China has said that the security situation in Pakistan has been “severe” in recent times and condemned the suicide attack at Gwadar.

 At the start of the year, half of Afghanistan's population - more than 18 million people - needed help,

In Afghanistan,people in large number are making a desperate bid to escape the Taliban rule over the week.

G7 Foreign Ministers have called for the international community to unite to prevent it from escalating further.

In Australia, a lockdown in the largest city Sydney has been extended to the end of September. NewZeaknd also extended. 

China's national legislature on Friday formally endorsed the three-child policy mooted by the ruling Communist Party.