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PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly’s Standing Committee on Health met under the chairmanship of MPA Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani to review key health sector issues. The meeting was attended by Special Assistant to the Chief Minister on Prisons Humayun Khan, along with MPAs Ubaidur Rehman, Ijaz Khan, Taj Muhammad Tarand, Shehla Bano, Sobia Shahid, Abdul Salam, Sher … Read more
Britain, France and Germany on Thursday launched a 30-day process to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme, a step likely to stoke tensions two months after Israel and the United States bombed Iran. A senior Iranian official quickly accused the three European powers of harming diplomacy and vowed that Tehran would … Read more
As the director Karim Aïnouz reveals the secrets within the roadside establishment’s walls, a dangerous love triangle appears.
The capsule was opened early because of a construction project. It revealed a Kylie Minogue CD, a pocket television and other ephemera from its time.
While plastics are now an integral part of everyday life, the pollution caused by them has become a major health and environmental hazard. In 2022, the UN Environment Assembly finally decided to negotiate a global treaty to contend with plastic pollution. As many as 184 countries gathered in Geneva a few weeks ago for another … Read more
Scientists published a study this month on the nurse shark, which was caught and photographed by sport fishermen last year.
A season of record wildfires and a wave of extreme heat is forcing Europe to confront difficult questions about how to adapt.
[ ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has suspended the licences of five Long Distance and International (LDI) telecom operators for failing to pay government dues amounting to billions of rupees. LDI operators collectively owe Rs80 billion to the government. This includes Rs24 billion in principal and Rs56 billion in late payment surcharges, which have … Read more
Iran’s ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi, departing Sydney Airport on Thursday before an expulsion deadline, rejected as “lies” Australia’s accusation that Tehran directed antisemitic arson attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. Australia gave Sadeghi 72 hours on Tuesday to leave the country, marking its first expulsion of an ambassador since World War Two. Three other Iranian embassy officials … Read more
SLOUGH, ENGLAND: No matter how studiously you have combed newborn forums and devoured door-stopper parenting books, every new mother, shortly after having been handed her baby, faces this unnerving thought: “Why did nobody warn me about this?” As new celeb mothers Mariyam Nafees and Saboor Ali are bound to discover, the ‘this’ in question is … Read more
