Hungary under pressure to ratify Sweden’s NATO bid after EU deal
Budapest: Pressure is mounting on Hungary to ratify Sweden's bid to join NATO after Budapest finally joined other European Union...
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Italy: Scandal-plagued minister quits government
Milan: Italian junior culture minister Vittorio Sgarbi announced his resignation on Friday amid a storm of scandals that has engulfed...
UK opposition Labour party pledge productivity fix in latest pitch to business
London: Britain's opposition Labour Party will pledge to fix Britain's stagnating productivity at a conference for businesses on Thursday, its...
UK police manhunt after ‘corrosive substance’ attack on family
London: UK police were on Thursday hunting a suspect who attacked a woman and her two young daughters with a...
UK awards 24 new oil and gas licences
London: The UK’s North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has awarded 24 licences as part of the second tranche of the...
Ukraine support package worth €50bn agreed by EU leaders
Brussels: All 27 EU leaders have agreed a €50bn aid package for Ukraine after Hungary had previously blocked the deal....
Over a third of EU firms adopt AI, bringing digital goals in reach
Stockholm: More than a third of European businesses adopted artificial intelligence in 2023 as use of generative AI surged, a...
Pakistan to host more than 80 SCO events by November
Islamabad: Pakistan is set host more than 80 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) related events until November this year, with a...
Pakistan’s education demand provides opportunity for UK higher education
Celina Ali Islamabad: The British Council launched its "Mapping International Student Mobility from Pakistan" report at an event in Islamabad....
UK minister: Brexit checks ‘price you pay for being a sovereign state again’
London: British businesses experiencing “some friction” when trading with the European Union after Brexit is the “price you pay” for...
EU ‘concerned’ over Hong Kong’s new security law proposal
Brussels: The European Union has raised concerns that Hong Kong’s plan for a new national security law may weaken the...
EU’s Borrell hopes lead of EU red sea mission will be known soon
Brussels: EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Wednesday he was hopeful it could be decided later in the...
Ambassador Khalil Hashmi presents his credentials to President Xi Jinping
Beijing: Ambassador Khalil Hashmi presented his credentials as the 22nd Ambassador of Pakistan to China, to Chinese President Xi Jinping...
China’s mobile phone shipments up 6.5% in 2023
Islamabad: China’s mobile phone shipments rose 6.5 percent year-on-year to 289 million units in 2023, according to the China Academy...
UK will consider recognising Palestinian state, says David Cameron
London: Britain will consider recognising a Palestinian state as part of concerted efforts to bring about an “irreversible” peace settlement,...
New post-Brexit customs checks spark UK border worries
London: Britain will finally roll out post-Brexit border checks on Jan 31 on food, plant and animal products imported from...
EU needs trillions of euros in investment for 2050 climate target: Research
Brussels: The European Union will need €1.5 trillion (S$2.1 trillion) a year of investments to meet its 2050 net-zero emissions...
PM reaffirms Pakistan’s commitment to strengthen ties with Iran
Celina Ali Islamabad: Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Monday called on Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar and discussed...
PIAF lauds significant rise in China-Pakistan bilateral trade volume in RMB
Gwadar Pro IslamabadL: Pakistan Industrial and Traders Associations Front (PIAF) has expressed appreciation for the notable increase in China-Pakistan bilateral...
UK and France’s small boats pact and doubling in drownings ‘directly linked’
London: The most recent illegal migration pact between the UK and France is “directly linked” to a doubling of the...
UK says it thwarted Houthis’ drone attack in the Red Sea
A UK vessel shot down a Houthi drone in the Red Sea, the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence has said,...
Europe’s farmers send a loud pre-election message
Afumati: Amid a noisy line of vehicles obstructing the ring road of Bucharest, a farmer emerged holding a lamb with...
Xinjiang ports register record high cargo throughput in 2023
Urumqi: The import and export cargo volume through land ports in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region reached a record...
China’s public offering fund value hits 27.6 trln yuan
Beijing: The assets under the management of China's public offering funds totaled 27.6 trillion yuan (about 3.88 trillion U.S. dollars)...
UK Post Office chief sacked as firm reels from IT scandal
London: UK Business Minister Kemi Badenoch on Sunday (Jan 28) said she had sacked the chairman of the Post Office...
UK: Governments facing wipeout will always cut taxes but there are better uses for £20bn windfall
London: UK politics is stuck in a holding pattern. Ever since Liz Truss’s seven-week stint as prime minister, opinion polls...
4 years’ jail for woman who poured boiling soup on friend after argument
Berlin: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on Sunday for the European Union to complete its creation of a banking and...
Pakistan, Marshall Islands formally establish diplomatic ties
Pakistan and Republic of Marshall Islands, a Pacific Island country, have signed a joint communique to formally establish diplomatic relations....
New mechanism introduced to protect government servants from NAB harassment
Islamabad: In a major development, a new mechanism has been introduced to save government servants from unnecessary harassment and arbitrary...
Four Rwandans ‘granted refugee status in UK over fears of persecution’
Four Rwandans have reportedly been granted refugee status in Britain over “well-founded” fears of persecution, as Rishi Sunak pushes forward...
