The food exports from the country surged by 26.68 percent during the first five months of the current fiscal year as compared to the exports of the corresponding period of last year, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported.

As end-of-year festivities approach, the UN health agency chief said countries should rein in national events linked to the holidays because allowing crowds to gather would be a "perfect platform" for Omicron to spread.

The deal would see Japan pay 1.05 trillion yen (around $9.3 billion) to the US over a five-year period, Japanese media reported on Tuesday. The agreement will be officially signed by the foreign and defense ministers of both countries, scheduled for sometime in January in the US.

The retaliatory move comes after a German court ruled that Russia was behind a 2019 assassination of a man in Berlin's Tiergarten park. Berlin had expelled two Russian diplomats in response. Russia ordered two German diplomats to leave on Monday

China's UN Ambassador Zhang Jun Humanitarian said aid and life-saving assistance must be able to reach the Afghan people without any hindrance. He further added that artificially created conditions or restrictions are not acceptable.

A key Democratic senator, Joe Manchin, has said he will vote against the administration’s $1.75 trillion Build Back Better plan. Pointing out to other risks such as the omicron variant and rising tensions with Russia and China, Manchin argued that the bill would raise the US debt.

Saudi Arabia and Iran, the region's Sunni Muslim and Shi'ite powerhouses, launched direct talks this year at a time global powers are trying to salvage a nuclear pact with Tehran and as U.N.-led efforts to end the Yemen war stall.

Stock options Musk was awarded in 2012 are set to expire in August next year. In order to exercise them, he has to pay income tax on the gain.

Israeli citizens and residents who are already abroad when a country is declared red must quarantine for a week after returning home.

The world's number two Test team will then return to Pakistan in April for five one-day internationals and five Twenty20 matches.

For "No Way Home" to break $1 billion worldwide, the film will surely need to do well in China, where it has yet to be granted a release date.

Territory of Afghanistan will not be used against anyone, acting Afghan top diplomat says at OIC session