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Top US diplomat Blinken meets Saudi Crown Prince in AlUla
RIYADH: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met on Monday with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince...
Biden will not fire Defense Secretary Austin, Trump calls for...
WASHINGTON (Reuters): US President Joe Biden does not plan to fire Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin...
Pakistan rejects US State Department’s...
Russia says 300 evacuated from Belgorod over Ukraine...
Israeli strike kills top Hezbollah commander in Lebanon
Israel hits south Gaza as top US diplomat Blinken...
73 Palestinians killed, 99 injured in Israeli strikes...
China’s top spy agency says it exposes British...
Global
Indian farmers ready for mass protests over crop prices
NEW DELHI (AFP): Indian police erected barricades and banned public gatherings Monday ahead of...
Israelis grapple with ‘broken’ security promise...
JERUSALEM (AFP): Since she moved to Israel, Marie-Lyne Smadja had been confident the state would...
Thai reporter arrested over protest graffiti coverage
BANGKOK (AFP): A Thai journalist was arrested on Monday over a graffiti incident that he reported...
Business
Boeing hits 2023 jet delivery goal in blockbuster sales year
NEW YORK (Reuters): Boeing met its jetliner delivery goals and recorded a 70% boost to annual net...
World Bank forecasts 2024 global growth to slow for third...
WASHINGTON (Reuters): The World Bank warned on Tuesday that global growth in 2024 is set to slow...
False tweet from US regulator briefly sends bitcoin soaring
WASHINGTON (AFP): An unauthorized message posted to the US Securities and Exchange...
Editorial
Raast digital payment system
Yesterday, Prime Minister Imran Khan launched Pakistan’s first instant payment system “Raast” to...
Iran deadline for IAEA inspectors
Few days back, a Member of the Iranian Parliament’s Presiding Board, Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani told...
Electricity breakdown and the government
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz and Minister for Energy...
Pakistan
CM reviews progress on Mazar Bibi Pak Daman road
LAHORE (APP): A new route from the Empress Road will be built to facilitate pilgrims at Mazar Bibi...
Broad-based national govt will serve nation best: PDP
KARACHI (PPI): Regretted that the widening political polarization following the results of the...
PTI in habit of not accepting its defeat: Azma Bukhari
LAHORE (APP): Pakistan Muslim League leader Azma Bukhari said on Sunday that Pakistan Tehreek-e...
Afghanistan
Afghanistan aspires to be South-Central Asia hub: Sharafat
KABUL (TOLOnews): The Head of the Afghanistan Railway Authority (ARA), Bakht Rahman Sharafat, in a...
Sirajuddin Haqqani calls Israeli attack on Gaza a ‘crime’
KABUL (TOLOnews): Acting Minister of Interior Sirajuddin Haqqani condemned Israel’s war on...
Bayat Foundation delivers aid packages to Herat’s quake victims
GULRAN (Agencies): Bayat Foundation on Friday carried on to hand out relief packages to dozens of...
Afghan girls’ education activist released from...
UNSC members condemn ‘exclusion of women, girls in...
Afghan migrants in Pakistan say situation getting worse
Four decades old enmity comes to an end in Kunduz
Over 30,000 tonnes of fruits, vegetables exported in...
Local councils’ capacity building program underway in...
Entertainment
Japanese Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto dead at 71
TOKYO (AFP): Pioneering Japanese composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has died at age 71 after...
Dubai: Woman jailed, fined Dh21,000 for stealing Botox from...
DUBAI (Khaleejtimes): A 34-year-old woman has been sentenced to jail for stealing Botox injections...
Indian actor Saif Ali Khan refuses villain role in ‘NTR 30’
Monitoring Desk HYDERABAD: Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan refused to play an antagonist in Jr NTR’s...
Articles
Europe’s internal ruptures need urgent repair
Dr. Theodore Karasik Europe’s unity is an important question, especially in the face of...
Negotiators get their turn as Nagorno-Karabakh’s demise...
Yasar Yakis President Samvel Shahramanian on Thursday signed a decree to dissolve all state...
Israel has no place in US Visa Waiver Program
Osama Abu Irshaid At 81, my father still recounts stories about our village, Nuris, and his place...
Abbas and Netanyahu left UN with no hopes of peace...
Fault lines are fast re-emerging in Europe’s fragile...
The key to saving youth from violent paths? Inclusive...
Cultural exchange programs open up worlds of artistic...
Learning for a digital world
Cleverly’s humiliating China visit was the perfect...
Arts & Literature
Ancient rock drawings across Saudi Arabia gain increasing...
MAKKAH (Arabnews): Rock drawings in Saudi Arabia — long considered crucial sources for the study of...
Billionaire’s looted art still on display at Israel Museum
JERUSALEM (AP): One of the Israel Museum’s biggest patrons, American billionaire Michael...
Italian museum to return frieze piece from Parthenon to Greece
ROME (DPA): The Antonino Salinas Museum of Archaeology, located in Palermo on the Italian island of...
Sports
Australia’s Khawaja won’t wear shoes with Gaza...
Sydney (AFP):– Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja will not wear shoes with messages highlighting...
Shaheen Afridi appointed vice captain of Pakistan Test team
Monitoring Desk PERTH: Shaheen Shah Afridi has been appointed new vice captain of the Pakistan Test...
ICC rates Bangladesh-NZ Test pitch ‘unsatisfactory’
DHAKA (AFP): Cricket’s world governing body said Tuesday that a review of last week’s...
Australia’s Steve Smith turns to golf after below-par...
Olympiakos owner Marinakis resigns as Greek league...
Muhammad Shabbir won the title of 13th CJCSC Open Golf...
Pakistan beat Afghanistan to reachU-19 Asia Cup semi...
Sri Lanka revokes sacking of cricket board
FIH Hockey Junior World Cup: Spain beat Pakistan to...
Technology
Spotify to slash 6% of workforce, adding to tech layoffs glut
(Agencies): Swedish music streaming giant Spotify said Monday it was planning to cut 6% of its...
Apple seeks to lift India production share to up to 25%
NEW DELHI (Reuters): Apple wants India to account for up to 25% of its production from about 5%-7%...
Spotify to trim 6pc of workforce, content head to depart
NEW YORK (Reuters): Music streaming firm Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N) said on Monday it plans to...
China’s video game makers come in from the cold...
T-Mobile says data of 37 million customers hacked
Microsoft to axe 10,000 jobs as tech gloom deepens
Apple launches faster M2 chips, powerful laptops in...
Elon Musk drama shifts from Twitter, to tweets about...
A year on, Türkiye’s 1st mini satellite collects over...
Health
Lahore is facing acute shortage of Panadol
F.P. Report LAHORE: Lahore is facing acute shortage of Panadol, a medicine that is considered to be...
End of Covid pandemic in sight: WHO
GENEVA (AFP): The number of newly reported Covid-19 cases has dropped dramatically, the World...
Pakistan records 118 coronavirus cases in 24 hours
F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded another 118 coronavirus infections and three related...
Second US monkeypox death as virus linked to brain...
Sindh reports 163 dengue cases, nine deaths
Gambia to suspend paracetamol syrup sales amid child...
Four health-conscious cities putting pedestrians first
Gastro outbreak kills four more children in Khairpur
Syria cholera outbreak at risk of spreading: WHO
News in Picture
PESHAWAR: President Dr. Arif Alvi meeting with acting Governor...
“Today’s Cartoon”
LARKANA: Flood affected people of Kacha Area Indus River near...
Travel
Vienna returns as world’s ‘most liveable city’
VIENNA (AFP): The Austrian capital Vienna has made a comeback as the world’s most liveable...
Collision results in emergency landing at Lahore Airport
F.P. Report LAHORE: A PIA plane, heading from Sharjah to Lahore, had to make emergency landing at...
Passenger jet catches fire while landing at Miami airport
MIAMI (AFP): Investigators were headed to Miami Wednesday after a passenger jet’s landing...
Four tourists of same family die in road accident
UK rail strike strands commuters, pits workers against...
Canadian couple killed in Mexican resort city
Hong Kong floating restaurant sinks in South China Sea
Air passengers to reach 83 percent of 2019 levels this...
Britain set for biggest rail strike in decades
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Food
Endangered pink iguana hatchlings seen for 1st time in Galapagos
QUITO (Reuters) : It was a day to celebrate for Ecuadorean conservationists as scientists...
Small dams to combat desertification, water woes in Pakistan
F.P. Report PESHAWAR: Desertification and drought have recently emerged as one of the major...
Poor air quality exacerbates heart attack’s risk
Monitoring Desk ISLAMABAD: According to a research research, invisible particles enter the...