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SCO officials set to meet in Islamabad this week

National coordinators of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation will meet in Islamabad from September 28 to 30 under Pakistan’s 2026-27 chairmanship. The meeting will discuss the organisation’s upcoming activities, preparations for key events and broader cooperation. Pakistan plans to focus its chairmanship on connectivity, innovation, economic cooperation and people-to-people ties. Officials from member states and the SCO Secretariat will participate in the talks. Read More…

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Trump and Xi Turn to History After White House Summit

US President Donald Trump is set to accompany Chinese President Xi Jinping to the US National Archives following their White House summit. The visit is expected to highlight the history and evolution of US-China relations. While the summit produced limited visible breakthroughs, both leaders pointed to trade progress and artificial intelligence as areas for cooperation. Taiwan remained a key point of disagreement between Washington and Beijing. Read More…

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Dar Calls for End to Israeli Occupation

Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar called for an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories at an international meeting on the two-state solution. Pakistan reiterated support for an independent Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital. Dar said Islamabad would continue diplomatic efforts toward Palestinian self-determination and a lasting political settlement. Read More…

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‘Golan will remain Syrian territory’: Syrian President al-Sharaa

Al-Sharaa has said that any attempts to violate Syria’s sovereignty and international law “will be stopped”. He added, “Golan will remain Syrian territory,” and that any attempts to violate that will be “thwarted”, in accordance with Security Council Resolution 497. He thanked all who abided by international law and “those who refrained from reinterpreting Resolution 497”. Israel occupied the Golan Heights during the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed the territory in 1981. Read More…

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Dar Urges Global Action Over Palestine Crisis

Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar has urged urgent international attention to the situation in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, citing continued ceasefire violations, settler violence and annexation policies. Speaking at an OIC meeting in New York, he called for stronger diplomatic support for Palestinians and welcomed mediation efforts by the US, Egypt, Qatar and Türkiye to advance the Gaza peace process. Read More…

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Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon’s Shaqra leave two injured: State media

An Israeli air strike on the town of Shaqra, in the Bint Jbeil district in southern Lebanon, has resulted in injuries to two people, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reports. The two people have been transferred to the Tebnine Governmental Hospital, NNA said. The strikes happened earlier this morning, when artillery shelling was reportedly targeting Wadi Nahla on the outskirts of the town. Read More…

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Strikes in Minab, Lamerd not ‘an operational error’: Iranian official

Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, has said the findings of a UN mission confirm that “what happened in Minab and Lamerd was a clear war crime, not an operational error.” Gharibabadi was referring to February’s deadly missile strikes on a primary school in Minab and a sports complex in Lamerd. A UN-backed fact-finding mission said on Thursday that there were “reasonable grounds” to believe the US was behind the attacks and that they constituted war crimes. Read More…

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US may have to ‘accept reality on the ground’ after war on Iran

Mohamad Elmasry, a professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says the reputation of US military power has been severely damaged internationally after attacking Iran in February. “The US reputation has been irrevocably harmed during the course of this war; there’s no question about that,” Elmasry told Al Jazeera. While Trump claims oil tankers are moving through the Strait of Hormuz with greater frequency, “at the end of the day the tracking data are what they are, and there are very few ships getting through”, he noted. Read More…

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