The incident is among the deadliest hospital fires in recent years in Pakistan, where government health care is subsidized but facilities are under-resourced and overburdened.

The fire broke out in an air conditioning unit at the mother and child unit in one of Islamabad's main hospitals.

At least 14 newborn babies died Wednesday morning in one Pakistan’s deadliest hospital fires in recent decades.

Fourteen infants were killed in a fire at one of the largest hospitals in Pakistan’s capital early Wednesday, prompting Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to order an investigation.

The Canadian Finance Minister and Canadian Minister of Industry spoke on Canada's retaliatory tariffs on the US.

Canada is retaliating against the Trump administration with counter-tariffs targeting more than 700 products, putting its hardest squeeze on American steel and aluminum. The dollar-for-dollar measures announced Tuesday hit back at the new 50 percent tariffs the United States imposed on roughly $20 billion in Canadian imports after negotiations collapsed last week between the two countries,

Canada is preparing retaliatory tariffs against the United States as relations sharply deteriorate, with President Donald Trump telling Canadian leaders to “fall in line” and musing about renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America.

Canada hit back on Tuesday (August 25) with retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion worth of U.S. annual imports and rolled out aid for businesses and workers, matching Washington's latest duties dollar-for-dollar.

Oil fell Wednesday, as investors continue to assess the U.S. pivot toward economic sanctions rather than military strikes to add pressure on Iran.

Oil prices fell in early trading, with Brent crude below $90 a barrel, despite U.S. plans to tighten economic pressure on Iran.

What matters more for oil prices is how hard U.S. sanctions hit China, Iran’s biggest oil buyer, and whether Beijing pushes back.

Long queues formed at petrol stations in Tehran on Tuesday after the United States announced fresh sanctions aimed at pressuring Iran into submission.The government has attributed the violence to

CIA Director John Ratcliffe travelled to Russia because US intelligence had gathered information indicating that Moscow was making early preparations for a possible military mobilisation.

The CIA director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced flight to Moscow for talks, according to a source. This is Ratcliffe's first trip to Moscow since he began his tenure as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency.

It is Ratcliffe’s first publicly known trip to the Russian capital, but the CIA declined to say why he is there.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the Washington Post that Ratcliffe's visit involved "contacts between security services."

U.S. Southern Command forces killed four people Tuesday in its latest strike targeting an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean.

The U.S. military has attacked another boat suspected of being used to smuggle drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing four people

The Aug. 23 strike on a suspected drug boat was the first such attack in more than two month, according to independent conflict monitor ACLED.

The US military has killed at least 227 people in strikes that have destroyed 69 vessels as part of a campaign that Washington says is aimed at curtailing the flow of drugs into the United States, according to official announcements and CNN’s analysis of search and rescue efforts.

Ukraine has targeted Russia's second-largest online retailer Ozon with drone strikes on four of its logistics facilities, injuring several people.

But now Ukraine is stepping up the fight, targeting Russia’s second biggest e-commerce retailer, Ozon, with overnight strikes hitting sites in the south of the country. Ozon is a competitor to Wildberries and,

Russia, meanwhile, has blasted Ukraine with ballistic and cruise missiles, powerful glide bombs and jet-powered drones, killing thousands of civilians. Ukraine has been firing hun

Ozon has had at least six logistics sites hit since Saturday, with employees evacuated across southern Russia. Its shares dropped so sharply that the Moscow Exchange intervened, and the campaign against Wildberries has now run past two dozen warehouses.