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Former White House hopeful Sanders seeks reelection at 82

WASHINGTON: Former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, the longest-serving independent senator in American...

Published 07 May, 2024 06:05am

Pakistan

Finally, Blome reaches out to beleaguered PTI

ISLAMABAD: In an extraordinary overture after over two years of mutual hostility, the US Ambassador to Pakistan...

Published 07 May, 2024 06:05am

Markets

Gasoline demand growth to slow this year on EV growth in China, US

NEW DELHI: Global petrol demand growth could halve in 2024, squeezing second-half refinery margins, analysts said,...

Published 06 May, 2024 11:51am

Opinion

Palestine and pseudo-democracy in a free Orwellian world

“I am in blood,” Macbeth says, “stepped in so far that should I wade no more,/returning were as tedious as go...

Updated 06 May, 2024 06:59am

World

Dozens arrested in weekend of protests on US campuses

NEW YORK: Police on Saturday arrested at least 25 pro-Palestinian protesters and cleared an encampment at the...

Published 06 May, 2024 05:30am

World

US universities ‘contaminated by hatred, anti-Semitism’: Israel

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel’s president on Thursday slammed US universities for campus unrest over Israel’s war ...

Published 03 May, 2024 06:29am

Pakistan

FO responds to speculation: Govt has no plan to offer air bases to foreign govt

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Thursday rubbished “speculations” of Pakistan giving “two airbases” to the United...

Updated 03 May, 2024 09:19am

World

Israeli private eye arrested in UK over alleged hacking for US PR firm

LONDON: An Israeli private investigator wanted by the United States was arrested in London over allegations that he...

Published 02 May, 2024 11:09pm

World

China says to take ‘necessary measures’ after fresh US sanctions

BEIJING: Beijing on Thursday said it would take “necessary measures” after the United States announced fresh...

Published 02 May, 2024 06:33pm

World

300 anti-Israel protesters held in New York

LOSANGELES/NEW YORK: Supporters of Israel attacked a pro-Palestinian protest camp at the University of California in...

Updated 02 May, 2024 05:19am

Pakistan

Both nations: US official says committed to prosperous future

ISLAMABAD: United States Acting Under Secretary for Political Affairs John Bass has underscored US commitment to a...

Updated 02 May, 2024 09:28am

Print

High-level US delegation discusses various issues

ISLAMABAD: A US State Department delegation led by Acting Under Secretary for Political Affairs John Bass visited...

Updated 01 May, 2024 09:14am

Print

Activists occupy Columbia building as protests flare

NEW YORK: Columbia University on Monday began suspending pro-Palestinian student activists who refused to dismantle...

Updated 01 May, 2024 09:36am

World

Rare spate of tornadoes leave at least two dead in central US

WASHINGTON: An exceptional number of powerful tornadoes have ravaged parts of Oklahoma and nearby Great Plains...

Published 28 Apr, 2024 10:39pm

World

North Korea accuses US of politicizing human rights issues

SEOUL: North Korea accused the United States on Saturday of politicizing human rights in the East Asian country,...

Published 27 Apr, 2024 10:38am

Print

IP pipeline project: Pakistan will explain to US importance of ties with neighbours: FO

ISLAMABAD: Amid threats of unilateral sanctions in case Pakistan goes ahead with the Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline...

Updated 27 Apr, 2024 08:58am

World

Xi tells Blinken US, China should be ‘partners, not rivals’

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday told top US diplomat Antony Blinken that the world’s biggest...

Updated 26 Apr, 2024 04:59pm

World

Pro-Palestinian wave: US campus protests grow as police crack down

LOS ANGELES: College campuses across the United States braced for fresh protests by pro-Palestinian students...

Published 26 Apr, 2024 04:15am

World

US issues further sanctions on Iran, targets drones

WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday issued further sanctions on Iran, targeting the sale of Iranian drones and...

Published 26 Apr, 2024 04:15am

Print

Govt has given two airbases to US, claims Omar

ISLAMABAD: In a startling revelation, the opposition leader in the National Assembly Omar Ayub Khan on Thursday said...

Updated 26 Apr, 2024 08:57am

Print

Meeting held with US under TIFA

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States on Thursday held an inter-sessional meeting under the Trade and Investment...

Updated 26 Apr, 2024 09:23am

Pakistan

Balochistan Police Training College inaugurated: US wants to strengthen community policing: Blome

ISLAMABAD: The United States Ambassador to Pakistan, Donald Blome, on Tuesday, said that his country is proud of its...

Published 24 Apr, 2024 03:50am

Pakistan

Pakistan warned of risks in trade deals with Iran by US?

ISLAMABAD: The United States (US) has cautioned Pakistan about potential risks associated with its trade agreements...

Published 24 Apr, 2024 03:50am

Opinion

US’s China containment policy

While it comes to China-US rivalry, two opposite themes emerge. China says that this world is big enough for all of...

Published 24 Apr, 2024 03:50am

World

China, US relations stable despite US ‘interference’, Chinese official says

BEIJING: Relations between Beijing and Washington are stabilising despite US actions that harm Chinese interests, a...

Published 23 Apr, 2024 03:22pm

Opinion

Israel-Hamas conflict - what’s the endgame?

Two main objectives of the invasion of Gaza by the Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF) on 23 October, 2023 were to...

Published 22 Apr, 2024 04:39am

Print

Alleged supplies to missile programme: US imposes ban on four entities

ISLAMABAD: The United States has imposed sanctions on four entities — three Chinese and one Belarusian —...

Updated 21 Apr, 2024 09:18am

Opinion

‘Innovative diplomacy with the US, KSA and Iran’

This is apropos a letter to the Editor by this writer carried by the newspaper yesterday. Assuming this theory holds...

Published 21 Apr, 2024 04:10am

Print

Pakistan rejects US’ ‘politically motivated’ move

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday took strong exception to the “politically motivated” US decision to impose sanctions...

Updated 21 Apr, 2024 04:19pm

Business & Finance

Gopinath says high US demand fueling growth, higher interest rates

WASHINGTON: The United States needs to raise revenues to bring down high budget deficits even though they are ...

Published 21 Apr, 2024 04:10am