Pakistan

Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin on Tuesday spoke by telephone for the first time in over two-and-a-half years, with the French president urging a ceasefire in Ukraine but the Russian leader hitting back that the West was to blame for the conflict. One week after a ceasefire ended Israel’s 12-day war with Iran, the two […]

ISLAMABAD: The National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) has confirmed another polio case in Pakistan, bringing the total number of cases in the country in 2025 to 14. According to the Polio Reference Laboratory, the latest case was reported from North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where a 19-month-old child was diagnosed with the virus. The breakdown of […]

English punk-rap duo Bob Vylan have defended their chants against the Israeli army during their performance at the Glastonbury festival. To Read Lifestyle Stories in Urdu – Click Here The duo received severe backlash after they raised “death to the IDF” chants at Glastonbury and asked the audience to do the same. Following their performance, […]

In response to the European Union’s (EU) recent sanctions on Russian media, Moscowa has restricted access to the online platforms of 15 European media organisations. “Brussels and other EU capitals have been repeatedly warned that their bans and ungrounded sanctions against the Russian mass media, as well as other formats of politically motivated repressions will […]

The first trailer for The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s upcoming epic based on the Greek classic, has surfaced online after it was exclusively shown in select cinemas across the United States. The trailer for The Odyssey runs just over a minute and features Tom Holland as Telemachus, son of Odysseus, and Jon Bernthal in a mysterious […]

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US president escalates feud with Musk

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The upcoming Street Fighter movie continues to build excitement with its latest casting announcement as David Dastmalchian has officially joined the film to play the iconic villain M Bison, making this one of the most impactful castings in the project so far. The Street Fighter movie, backed by Sony and Legendary, has already confirmed a […]

The Republican-led US Senate approved President Donald Trump’s mammoth domestic policy bill on Tuesday by the narrowest of margins, despite misgivings over delivering deep welfare cuts and another $3 trillion in national debt. Republican leaders had struggled to corral support during a record 24-hour “vote-a-rama” amendment session on the Senate floor, as Democrats offered dozens of challenges to the most divisive aspects of the package. But Senate Majority Leader John Thune was able to turn around wavering moderates to deliver a 50-50 vote, with Vice President JD Vance breaking the tie. The sprawling text now heads to the House of Representatives, where it faces unified Democratic opposition and multiple Republicans baulking at the budget-busting costs, as well as slashed health care and food aid programmes for poor Americans. Trump’s bill proposes a $4.5tr extension of his first-term tax cuts, contentiously offset with $1.2tr in savings mainly targeting the Medicaid health insurance programme, as well as fe...

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Maritime Affairs on Tuesday reduced charges for export and transshipment containers through the Port Qasim Authority by 50 percent, ARY News reported. According to a notification issued here, the revised charges are in effect from July 1, 2025. The decision aims to provide ‘relief’ to the trade sector and stimulate economic […]

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Uphold 2008 consular access deal with July 1 exchange

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