Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan sign defence pact amid regional war

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed a joint defence agreement on Friday amid violence in the region from Houthi attacks and the US-Iran war.

Saudi military says Houthi attacks left 11 civilians, including a child, injured near Yemen border

More than 10 civilians, including a 4-year-old child, were injured in Saudi Arabia on Thursday after a series of attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, according to the Saudi military.

Meta says its AI went rogue

Meta has become the third major tech company to report its AI going rogue and hacking a third-party company. The incident involved Muse Spark 1.1, an AI model marketed by the company as “superintelligent.”

Iran says Hormuz deal ‘nearing completion’

A deal between Iran and Oman on reopening commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is close to being finalized, according to the Foreign Ministry in Tehran.

Pakistan’s Authoritarian Trajectory: Human Rights Violations and International Silence

Pakistan’s authoritarian trajectory has deepened through the continued use of colonial-era laws, political repression, restrictions on dissent, and weakening judicial independence.

The Dark Side Of Remittances

Pakistan receives nearly $35 billion in annual remittances, making them a vital source of foreign exchange. However, new research finds that while remittances reduce poverty for recipient households, they also widen regional disparities

Communication with Mojtaba ‘very difficult at moment’: Iran president

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said Wednesday that communication with the country's supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, was very "difficult at the moment".

Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan doctor who wants to lead the left to the US Senate

The left-wing Democratic upstart set to contest a critical US Senate seat in November's mid-term elections is a charismatic 41-year-old who once said he would have been a cab driver in Egypt but for an "accident of history."

Water systems across US hit by suspected cyberattacks – ABC News

Hackers have targeted water and wastewater utilities in at least a dozen US states, ABC News has reported, citing multiple sources.