WASHINGTON – The United States is finalising plans to send the Patriot missile defence system to Ukraine, a decision that could be announced as soon as this week, three US officials told Reuters on Tuesday (Dec 13). Ukraine has asked its Western partners for air defences, including US-made Patriot systems, […]
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By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON: Pakistan has put one of its diplomatic properties in the US capital — a building on the prestigious R Street NW — for sale, with officials insisting that neither the new nor the old embassies are up for sale. The building housed the embassy’s defence section […]
DOHA – Croatia and Morocco are the surprise guests in the World Cup’s final four but, as the Croatians discovered in 2018 and many other long-shot semi-finalists have before them, the two remaining steps to become world champions can be the steepest. In the 21 editions of the World Cup […]
Indian and Chinese troops engaged in a fresh “face-off” on their disputed Himalayan border last week, leaving several injured on both sides, sources said. Relations have been at rock-bottom between the nuclear-armed Asian giants since a clash that left 20 Indian soldiers and at least four Chinese troops dead on […]
Chief of Pakistan Tehreek- e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan said on Sunday Senator Azam Khan Swati had been “badly tortured”, while proclaimed offenders and money launders, like Suleman Shehbaz was brought back through NRO-2. “If anyone wants to understand why Pakistan”s economy is on the verge of collapsing, only two events […]
MUSK -UNS/AFP: A Japanese startup’s spacecraft was launched to the moon on Sunday in the country’s first-ever lunar mission and the first of its kind by a private company. The launch was carried out by Elon Musk’s SpaceX in Cape Canaveral in the US state of Florida after two postponements […]
ISLAMABAD : The latest political developments show a thaw in relationships between the Chaudhrys of Gujrat and the Sharifs’, signaling chances of a new political alliance in coming days. Moreover, there are reports that contacts between the top political gamblers of Punjab Chaudhry brothers — Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi […]
Tulips and bitcoin have both been associated with financial bubbles in their time, but in a giant greenhouse near Amsterdam the Dutch are trying to make them work together. Engineer Bert de Groot inspects the six bitcoin miners as they perform complex sums to earn cryptocurrency, filling the air with […]
PESHAWAR -UNS: More than four terrorists killed by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and security forces on Saturday — allegedly belonging to the militant Islamic State group — in a mountainous area near the Pak-Afghan border in North Waziristan. According to a CTD press release, the terrorists from […]
