Pakistan on Wednesday made a test run of its first metro train service in Lahore, the capital of the country's eastern Punjab province, from Dera Gujran to Lakshmi Chowk on a 12-km portion of the total 27.1-km route.


Pakistan tests 1st metro train in Lahore under CPEC


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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that warships armed with Kalibr cruise missiles will be permanently on duty in the Mediterranean due to persistent terrorist threats from Syria.


Russian warships permanently on duty in Mediterranean: Putin


India's Deputy National Security Adviser Rajinder Khanna will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Summit's (SCO) security meet in Beijing next week.


India's deputy NSA to attend SCO's security meet


Even as North Korea keeps the world in suspense over its proposed talks with the US and South Korea, the East Asian nation has given its assurance that it will not allow any action that will create concerns for India's security.


Won't allow anything threatening India's security: North Korea


The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved an agreement signed with Brunei on exchange of information and collection of taxes.


Cabinet approves India-Brunei tax agreement


A US government watchdog has said that the Pentagon has provided the wrong number of Afghan government troops earlier this month, exaggerating its decline.


Pentagon accused of lying on Afghan troop number


Russian President Vladimir Putin has inaugurated a highly-controversial bridge linking the Russian mainland to Crimea, tightening Russias hold over the contested peninsula which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014.


Putin opens bridge linking Russia to Crimea


North Korea abruptly announced a suspension of high-level inter-Korean talks scheduled for Wednesday, citing ongoing US-South Korean military drills and also threatened to pull out of a summit with US President Donald Trump if Washington pushes it to give up nuclear weapons.


N.Korea suspends talks with South, threatens to nix US summit (Third Lead)


North Korea on Wednesday threatened to abandon planned talks between leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump in June if Washington continued to insist on pushing it "into a corner" on nuclear disarmament, media reports said.


North Korea threatens to cancel Trump-Kim talks


North Korea on Wednesday said it may reconsider attending a summit with US President Donald Trump if Washington unilaterally insists upon Pyongyang giving up nuclear weapons, media said.


N.Korea threatens to cancel Trump summit


A senior US diplomat who killed a motorcyclist in a road accident here last month was allowed by the Pakistani authorities to leave the country just days after officials prevented him from boarding a US military plane.


US diplomat involved in fatal accident leaves Pakistan


Kathmandu, May 15 ( IANS) India has provided the largest sum for river training in Nepal in a bid to control floods that also affect India during the monsoon season.


India gives NRs 180mn for river training in Nepal


South Korea on Tuesday denounced Japan for its repeated territorial claims to Dokdo islets, called Takeshima in Japan, lying halfway between the two countries.


S. Korea denounces Japan for territorial claims to disputed isles


North Korea has started to dismantle its nuclear test site, which it had pledged to close down after the inter-Korean summit on April 27, according to media reports on Tuesday.


N.Korea dismantling nuclear test site: Satellite images


North and South Korea have agreed to hold high-level talks on May 16 to discuss ways to enforce the Panmunjom Declaration, Seoul's Unification Ministry said on Tuesday.


Koreas to hold high-level talks on Wednesday


Ghana is looking at India as its "partner" for the industrial development in the African country and is expecting the bilateral-trade between the two countries to cross US $4 billion by this year, an envoy said here on Monday.


Ghana looking at India as its industrial development partner


Nepali Army Chief Rajendra Chhetri will be paying a three-day official visit to Pakistan from Tuesday, officials said.


Nepali Army Chief to visit Pakistan


Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reached Moscow on Monday as part of a series of international diplomatic meetings aimed at saving the Iran nuclear deal following the withdrawal of the US.


Zarif visits Russia, China to save nuclear deal


The Chinese Ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, has said that the trade imbalance between Beijing and Washington cannot and will not last in the long run.


China-US trade imbalance won't last in long run: Ambassador


Yemeni government forces succeeded in retaking control of a district from the Shia Houthi rebels after fierce armed confrontations and airstrikes in the southwestern province of Taiz on Saturday, an Army commander said.


Yemeni forces liberate key district from Houthi rebels


In what can be seen as a series of steps to mend their ties, India and Nepal on Saturday agreed to boost trade and economic links, connectivity via air, land and water, people-to-people ties, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declaring that his country will work like a sherpa in the Himalayan nation's development endeavours.

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