Category: World

A groundbreaking trial providing a guaranteed basic monthly income to 2,000 jobless people has led to improved wellbeing but failed to boost employment, Finnish authorities announced on Friday. Last December the Nordic nation concluded a two-year experiment in which a randomly selected group of unemployed people were paid an unconditional, tax-free 560 euros ($634) a […]

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince told a senior aide he would go after Jamal Khashoggi “with a bullet” a year before the dissident journalist was killed inside the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate, the New York Times reported on Thursday quoting US intelligence. US lawmakers have threatened to take tougher action against Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi’s killing after this new […]

WASHINGTON: The US military strategy for South Asia includes assuring Pak­istan that its “equities” are acknowledged and addressed in any future agreement in Afghanistan, says a key American general. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this week, Gen Joseph Votel also said that “some military cooperation activities” between the US and Pakistan have […]

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and other administration officials are headed to the Middle East later this month to brief diplomats in at least five countries on the economic section of a United States proposal for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Kushner, who is President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, will be joined by US […]

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Thursday accused the publisher of the National Enquirer of blackmail after it threatened to publish intimate photographs sent by the billionaire to his mistress if he did not cease his investigation into how the newspaper got the pictures. It comes after the tabloid, having accessed private text messages, last month reported Bezos […]

ISLAMABAD: After a bit of wrangling over the venue of talks on Kartarpur Corridor Accord, Pakistan and India on Thursday finally agreed in principle on reciprocal visits of officials for negotiating and finalising the agreement with Pakistani delegation set to travel to Delhi on March 13 for initiating the process. “We welcome the visit of […]

KARACHI: “Like any maritime nation, Pakistan has substantial stakes in the maritime domain. Our extraordinary dependence on the seas for trade, the CPEC project and our strategic location astride the global energy highway are the three most important reasons for Pakistan to ensure a safer and crime-free sea,” said Commander Pakistan Fleet Vice Admiral Amjad […]

The five-day multinational naval exercise Aman-2019, in which 46 nations are taking part, kicked off in Karachi on Friday. As the ceremony began, the flags of all participating nations were hoisted, and contingents of the Pakistan Navy presented a march-past. The principal purpose of the exercise, conducted after every two years since it was initiated […]

Iraq’s most senior Shia cleric on Wednesday joined a chorus of Iraqi politicians and clerics criticising recent statements by President Donald Trump in which he said United States troops should stay in Iraq to keep an eye on neighbouring Iran. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said Iraq aspires to have “good and balanced relations” with all of its […]

The woman suspected of setting fire to a Paris apartment building in which 10 people died had only just been released from a psychiatric ward, sources close to the investigation said on Wednesday. The woman in her 40s, who lived in the building, is understood to have been treated a dozen times in psychiatric facilities. In late […]