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Both teams routinely meet for drinks at the end of Ashes REUTERS December 31, 2025 1 min read Australia’s Travis Head in action. Photo: REUTERS MELBOURNE: Opening batsman Travis Head hopes Australia and England will share a drink after the Ashes winds up in Sydney to revive a tradition that fell by the wayside after … Read more
Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan in action. Photo: REUTERS KABUL: All-rounder Rashid Khan will lead a strong Afghanistan side in the Twenty20 World Cup after seamer Fazalhaq Farooqi and off-spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman returned for the marquee tournament set for February-March.All-rounder Gulbadin Naib and seamer Naveen-ul-Haq also found places in the 15-member squad for the 20-team tournament … Read more
Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, making his New Year’s Eve address, said the change would force Europe to do more to defend itself.
Rafael Quero Silva faces a lawsuit brought by five people who say he oversaw their abuse and mistreatment as a military officer in Venezuela. But he could be deported before the case is heard.
Trading at the Pakistan Stock Exchange remained choppy on Wednesday as early optimism faded in the face of mounting profit-taking. This volatile performance came after a sustained rally over recent sessions, prompting investors to adopt a cautious stance. The benchmark KSE-100 index kicked off the session on a bullish footing, racing to an intra-day peak … Read more
On weekday afternoons in Karachi, cinema halls once filled with rickshaw drivers, labourers, students skipping lectures, and families looking for relief from the heat. The seats were worn, the projectors unreliable, but the promise was simple: for a few hours, everyone could sit in the dark and disappear into a story. That version of cinema … Read more
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyan Jaishankar met with Pakistan’s National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq at the residence of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia today, December 31 2025. Source: National Assembly Secretariat ISLAMABAD: Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyan Jaishankar briefly met Pakistan’s National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq in Dhaka on Wednesday on the sidelines of the … Read more
new video loaded: How We Tracked Abuses in the Russian Army President Vladimir Putin has claimed that the Russian society can tolerate the high human cost of the war in Ukraine. But we’ve analyzed more than 6,000 official complaints by soldiers and their loved ones that paint a very different picture. Our international correspondent Paul … Read more
[ New York Times editors across the newsroom share their biggest questions as we leave 2025 behind and look ahead to 2026. By Richard W. Stevenson, Mohammed Hadi, Nestor Ramos, Nikita Stewart, Michael Mason, Gilad Thaler, David Seekamp, Lauren Pruitt, Luke Piotrowski and Edward Vega December 31, 2025
Russian journalists learned that a government office inadvertently made thousands of sensitive complaints viewable online, including accounts of abuse and coercion in the military.