The Chinese capital, Beijing, is capable of screening almost 1 million people a day for the novel coronavirus, an official said on Sunday, as testing continued across the city to try to contain the spread of a fresh outbreak. Beijing has been expanding testing in the city of 20 million since a cluster of infections linked to a food wholesale market erupted over a week ago. The outbreak, the first in Beijing in months, has now surpassed previous peak numbers in the city in early February. Testing was initially focused onRead More

A stabbing rampage in the southern English town of Reading, in which three people were killed and three others were seriously wounded, is being treated as terrorism, police said on Sunday. A 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after the stabbings on Saturday evening in a park in Reading, which is about 65 kilometres west of London. A British security source told Reuters that the man, who remains in police custody, is a Libyan. “Counter Terrorism Policing can now confirm that the stabbing incident that happened in Reading last night has nowRead More

ISLAMABAD: A day after the Supreme Court announced its verdict in the presidential reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa, the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) — one of the petitioners — was on Saturday having second thoughts and may file a review petition against a part of the judgement. Soon after the announcement of the judgement by a ten-judge full court, the PBC had issued a call to observe “Yaum-e-Tashak­kur” on Mon­day (June 22) to celebrate the victory of the cause of the rule of law, the constitutionalism and the independence of theRead More

JEDDHA (DNA)- Pakistan is most vulnerable to devastating impacts of climate change in the next 50 to 80 years, according to new research based on the latest generation of global climate models (CMIP6). Already among the countries most impacted by climate change, Pakistan needs to take “adaptation measures” to avert associated risks posed to Pakistan’s population, economy, water resources, agriculture and natural ecosystem, says a study. The study titled “Projections of Precipitation and Temperature over the South Asian Countries in CMIP6,” was conducted by Professor Mansour Almazroui and his teamRead More

KARACHI, June 21 (DNA): A man was shot dead while resisting a kidnap attempt in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Maymar neighbourhood on Saturday night.   According to local police, four suspects stormed the man’s residence in Gulshan-e-Maymar and tried to abduct his wife. They opened fire at him when he resisted the attempted kidnapping.   Upon being alerted, a police team reached the scene in no time and foiled the abduction.   The police said the suspects fired gunshots at the personnel and in an ensuing encounter, two of the suspected abductors wereRead More