Trump’s high-profile visit to Beijing wasn’t just a diplomatic summit, it became a mirror reflecting America’s deep divide over China. From grand ceremonies to tense negotiations, every moment carried a message far beyond politics.
While some US media outlets saw a diplomatic reset between two superpowers, others viewed it as carefully staged theater hiding deeper tensions over Taiwan, trade, AI, and global influence.
As Air Force One departed Beijing, one question remained: Is the US-China relationship heading toward cooperation, confrontation, or an entirely new world order?
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi held high-level talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on Sunday, focusing on regional security, recent hostilities, and efforts to consolidate a fragile ceasefire, Iran’s WANA news agency reported.
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Authorities in Abu Dhabi responded to a fire caused by a drone strike on an electrical generator outside the inner perimeter of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in the Al Dhafra Region, the Abu Dhabi Media Office said on Sunday.
No injuries were reported, radiological safety levels were unaffected and the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation confirmed the plant’s essential systems are operating normally.
The statement did not say who was to blame for the suspected drone attack. The UAE has faced repeated missile and drone attacks during the Israel-U.S.-Iran conflict, including incidents authorities said originated from Iran and targeted energy and maritime infrastructure.
Former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was confronted by a protester at a public event in Virginia, where she filmed the encounter on her phone and questioned him over the genocide carried out by Israel-US in Gaza. The activist asked, “How does it feel to have the blood of half a million children on your hands?,” Blinken kept walking saying “Please, with the children.” The activist responded by asking whether concern was limited to their own children, adding that she felt sorry for them and that “one day they’ll grow up and read the news.”
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam met the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev during a three-day state visit to participate in the World Urban Forum in Baku. She is set to present Punjab’s flagship sustainable urban affordable housing initiative, “Apni Chhat Apna Ghar,” at the Pakistan Pavilion.
Iran’s foreign ministry has condemned the Israeli assassination of Ezzedine Al-Haddad, head of Hamas’s Qassam Brigades in Gaza, saying Israel is pursuing a “colonial eradication” of Palestine, IRNA reported.
The ministry denounced the “terrorist act” carried out by the “brutal Zionist regime” in killing Haddad, along with his wife and child.
The assassination and similar attacks formed “part of Israel’s criminal scheme for the colonial eradication of Palestine,” the statement said, adding that the US, as “the largest military, financial, and political supporter of the Zionist apartheid regime”, was “complicit in each and every one of these crimes”.
The foreign ministry added that the “cowardly assassination” of Palestinian leaders and intellectuals reflected the “desperation and helplessness” of a regime that, despite committing “the most horrific crimes” and killing “hundreds of thousands of innocent people” over the past eight decades, had not destroyed the spirit of resistance among Palestinians.
The “physical elimination” of resistance commanders and Palestinian elites would not undermine the resistance movement, but would instead inspire “followers and fighters on the path of Palestine’s dignity and freedom,” according to the IRNA.
A high-rise residential building was hit in the town of Krasnogorsk during a large Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region on Sunday, as at least four people were killed in strikes across Russian regions, including Moscow, which faced its largest assault in more than a year.
Three people were killed in the Moscow region and one in Belgorod, authorities said, while Moscow regional Governor Andrei Vorobyov reported that a woman died when a home was struck in Khimki and rescuers were searching debris for another person; he also said two men were killed in the village of Pogorelki in the Mytishchi district, with several residential high-rises and infrastructure facilities damaged.
Air defences destroyed 81 drones headed for Moscow since midnight, according to TASS citing Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, who said 12 people were injured, mostly near the entrance to a Moscow oil refinery, and that three houses were damaged, though the refinery’s “technology” was not hit.
Russia’s defence ministry said a total of 556 drones were downed across the country overnight and into the morning.
The Lebanese death toll from Israeli strikes has risen to 2,969 since March 2, Lebanon’s Public Health Emergency Operations Center said on Saturday, as fresh violence continued despite a fragile ceasefire between the two sides.
Another 9,112 people have been wounded since March 2, according to the center.
Over the weekend, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) struck around 100 Hezbollah targets across southern Lebanon, including observation posts, weapon storage facilities and other infrastructure. The IDF said it also killed two Hezbollah members at a rocket launch site.
Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that Israeli strikes on Saturday hit several areas in southern Lebanon, including Tyre and Nabatieh, causing multiple casualties.
In one of the most far-reaching changes to Pakistan’s higher education admission system in recent years, Higher Education Commission Pakistan has centralised the MPhil and PhD admission process by stripping universities of the authority to conduct their own entry tests - a move likely to reshape graduate admissions across the country.
Under the revised policy, admissions to Level-VII (MS/MPhil or equivalent) and Level-VIII (PhD or equivalent) programmes from Fall 2026 onwards will be based solely on GRE/HAT General and relevant subject tests conducted through the HEC’s Education Testing Council.
The commission has formally issued a notification in this regard, while HEC Chairman Dr Niaz Ahmed has also confirmed the implementation of the new policy. According to the notification, universities will no longer be authorised to hold separate admission tests as alternatives to GRE/HAT examinations for MPhil and PhD admissions.
The HEC stated that the policy revision was aimed at ensuring quality, transparency, uniformity and merit-based admissions in higher education institutions across the country.
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The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Sunday criticised remarks by the Indian Chief of Army Staff (COAS), saying the statement reflected a “jingoistic and myopic mindset” and warned against pushing “South Asia towards wars and crises”.
In a statement, ISPR said the Indian army chief had made a “provocative statement” during a recent interview that “Pakistan should decide if it desired to be part of geography and history”.
The military’s media wing said that, contrary to what it described as a “delusional and hallucinational belief system” and “despite the omnipresent ill wishes that prevail in Hindutva-led India”, Pakistan was already “a country of consequence at the global level, a declared nuclear power and an indelible part of South Asia’s geography and history”.
“The statement reflects that the Indian leadership has neither been able to reconcile with the very idea of Pakistan nor it has learnt the right lessons, even after the passage of eight decades,” the statement said.
ISPR said the “hubristic, jingoistic and myopic mindset” had repeatedly pushed South Asia towards wars and crises.
“Threatening a sovereign nuclear neighbour with elimination from geography is not strategic signalling or brinkmanship; it is sheer bankruptcy of cognitive capacities, madness and warmongering,” the statement said.
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The World Health Organisation on Sunday declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a “public health emergency of international concern”, posing risks to neighbouring countries.
The WHO said the outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo virus, does not meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency but that countries sharing land borders with the DRC are at high risk for further spread.
The UN health agency said in a statement that 80 suspected deaths, eight laboratory-confirmed cases and 246 suspected cases had been reported as of Saturday in the DRC’s Ituri province across at least three health zones, including Bunia, Rwampara and Mongbwalu.
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