Morning brief: Islamabad sealed ahead of PTI rally; COP29 climate deal clinched, and more

Pakistani authorities have closed national highways and motorways nationwide in anticipation of a protest rally organised by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party in Islamabad on Sunday (Nov24).

In other news, nearly 200 countries approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal that raises to at least $300 billion a year the amount wealthy historic polluters pay poorer countries to take action against global warming.

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Pakistani authorities have closed national highways and motorways nationwide in anticipation of a protest rally organised by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party in Islamabad on Sunday (November 24).

After two weeks of exhausting negotiations in Azerbaijan that dragged well into overtime,COP29president Mukhtar Babayev banged the gavel at 2.39 am local time.

US president-elect Donald Trump has named Brooke Rollins, president of the America First Policy Institute, as his choice for agriculture secretary.

A man was shot dead and three police personnel were injured following gunfire early Sunday (Nov 24) near the Israeli embassy in Jordan's capital city of Amman.

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