WASHINGTON: From Thursday (7th August, 2025) US commenced collecting 10% or higher tariffs from 60 countries and EU. It is yet to be seen whether the augmented tariffs and expected investment of billions of dollars by EU, Japan and Korea, contribute towards shrinking US trade deficits sans impacting the world supply chains or provoking retaliation […]
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São José dos Campos (BRAZIL): Airlink and Azorra have finalized a lease agreement that will see the Johannesburg-headquartered airline acquire 10 new Embraer E195-E2 twin-engine passenger aircraft, with the first delivery scheduled for later this year. This follows the previously announced selection of the E195-E2s by Airlink, South Africa’s leading full-service airline. Azorra, the Fort […]
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KARACHI: Alliance Française (French Cultural Centre here) was the venue where 38, senior as well as budding, visual artists converged from all over Pakistan to display their œuvres, depicting Sevasadan or Bazaar-e-Husn, novel penned a century ago by Munshi Premchand (1880 – 1936). Sevasadan/Bazaar-e-Husn proclaims that, despite passage of a hundred years , woman in […]
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S. WAZIRISTAN (KP): Unidentified militants detonated an IED and opened fire at a police vehicle near Shakai Stand in Wana Bazar here on Thursday (7th August, 2025) killing three pasersby and injuring 20 others (including cops). Attacks on LEA personnel and politicians is quite common in this region. For instance, an IED blast, carried out […]
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MASTUNG (BALOCHISTAN): Militants’ IED attack here, between the night of 5th-6th August, has claimed lives of three Pak army troops. Militants detonated an IED, when the vehicle carrying Pak army soldiers was passing near it, claiming lives of 31-year-old Major Muhammad Rizwan Tahir r/o Narowal district, 37-year-old Naik Ibni Amin r/o Swabi district, and 33-year-old […]
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KREMLIN: Two days before the expiry of Trump’s warning apropos augmentation of levies on commodities exported by Russia to USA if Moscow fails to stop the 42-month-long-war with Kyiv, Steve Witkoff, Envoy from Washington held talks with Putin here on Wednesday (6th August, 2025). It is pertinent to mention here that following the Putin-Witkoff rendezvous […]
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WHITE HOUSE: President Donald Trump has imposed an additional 25% tariff on India, for purchasing oil from Russia, by means of an executive order signed here on Wednesday (6th August, 2025). Text of the Executive Order: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of […]
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NEW DELHI: India, responding to US President’s Tariff threat, pointed out on Tuesday (5th of August, 2025) that India had been targeted by the US and the EU for importing oil from Russia after the commencement of the Ukraine conflict. “In fact, India began importing from Russia because traditional supplies were diverted to Europe after […]
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ISLAMABAD: British High Commissioner to Pakistan Jane Marriott has said that Chevening Scholarships serve as a launchpad for Pakistan’s exceptional future leaders. Jane Marriott encouraged those with leadership potential and a drive to make a difference to apply. Pakistani students, aspiring to study in UK, can apply for the fully-funded Chevening government scholarships programme 2025 […]
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WASHINGTON: The US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation released a 300-page report Tuesday (5th Aug 2025) following a 2-year probe on the implosion of submersible Titan (that was on a tourist expedition to Titanic wreckage) in 2023. Titan harboured five voyagers including 2 Pakistanis: 48-year-old businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman Dawood. […]
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