PARIS (Reuters): A re-elected Donald Trump won’t stop renewable energy deployment, but could...
Top Stories
Senate passes a $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine and...
WASHINGTON (AP) : The Senate early Tuesday passed a $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel...
CIA, Mossad chiefs, Qatar PM meet Egyptians on Gaza truce: Egypt...
JERUSALEM (AFP): Israel’s spy chief was headed to Cairo Tuesday for talks with his Egyptian and US...
Global
US urges Iran to dilute all its near-weapons-grade uranium
VIENNA (Reuters): The United States called on Iran on Wednesday to dilute all of the uranium it has...
Ukrainian drone strikes major iron ore plant in Russia’s...
MOSCOW (Reuters): A Ukrainian drone struck a fuel tank at one of Russia’s largest iron ore...
India’s ‘drone sisters’ steer farming and...
New Delhi (AFP): Once a housewife in rural India, Sharmila Yadav always wanted to be a pilot and is...
Top Haitian gang leader warns of civil war, genocide
Israel advances plan to build 3,500 new settlement...
Spanish prosecutor seeks jail for Carlo Ancelotti over...
Iran to unload crude from seized tanker in tit-for-tat...
Sudan soon to be ‘world’s largest hunger crisis’: WFP
China’s foreign minister Wang Yi to hold press...
Business
Chairman FBR and Member-IR (Operations) visited Large Taxpayers...
F.P. Report KARACHI: Chairman FBR Mr. Malik Amjed Zubair Tiwana and Member-IR (Operations) Mir...
Gold rates go up in Pakistan
F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: The per tola rates of 24 karat gold increased by Rs.1,300 and was sold at Rs...
Nike to cut about 2% jobs to lower costs
NEW YORK (Reuters): Nike will cut about 2% of its total workforce, or more than 1,600 jobs, the...
Editorial
UN attornies and Guatemala’s villains
Recently, the United Nations issued a statement expressing concern after the Guatemalan government...
Climate change, poor versus privileged
Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Sherry Rehman told the World Economic Forum (WEF) on...
Urban planning and nation’s plight
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan formally approved the first-ever Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
Pakistan
Hassan, Hussain Nawaz move court against arrest warrants in...
F.P. Report LAHORE: Hassan and Hussain Nawaz, sons of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, on...
PM, COAS discuss security, army’s professional matters
ISLAMABAD (APP): Chief of the Army Staff General Syed Asim Munir on Wednesday called on Prime...
Summary of 15-member provincial cabinet sent to Governor
F.P. Report PESHAWAR : The Administration department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has sent a summary 15...
Anti-Corruption court postpones Parvez Elahi’s...
SC verdict on Bhutto reference will enable democracy...
Shehbaz announces relief package for rain-hit areas
KP CM: Imran to decide about reconciliation with...
Election 2024 results: PHC orders ECP to submit reply
Siraj says JI to hold Palestine solidarity march on...
Afghanistan
Restrictions on entry of Iranian trucks into Afghanistan lifted
KABUL (Ariana News): Afghan and Iranian authorities have agreed to immediately remove the 20-day...
‘Media have freedom if they respect national and Islamic...
KABUL (BNA): In response to a recent report by Reporters Without Borders, Zabihullah Mujahid, the...
BMA provides practical training for students
KABUL (BNA): The Afghanistan International Islamic University’s Faculty of Sharia Studies and Bank...
1 Million internally displaced transferred to home...
Afghanistan among world’s most dangerous countries for...
Taliban say security forces killed dozens of Tajiks...
Youth collect textbooks to distribute to students
A look at diplomacy of Islamic Emirate in 2023
‘Russia won’t remove Taliban from list’
Entertainment
‘This is my world’: Russia’s top Barbie fan...
MOSCOW (Reuters): As the proud owner of 12,000 Barbie dolls, Russian collector Tatiana Tuzova was...
Warner Bros delays ‘Dune,’ ‘Lord of the...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters): The Warner Bros movie studio will delay the planned November release of a...
‘Queen of My Dreams’ all set to premiere at Toronto...
F.P. Report KARACHI: The Queen of My Dreams is all set to be premiered at the prestigious Toronto...
Articles
Narrating Gaza: Pain in Arabic, information in English
Nabil Echchaibi As an Arab, I do not need to write for Palestinians. Palestinians have written to...
Change in Washington, not Israel, the priority for Palestinians
Osama Al-Sharif Israel’s war on Gaza, now almost two months old, has polarized the world and...
The Israeli far right is sinking to new lows
Yossi Mekelberg For any decent human being, regardless of religion, ethnicity, gender or age, the...
Arts & Literature
Famous travelers to Türkiye: Hadrian, emperor with wanderlust
A. Peter Dore Visiting the remains of the classical city of Troy, Roman Emperor Hadrian physically...
Rare pre-Islamic artefacts discovered in southern Saudi Arabia
Web Desk Saudi Arabia’s Heritage Commission has announced the discovery of pre-Islamic artefacts at...
Türkiye’s historical monuments largely remain unaffected...
Web Desk Many invaluable artefacts in Türkiye, such as those in the renowned Zeugma Mosaic Museum...
The End Is At Hand: A dark yet humorous look at the...
Legendary Japanese manga artist Matsumoto dies at age...
Exhibit visitor accidentally breaks $42B Koons...
Franco-Swiss artist Catherine Gfeller to showcase...
St Valentine’s Banksy finds new home at Dreamland
Dhahran exhibition features 32 Saudi artists’ works...
Sports
PSL franchises rope in several players in supplementary...
Monitoring Desk ISLAMABAD: Several players were added to Pakistan Super League (PSL) teams as the...
Liverpool have‘big job’ to replace Klopp, says Van Dijk
London (AFP): Virgil van Dijk admits Liverpool have a “big job” to replace Jurgen Klopp...
Bumrah reprimanded for breaching ICC code of conduct
F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: India fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has been handed an official reprimand for...
Jordan score twice at the death to surge into Asian...
Pakistan’s Hockey5s World Cup journey ends with 7-8...
Russian skater Valieva suspended four years for...
S. Korea coach Klinsmann has no fear, only respect for...
‘Wake-up call’ as India look for quick fix...
Decline and fall of Test cricket? Don’t tell...
Technology
US regulator investigating ChatGPT over bad content
WASHINGTON (AFP): The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI to determine if its...
China publishes interim rules on generative AI
HONG KONG (Reuters): China issued interim measures on Thursday to manage its booming generative...
Beijing’s regulatory crackdown wipes $1.1tr off Chinese...
HONG KONG (Reuters): China’s major tech companies have shed more than $1 trillion in value –...
NASA to unveil new Webb image on telescope’s...
China beats rivals to successfully launch first...
Sapphire Ventures plans to invest over $1 billion in...
US antitrust agency loses bid to suspend...
India shoots for the moon with latest rocket launch
China to lay down AI rules with emphasis on content...
Health
Vision: Cones, rods in the retina may still retain visual...
F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: In the retina, the cells responsible for the visual experience are rods and...
More states are requiring patients to give consent for medical...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP): A new batch of states are looking to legislate the level of informed consent...
Animal health body urges bird flu vaccination to avoid pandemic
PARIS (Reuters): Governments should consider vaccinating birds against bird flu to avoid the virus...
Once-a-week obesity shot ‘holds promise for...
All set to carry out anti-polio drive in Khyber
German surgeon fired after getting hospital cleaner to...
WHO says avoid these non-sugar sweeteners if you want...
Even metabolically healthy people with obesity face...
Senior pediatricians urged to play role in polio...
News in Picture
“Today’s Cartoon”
PESHAWAR: Old age labours working at a vegetable market on eve...
PESHAWAR: Provincial president PPP Women Wing Senator Robina...
Travel
Welsh island of Enlli: Europe’s first ‘Dark Skies...
PWLLHELI (AFP): As night descends upon Ynys Enlli, the sky over the isolated Welsh island...
Lufthansa flight diverted after turbulence, 7 hospitalized
DULLES, Va. (AP) : A Lufthansa flight that experienced “significant turbulence” was diverted to...
Wizz Air to suspend flights to Moldova due to airspace ‘risk’
(CNN): European low-cost carrier Wizz Air is is to suspend flights to Moldova because of concerns...
Kids Corner
Malaria: Killer of African children set for vaccine zap
JOHANESBERG (AFP): Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children living in Africa, succumb every...
Malnutrition growing threat to Afghan children
KABUL (Tolo News): The Ministry of Public Health says that in the last four months, 308...
Puzzling outbreak of liver disease in kids spreads to EU, US
LONDON (AP): Health officials say they have detected more cases of a mysterious liver disease in...
Food
Copala serves a range of authentic and varied mocktails
Maan Jalal Located in Index Mall in DIFC, es authentic Mexican dishes made with fresh ingredients...
Nigel Slater’s recipes for pork chops and juniper salt, and for...
Web Desk No culinary marriage rolls off the tongue quite so comfortably as blackberry ’n’ apple...
Fall for food, food for fall
Monitoring Desk It isn’t quite chillyyet, but mornings in Karachi are overcast, and evenings cool...
Pesticides exacerbate climate change, NGO reports, urges action
LONDON (AFP) : An NGO has called for action from the United Kingdom government as it released a...
For 2nd day running, world hits new record hottest day ever
ANKARA (AA): After hitting a new all-time temperature high on Monday, the globe quickly topped that...
Climate change risk to global crops bigger than thought: Study
PARIS (AFP) : The dangers associated with crop failures in various major food-producing regions...