Pakistan World News API

Get the live top world headlines from Pakistan with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Stories are selected by Google News rankings and returned as clean JSON.

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This request returns the current top world headlines from Pakistan. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=world&country=pk&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=world" \
  --data-urlencode "country=pk" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "world", "country": "pk", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "world",
    country: "pk",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$query = http_build_query([
    "category" => "world",
    "country"  => "pk",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $query);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=world&country=pk&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 225674,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "441cb9368ead0f578f8427e86ecf1c17",
            "title": "King Charles and Queen Camilla to officially open Senedd as poet dropped from ceremony",
            "description": "The ceremonial opening of the Welsh Parliament is King Charles III's first since becoming head of state.",
            "content": "King Charles III and Queen Camilla will officially open the Senedd's seventh term on Thursday during a visit to Wales.\nIt will be the first time the monarch will have visited the Welsh Parliament since 2024, and the first official meeting with Rhun a... [3798 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv0ld0lgw4x8o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/29c1/live/7e7092d0-c7de-11f1-b712-6f93dfe07e87.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:27:52Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e3b6ea8a4722d95c193474c8378f7d84",
            "title": "North Korea says it tested submarine-launched cruise missiles, KCNA says",
            "description": "North Korea said it had tested two types of ‌submarine-launched strategic cruise missiles on Wednesday to verify navy mission capabilities and reliability of war deterrents, state media reported on Thursday.",
            "content": "SEOUL, Oct 15 (Reuters) - North Korea said it had tested two types of ‌submarine-launched strategic cruise missiles on Wednesday to verify navy mission capabilities and reliability of war deterrents, state media reported on Thursday.\nSenior milita... [792 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-says-it-tested-submarine-launched-cruise-missiles-kcna-says-2026-10-14/",
            "image": "https://www.reuters.com/resizer/v2/466BJJQ7PVGY5O53NZ3KL65MHM.png?auth=b9c3bf166c40a6778eb5672993fde7c30a15f48329026674eff92afd8da1d0ca&height=1005&width=1920&quality=80&smart=true",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:40:48Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "880922db02816158732477822da6d07f",
                "name": "Reuters",
                "url": "https://www.reuters.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "401a2574c3b14222131716ef7a85862e",
            "title": "The Autonomous Weapons Debate (Still) Has a Definition Problem",
            "description": "The debate over autonomous weapons and the debate over frontier AI safety are about different problems. To regulate autonomous weapons effectively and move forward after a decade of discussion, lawmakers and the public need to understand not whether a weapon is autonomous but how autonomous it is, and policymakers need a framework to address it.",
            "content": "Almost every week, as interest in artificial intelligence (AI) grows, there’s another report about “killer robots,” “fully autonomous weapons,” “autonomous weapon systems (AWS),” “lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS),” or, simply, “autonomous weap... [14418 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cfr.org/articles/the-autonomous-weapons-debate-still-has-a-definition-problem",
            "image": "https://assets.cfr.org/images/t_og_image_landscape/v1792007465/AutonomousWeapons/AutonomousWeapons.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:01:53Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4806c15541b01bd1e67e3f8f13a1e41a",
                "name": "Council on Foreign Relations",
                "url": "https://www.cfr.org"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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