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WASHINGTON, 5 September, 2026 (Kamran Raja): The US State Department has approved a series of potential arms sales worth approximately $6.1 billion to Saudi Arabia, Oman and Iraq, including precision-guidance kits, tank engines, fighter jet support and helicopters. The largest proposed deal would see Saudi Arabia acquire more than 10,000 extended-range Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits and related equipment in a package valued at around $5 billion. The deal also includes a similar number of unguided bombs, divided roughly equally between 500-pound and 2,000-pound munitions. The JDAM kits, supplied by Boeing, can convert conventional bombs into precision-guided weapons. The proposed sale comes as Saudi Arabia seeks to replenish its stocks of precision-guided munitions following heavy...

 NEPAL, 05 September, 2026 (Nosheen): Rescue teams in Nepal pulled a Chinese national alive from a tunnel buried under debris on Saturday, 10 days after catastrophic flooding swept through the region and left thousands missing. A joint rescue team comprising Nepal Army personnel and foreign experts rescued the man from around 225 metres inside a tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project in Rasuwa district, according to a military statement. The survivor, identified as Luhaitao, was found alive with his body covered in thick mud. Rescue officials said his health was being assessed while search and rescue operations continued at the site.He was among hundreds of hydropower workers who went missing after a tsunami-like wall of water and mud swept across the China-Nepal border...

 MOSCOW, 5 September, 2026 (Ghufran): US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow on Saturday to discuss a proposed plan aimed at ending more than four years of war between Russia and Ukraine. The two envoys, sent by US President Donald Trump, are expected to hold talks in Moscow before travelling to Kyiv as part of Washington’s latest diplomatic effort to break the deadlock in peace negotiations over Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of attempting to disrupt the visit by carrying out overnight strikes on Kyiv’s two airports and a civilian target in the Dnipro region. According to Ukrainian officials, the attack on the civilian target killed five people. Zelensky said the strikes appeared to be lin...

  SANAA, 5 September, 2026(Kamran Raja): Fresh fighting between Yemen’s Saudi-backed government forces and Houthi rebels has killed more than 60 people, including civilians, according to Yemeni military and medical sources. Three Yemeni military sources said that 26 government troops were killed during several hours of clashes in southwestern Yemen. Houthi medical and military sources reported that 31 rebel fighters were also killed. A medical source in the government-held city of Taiz said a missile strike killed six civilians travelling on a bus and wounded seven others. A government official blamed the attack on the Houthis.The latest fighting erupted over control of strategic areas providing access to the Red Sea and came after some of the deadliest clashes in years on Friday. Th...