DUBAI (AFP) : Yemen’s Houthi militia have ordered all US and British staff of the United Nations...
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Netanyahu under pressure over Israel troop losses, hostages
JERUSALEM (AFP): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a mounting crisis after Israel’s worst day...
Russia at UN denies deporting Ukrainian children
GENEVA (AFP) : Russia insisted at the United Nations on Tuesday that it had not forcibly moved any...
Turkish parliament debates Sweden’s NATO bid
UN says Taliban enforcing restrictions on single and...
Hezbollah says targeted command center in northern...
Drones are hit and miss for Ukrainian soldiers
Russia’s Lavrov talks Middle East with Iran...
Israeli military says 24 soldiers killed in Gaza...
Global
Ukraine outnumbered, outgunned, ground down by Russia
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (Reuters): As the Ukraine war enters its third year, the infantry of 59th...
Julian Assange wanted for ‘indiscriminately’ publishing sources’...
LONDON: Julian Assange is being prosecuted for publishing sources’ names and not his political...
Italy arrests 12 people over speed boat migrant trips from...
ROME (Reuters): Italian police said on Wednesday they had arrested 12 suspected human traffickers...
Business
French farmers win govt concessions after moving to besiege Paris
PARIS (AFP): France’s top farmers’ union won a number of concessions from the...
EU hails ‘change’ as Apple opens App Store to...
BRUSSELS (AFP): The European Union’s digital enforcer celebrated on Friday the...
Gold rates up by Rs.400 to Rs.214,200 per tola
F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: The per tola price of 24 karat gold increased by Rs.400 and was sold at Rs...
Agricultural machinery imports grew by 70.42% in 6...
Pakistan Refinery Limited unveils vision for a...
FFC announces final results for the Year 2023
Body setup on recommendation of SCCI to resolve...
China doubles down on moves to mend its economy and...
Tesla recalling nearly 200,000 vehicles because...
Editorial
Pakistan Singapore economic ties
Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari met his Singaporean counterpart, Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan...
Another upheaval in making
According to the media, Asian markets witnessed a sharp decline during the first two days of the...
Police Martyrs Day and the nation
The people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, kith and kins of the Police Force gathered on 4th August to...
Pakistan
Prices of life-saving drugs hiked
F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: In a major blow to the inflation-hit people of the country, the caretaker...
Provision of stipends to House Officers: PHC orders hospitals...
Humayun Khan PESHAWAR: A divisional bench of Peshawar High Court (PHC) comprising of Justice Ijaz...
Freedom Network declares ban on ‘X’ unannounced censorship
F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: Freedom Network called undeclared ban on ‘X’ social networking platform...
Afghanistan
Afghan embassy in India shuts down citing lack of support...
NEW DELHI (Reuters): Afghanistan’s embassy in New Delhi has closed as diplomats appointed by the...
Qashqari oil field extracting 400 metric tons per day: Ministry
KABUL (Ariana News): The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) says Qashqari oil wells in Sar-e...
‘Girls, boys education necessary for development of Afghanistan’
KABUL (Ariana News): Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan, has once again emphasized...
Union of oil, gas companies organized meeting
Booksellers concerned about lack of book markets
Herat earthquake victims seek protection against winter
World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week marked
Afghan families struggle: women face work ban, social...
Refugees’ expulsion serious HR violation
Entertainment
Sajal Aly and Humayun Saeed to share screen in upcoming ‘Main...
F.P. Report KARACHI: Humayun Saeed, the heartthrob actor of Pakistani showbiz industry will appear...
Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra singing ‘Tu...
Monitoring Desk LAHORE: Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra shared a video singing the Pakistani...
Saudi Arabia’s growing cinema soft power
CANNES (AFP): Accompanying Naomi Campbell on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival last...
Articles
Greek resistance during WWII remains a model for confronting evil
Christopher Cosmos There is a famous quote often attributed to former British Prime Minister...
Armenia, surrounded by enemies, must be brought out of Russia’s...
Arshak Makichyan We always underestimate the power of propaganda and dictators. No one believed...
The standard of our universities and international scenario
Sayed Sajid Shah Bokhari There are around 244 universities in Pakistan. The higher education...
Western media failures say more about the West than...
Why is Elise Stefanik congratulating a new speaker?
Why Palestine was removed from the agenda and why it...
Russian morale has broken against the steel hearts of...
Israel’s Gaza war rooted in dehumanizing, genocidal...
WHO regional election sparks nepotism concerns in...
Arts & Literature
Ancient skeleton reveals amputation surgery 31,000 years ago
TOKYO (AFP): A skeleton discovered in a remote corner of Borneo rewrites the history of ancient...
AI-generated art takes off – who really owns it?
EDINBURGH (Reuters): At first glance, the series of warped clown faces in a collision of primary...
Israel unveils ‘extremely rare’ Iron Age papyrus note
JERUSALEM (AFP): Israel’s Antiquities Authority displayed Wednesday a rare papyrus note in...
New York returns $19 mn of stolen art to Italy
In flood-stricken Pakistan, rains damage archeological...
Lahore gets first ever fish library with more than...
Seth Globepainter’s Imaginative Murals Center...
The secret influence behind luxury jeweller Cartier:...
Acclaimed Syrian artist Elias Zayat dies aged 87
Sports
Khyber Tigers wins Season-3 of Kaliwal Zalmi Cricket League
F.P. Report PESHAWAR: Khyber Tigers clinched the Season-3 of Kaliwal Zalmi Cricket League with a...
Junaid Khan named as Pakistan U19 team’s bowling coach
LAHORE (Monitroing Desk): The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Sunday appointed the former left-arm...
Murray reveals 2024 could be his last on Tour
BRISBANE (AFP): Two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray said 2024 could be his final year before...
Nasser Hussain’s prediction about Babar Azam, Kohli in...
Mohamed Salah leads Egypt as African Cup of Nations...
Polarising Warner draws curtain on 12-year Test career...
Nadal leaves door open to playing beyond 2024
Pat Cummins reacts to Hafeez’s ‘better than the other...
Murray longs to play against Nadal and Djokovic again
Technology
Italy probes Meta over music copyright negotiations
ROME (AFP): Italy’s competition watchdog said Wednesday it had opened an investigation...
German antitrust regulator opens door for curbs on Apple
BERLIN (Reuters) : Germany’s antitrust regulator has opened the door for measures to curb...
Take your eyes off your mobile phone, says inventor, 50 years on
NEW YORK (AFP): The problem with mobile phones is that people look at them too much. At least...
ChatGPT makes up fake data about cancer, doctors warn
Dogecoin jumps as Musk’s Twitter flips logo to...
Australia bans TikTok on government devices
First woman, Black astronaut to make 2024 flight...
One New Zealand to use SpaceX satellites to improve...
2 charged with cutting wires; 40,000 lose internet
Health
China suspends social media accounts of COVID policy critics
BEIJING (AP): China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of...
US approves new drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease
WASHINGTON (AFP): The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a highly anticipated new...
Is China sharing enough Covid-19 information?
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP): As Covid-19 rips through China, other countries and the World Health...
Aid workers in Syria fear cholera spread if cross...
‘Rate of scientific breakthroughs slowing over...
China urges ‘final victory’ over Covid as...
Reasons behind obesity despite exercise and diet...
Study reveals huge extent of fungal disease in India
China state media plays down severity of COVID wave...
News in Picture
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif chairs a...
“Today’s Cartoon”
RAWALPINDI: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif meets the...
Travel
Citizenship for the rich: Demand rises for ‘golden...
BRUSSELS (AFP): The EU is set to take Malta to court over its scheme allowing wealthy foreigners to...
Air France, Airbus trial opens over 2009 Rio-Paris crash
PARIS (AFP): A French trial of Air France and Airbus began Monday on charges of involuntary...
Japan to reopen visa-free travel as Covid recedes
TOKYO (Agencies): As Japan throws open its doors to visitors this week after more than two years of...
Hong Kong offers 500,000 free air tickets to tempt...
Vietnam boasts one of world’s best spas
UK denies to lift ban on PIA flights
Singapore Tourism Board inks three new partnerships to...
Turkish Airlines carried 7.3 million passengers during...
PIA decides to resume its flight operations to Turkey
Kids Corner
Food
‘Lahore is most polluted city in the world’
LAHORE (Reuters): Lahore jumped more than 10 places to become the city with the worst air in the...
Plastics can produce ‘petrochemical products’
Monitoring Desk LONDON: As researchers around the world are finding ways to turn transform plastics...
Northeast winter storm shuts schools, knocks out power
Pennsylvania (AP): The start of a winter storm with heavy, wet snow led to hundreds of school...