The Pentagon is working on a new plan to rise above competition from China and Russia: balloons, a report said. ....

US police are looking for a 22-year-old man who opened fire on a July 4 parade in Highland Park, Chicago killing 6 people and wounding a dozen on Monday. ....

There has been a significant increase in the number of extrajudicial killings in Balochistan, stated the monthly newsletter of the Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) today. ....

According to the Dawn newspaper, a Hindu doctor in the Sindh province Tharparkar district was reportedly tortured by a faction of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party during a local bodies election in Islamkot on June 26. ....

Around a hundred essential items, ranging from flour to fuel and from housing to health care, have collectively become 21.3 per cent expensive for Pakistanis in one year, according to CPI data compiled and released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. ....

Just 25 years after the handover, Hong Kong is no longer the world's freest economy and has plummeted in global press freedom rankings following a citywide crackdown on dissent under the national security law, RFA reported. ....

China’s efforts to turn its far-western Xinjiang into a manufacturing powerhouse could force more Uyghurs to work against their will and make it harder to track whether the country’s exports are made with forced labour, according to a new report from a Washington, DC-based research group, the media reported. ....

Ukraine and Russia carried out their largest prisoner exchange since the beginning of the ongoing war on February 24, the Main Intelligence Directorate of Kiev's Defence Ministry said in a statement. ....

The Pakis�tan Telecommunication Au��thority (PTA) took up the blocking of official accounts of Pakistani missions by India with Twitter management and demanded their restoration. ....

US Vice President Kamala Harris has virtually walked into the circle of fire with her tweet on abortion rights, saying "this is not over" and the Joe Biden administration will do everything in its power to defend medication abortion even as pro-abortion rights activists' protests over the apex court's ruling spread like a prairie fire across the nation. ....