighters were struggling to reach residents potentially trapped

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RIO CAUTO: Thousands of Cubans remain without power, water or proper shelter almost a month after Hurricane Melissa pummeled the island’s eastern region as one of the strongest Atlantic storms in history. By day, families walk toward the nearest river to fill plastic containers with water and by night, they squeeze together to sleep under

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VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip, a pilgrimage to Turkiye and Lebanon that would be delicate under any circumstances but is even more fraught given Mideast tensions and the media glare that will document history’s first American pope on the road. Leo is fulfilling a trip Pope Francis planned

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif has warned Afghanistan that its recent tensions with Islamabad will cause the country to be totally isolated globally and ultimately result in its “collapse” as bilateral tensions surge again.  Asif was reacting to Afghan government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid, who accused Pakistan of launching overnight airstrikes in Afghanistan on

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BERNALILLO: Unconditional love. That’s what Vangie Randall-Shorty felt the moment she first held her son. She still feels it — even though Zachariah Shorty is now gone. “I carry him in my heart every day,” she said, while trying to find the words to describe the wave of emotions that washed over her Monday when

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National parks announce ‘America-first’ upcharges for foreign visitors  The Washington Post Department of the Interior Announces Modernized, More Affordable National Park Access  U.S. Department of the Interior (.gov) Trump Administration Will Raise Prices for Foreign Tourists at National Parks  The New York Times US triples national park fee for non-residents, amid ‘new’ fee for Americans  The Guardian Trump admin

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