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KARACHI: The government has initiated negotiations with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a $2 billion loan to upgrade the Pakistan Railways, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Monday, stressing that the Centre would work with all the provinces to extend the railway network to Central Asia. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the new … Read more
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We followed the supply chain for batteries used in millions of U.S. cars to villages in Nigeria where people are being poisoned by lead. Peter S. Goodman, who covers economics and geopolitics for The Times, describes our yearlong investigation. By Peter S. Goodman, Will Fitzgibbon, Melanie Bencosme, Jon Miller, June Kim, Laura Salaberry and Carmen … Read more
While China is selling clean energy to the world, America is pushing oil and gas.
New research says aid cuts by United States, European countries could result in millions of preventable deaths by 2030 WASHINGTON: More than 22 million people, many of them children, could die preventable deaths by 2030 due to aid cuts by the United States and European countries, new research said Monday. The findings are an update … Read more
Bright light boxes mimic natural light. We asked experts if they worked.
MUZAFFARABAD: Faisal Mumtaz Rathore of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) was elected the 16th Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Monday after Chaudhry Anwarul Haq was removed through a no-confidence motion in the state’s Legislative Assembly. The PPP secured victory for its candidate with the support of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). … Read more
The president is offering the crown prince fighter jets, a nuclear agreement and other deals as part of his efforts to collect investment and push forward on Middle East peace.
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Scientists and Indigenous sailors in the Marshall Islands are studying seafaring and the human brain.
