DOHA (Reuters): An Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Rafah would result in...
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Israeli airstrikes kill 20 in Gaza, Palestinian officials say
CAIRO (Reuters): Twenty Palestinians were killed in the early hours of Tuesday in Israeli air...
UN rights office: Israel’s Gaza aid restrictions may amount to...
GENEVA (Agencies): The United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday that Israel’s...
China says US has ‘no right’ to interfere in South...
Health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says war death toll...
Blinken lauds ‘extraordinary’ expansion of...
Biden, Netanyahu hold first call in over a month:...
India’s top court asks SBI for data to link...
UNRWA chief says Israel blocked him from entering Gaza
Global
Former South African leader Zuma survives car crash, party...
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) : South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma survived a car accident overnight...
Secretaries Blinken and Becerra Issue Joint Statement
FP Report WASHINGTON DC: Under President Biden’s leadership, the United States has coordinated...
One Year of Evan Gershkovich’s Wrongful Detention in Russia
FP Report WASHINGTON DC: Today marks one year since Russia wrongfully detained Wall Street Journal...
Business
SBP keeps policy rate unchanged at 22 per cent
F.P. Report KARACHI: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided to keep the policy rate...
SNGPL seeks hike in gas price
F.P. Report LAHORE: After Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC), Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited...
China’s employment situation generally stable in Jan-Feb
F.P. Report BEIJING: The surveyed urban unemployment rate on average in China stood at 5.3 percent...
Editorial
Biden-Xi Summit, confrontation and cooperation
President Biden and his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping met face-to-face in San Francisco...
Laadlas versus Jiyalas
Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari toasted his party workers that the nation...
IMF’s review and policy challenges
Pakistan has reached a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the...
Pakistan
Punjab CM Maryam approves ‘Nawaz Sharif Kisan Card’
F.P. Report LAHORE : Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has approved ‘Nawaz Sharif Kisan...
Aliya Hamza, Sanam Javed arrested in another case
F.P. Report LAHORE : Police have arrested Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders Aliya Hamza and...
Project to connect Orange Line and Green Line is underway:...
F.P. Report Karachi: Sindh Senior Minister and Provincial Minister for Excise, Taxation, Narcotics...
Afghanistan
Trump slams Biden, labels Afghanistan war worse than Vietnam
WASHINGTON (Khaama Press): Former US President Donald Trump recently criticized current President...
Inflated bills despite prolonged outages irk Kabul residents
KABUL (Pajhwok): Some inhabitants of Kabul are complaining about inflated electricity bills despite...
40 Afghan nationals released from Pakistan prisons
KABUL (amu.tv) :The Taliban’s Consulate General in Karachi, Afghanistan, said on Sunday that at...
Taliban publicly flogs man in Sar-e-Pul for...
Balochs in Nimroz celebrate culture, say language...
Afghanistan’s Benafsha Yaqoobi wins US Woman of...
Snowfall kills 15, injured 30 in several provinces
Doha agreement flawed as US, Taliban accuse one...
Damaged in past wars, 200 schools need reconstruction
Entertainment
Netflix pulls Indian culinary drama after religious backlash
MUMBAI (AFP): A popular newly released Indian film was pulled from Netflix on Thursday after a...
Italy regulator tightens rules on influencers after Chiara...
ROME (Reuters): Italy’s communications authority AGCOM has approved stringent new rules to improve...
Senior Pakistani actor Khalid Butt passes away
F.P. Report LAHORE: The senior Pakistani actor Khalid Butt has lost his life. The news of his...
Articles
Useless politicians have doomed Britain to managed decline
Tom Harris It isn’t entirely Rishi Sunak’s fault. But politics is a tough game and, as the...
UNRWA donors should reconsider suspension of funds
Kerry Boyd Anderson At a time of desperate need in Gaza, key donors have suspended funding for the...
Problem in Palestine is not political, it is ideological
Dr. Ramzy Baroud The problem is not the absence of a Palestinian state, but Zionism itself. What is...
Arts & Literature
Japanese artist Kusama Yayoi to showcase work at AlUla festival
ALULA (Agencies) : Japanese artist Kusama Yayoi is all set to exhibit her artwork, titled...
MoMA adds 1st NFT art ‘Unsupervised’ by Refik Anadol...
ISTANBUL (AA) : The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), one of the world’s most prestigious art...
Collection of 55 books on Japan donated to Gandhara University
PESHAWAR (INP): The Embassy of Japan in Pakistan, in collaboration with The Nippon Foundation, has...
Sports
Cricket Scotland apologise after report exposes sexism
Edinburgh (AFP): Cricket Scotland’s chief executive apologised on Monday after an independent...
Sabalenka, Gauff advance at Indian Wells
INDIAN WELLS (United States) (AFP): Reigning Grand Slam champions Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff...
Chelsea beat Newcastle to boost hopes of late charge for Europe
LONDON (Reuters): Chelsea eased the scrutiny on manager Mauricio Pochettino as a 3-2 win over...
Technology
Pakistani hackers hacked Indian govt’s Gazette website, publish...
ISLAMABAD (APP): Pakistani hackers have hacked the website of the Indian Gazette and displayed the...
X fails to block California’s content moderation law
CALIFORNIA (Reuters): Elon Musk’s X on Thursday failed to block a California state law that...
Google agrees to settle $5 bn lawsuit over...
NEW YORK (AFP): Google has agreed to settle a consumer privacy lawsuit seeking at least $5 billion...
Russia, NASA agree to continue joint ISS flights until...
Self-driving cars could be on UK roads by 2026 ...
Baidu’s ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot has more than...
New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft over copyright...
Robot attacks engineer at factory during violent...
eSIM cards help war-torn Gaza stay online
Health
Another man tests positive for Congo in Karachi
F.P. Report KARACHI: Another person has been diagnosed with Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF)...
Japan detects season’s first bird flu case, to cull 40,000...
TOKYO (Reuters): Japan detected the first case of highly pathogenic H5-type bird flu this season at...
Zimbabwe restricts gatherings, food vending as cholera cases...
HARARE (Reuters): Zimbabwe’s government has started restricting public gatherings and food...
News in Picture
LAHORE: Artist giving final touch to painting in Dewane Aam...
ISLAMABAD: Women purchasing dry fruit from vendor at weekly...
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Travel
Germany tightens Polish, Czech border checks as migrant numbers...
BERLIN (AFP): Germany said Wednesday it would step up policing of its borders with Poland and the...
The five best things to do in Turkistan
Nylah Lee Pressed against the borders of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, the southern Kazakh city of...
Israel foreign minister says US will allow visa-free travel for...
WASHINGTON DC : The administration of US President Joe Biden is set to allow Israeli citizens to...
N. Korea reopens borders to foreigners after 3 years:...
UK airport scraps 160 flights over air traffic control...
A guide to uncovering Europe’s Islamic heritage this...
Chinese tourists get VIP welcome in Thailand as visa...
First flight of Azerbaijan Airline lands at Lahore...
Six of the world’s most epic road trips, from...
Kids Corner
Sweden brings more books, handwriting practice back to its tech...
STOCKHOLM (AP): As young children went back to school across Sweden last month, many of their...
Selection of educational institution for students
Dr. Muhammad Sarwar When selecting an educational institution for a 4 or 5-year degree program...
Child labor
Aman Muskan I would like to draw attention towards the issue of child labor. My area is going under...
Food
How the Chocolate Islands are rediscovering their roots
Keith Drew It took me less than half an hour at Claudio Corallo’s chocolate factory in the...
Çorum set to launch Hittite cuisine with 4,500-year-old recipes
ÇORUM, Türkiye (IHA) : Türkiye’s Çorum aims to introduce the ancient Hittite cuisine to local...
Where we are going today: Brunswick cafe in Alkhobar
Dhai Al-Mutairi Located in Alkhobar Alshamaliya, one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, the...
How to make chicken satay – recipe
Nigel Slater’s recipes for roast summer vegetables...
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for potato and tomato frittata
Global warming to step up annual food inflation up to...
Parks, BBQ parties double people’s joy on Eidul Azha
Kerala restaurant Paragon ranks 11th in ‘world’s...
Al Gore says it’s ‘ridiculous’ that UAE hosted climate conference
Lauren Sforza Former Vice President Al Gore on Sunday said it was “ridiculous” that the United Arab...
‘Morally, this is obscene’: GOP divided over stripping...
Rachel Frazin and Zack Budryk The exclusion of a measure to extend compensation for people exposed...
Green turtles struggle to survive in Pakistan’s growing...
KARACHI (AFP) : In the busy city of Karachi, with its heavy traffic and lots of construction, four...