International

BEIJING, May 21 : Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Secretary-General Zhang Ming held consultations with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov in Moscow. They exchanged opinions on the key aspects of the SCO’s activity in the rapidly changing geopolitical situation. They noted the relevance of the constructive and stabilising role of …

ISLAMABAD, May 21 : Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Saturday that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had issued directives to the Ministry of Law and Justice and the Ministry of Human Rights to raise at the concerned forums at international level the issue of the conviction of …

In this video, the two men, contenders for the coveted chair, look like Pakistani politicians playing musical chairs. Musical chairs is a child’s game in which players march to music around a group of chairs that contains one chair less than the number of players. When the music abruptly stops …

The branch of the Italian Farmers’ Association’ Coldiretti’ located in the southern region of Puglia, Italy, has announced that they are facing a shortage of manpower. Through a statement issued on May 19, Association Coldiretti also stressed that Italian agriculture needs at least 100,000 seasonal workers to guarantee summer harvest …

The customer called police after being charged €2 (£1.70) for his coffee – a decaffeinated one, at that – at Ditta Artigianale in the centre of the Tuscan city. The man complained that the price was not displayed on a menu behind the counter. It was this error that landed …

During the talks with International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Doha, Pakistan on Friday presented their plan to reduce the subsidy on petrol prices. As per sources privy to the matter, during the talks with IMF, Pakistan have presented their plan to increase the prices of petrol while suggestions were also …

Antonio Guterres, the United Nations Secretary-General has rightly called for a global coalition to speed up the deployment of battery technology, and counseled countries to ease intellectual property restrictions to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Guterres’ call comes in light of a report released by …

The war in Ukraine and drought fueled by climate change have sent global prices for grains, cooking oils, fuel, and fertilizer soaring. Rising prices for basic food staples are fueling protests from Indonesia to Iran. European wheat prices have jumped 74 percent and benchmark palm oil futures went up 24 …

George Berci and Frank Shatz could have crossed paths in a Nazi labor camp or worked in the Hungarian underground nearly 80 years ago. But as far as they know the two Holocaust survivors met for the first time on Wednesday (May 18) in Los Angeles. Berci, 101, is a …

The string of record-breaking weather events and emergence of new diseases with time shows clealry that we do not have the luxury of ‘waiting this out. Despite progress made by many countries in devising more robust systems of early warning and responsive protection, which have led to far fewer people …