Pakistan

The United Nations children’s agency is warning that a year on from Pakistan’s catastrophic floods, millions of children still need humanitarian assistance and access to essential services.

Members of Pakistan’s military were deployed Tuesday to rescue six children and two adults trapped on a broken cable car, which was left dangling hundreds of feet over a steep canyon.

Pakistani authorities say all eight people trapped in a cable car suspended high above a canyon have been rescued.

Police in eastern Pakistan arrested 129 Muslims overnight after a Muslim mob angered over an alleged desecration of the Quran attacked churches and homes of minority Christians, prompting authorities to summon soldiers to restore order.

A Pakistani mountaineer says an investigation has been launched into the death of a Pakistani porter near the peak of the world’s most treacherous mountain.

An explosion at a political rally on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan killed at least 44 people and wounded nearly 200 in a Sunday attack that a senior leader called aimed at weakening the Islamist party.

Officials say a massive landslide triggered by lightning amid rain has struck a key highway near the Torkham border town in northwestern Pakistan, burying several trucks and killing at least two people.

Khan was not in the home, having traveled to Islamabad to appear before a judge to face charges he sold state gifts while in office and hid his assets.

The brothers’ release was the latest U.S. move toward emptying and shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

The general seized power in a 1999 bloodless coup and later led his country into aiding the U.S. in its war in neighboring Afghanistan.

Pakistani officials say the death toll from a suicide bombing at a mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar has risen to 88.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives during crowded prayers at a mosque inside a police compound in Pakistan Monday, killing dozens and wounding at least 150 people.

Officials say a suicide bomber struck a crowded mosque inside a police compound in Pakistan, killing at least 59 people and wounding over 150 more.

The United States has added the key Pakistani militant group and the al-Qaida branch to its list of “global terrorists,” triggering sanctions against the groups amid a resurgence of militant violence in this Islamic nation.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it is committing $1.2 billion to efforts aimed at ending polio worldwide.

A new study says human-caused climate change juiced the rainfall that triggered Pakistan’s floods by up to 50%.

Months of heavy monsoon rains and flooding have killed 1,391 people and affected 3.3 million in this South Asian nation while half a million people have become homeless.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived before dawn Friday on a two-day visit aimed at expressing his solidarity with Pakistan’s government and people over climate-induced floods that have killed 1,391 people since mid-June.

In flood-stricken Pakistan, where an unprecedented monsoon season has killed hundreds of people, the rains now threaten a famed archeological site dating back 4,500 years, the site’s chief official said Tuesday.

More than 1,300 people have been killed and millions have lost their homes in flooding caused by unusually heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan this year that many experts have blamed on climate change.