A new draft deal was released at deadlocked UN climate talks on Thursday, offering competing options that show rich and developing nations remain far apart on the money needed to help poorer countries tackle global warming. The two options in the text released at COP29 in Azerbaijan recognise a need of a trillion dollars per year, but both left the exact amount blank, marked with an "X".

A Pakistani court granted bail Wednesday to former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a graft case, his lawyer said. But with a slew of other charges pending against him, the opposition leader is staying in prison. Still, the order by a superior court in the capital, Islamabad, was a boost for Khan in the case in which he is accused, along with his wife, Bushra Bibi, of keeping and selling state gifts in violation of government rules when he was in power.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has gifted North Korea dozens of animals, including a lion and two bears, as a sign of friendship between Moscow and Pyongyang, Russian officials said Wednesday. The two countries have deepened political, military and cultural ties amid Russia`s offensive on Ukraine, with Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un repeatedly professing their personal camaraderie.

A suicide attack in northwest Pakistan killed 12 soldiers, the military said Wednesday, following a separate clash that left eight dead in the same region bordering Afghanistan. The suicide blast occurred on Tuesday and resulted in the deaths of "12 brave sons of soil", the army said in a statement.