The Growing Cost of Keeping Close Ties with Jeffrey Epstein
[Larry Summers, a former Treasury secretary, is stepping back from public commitments. It’s the latest fallout for an associate of Jeffrey Epstein.
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UN Support Bolsters Trump’s Gaza Plan but Road Ahead Is Still Rough
The Security Council’s backing offered a scaffolding of international legitimacy that will be needed to persuade countries to help see the plans through.
Jeju Air Crash Investigators to Hold Public Hearing as They Face Criticism
With the cause of the disaster in South Korea still unclear after nearly a year, victims’ families have questioned the credibility and impartiality of the inquiry board.
Railway digitisation to drive growth, says PM
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
Outage at Cloudflare Disrupts Parts of the Internet
[Services from Cloudflare, a software company, underpin thousands of websites.
The Real Cost of U.S. Car Batteries
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
The Future of Energy Has Arrived — Just Not in the U.S.
While China is selling clean energy to the world, America is pushing oil and gas.
Western aid cuts could cause 22.6m deaths
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
Can SAD Lamps Help With Seasonal Depression?
Bright light boxes mimic natural light. We asked experts if they worked.
AJK assembly ousts Anwarul Haq, elects PPP’s Faisal Rathore as PM
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