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A Swiss woman's kidnapping in Lahore has spiralled into a political storm — with allegations pointing to a relative of Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar. Rights activists are drawing…
Nepal's Q3 GDP growth of 3.51% looks positive on the surface — but it's slower than last year, manufacturing has slipped back…
Pakistani authorities banned the JAAC as a 'terrorist' group on 5 June — and the blowback has now spilled into open street…
A CSIS report upends a key assumption about a Taiwan conflict: China would hurt itself most. With $1.3 trillion in Chinese trade…
The EU has quietly ended a decades-old customs loophole that let billions of low-value parcels — mostly from China — enter…
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former DOGE co-lead and 2024 presidential candidate, argues on X that bipartisan federal spending…
The White House honoured unnamed heroes on 6 July 2026, posting a patriotic tribute that invokes the Pledge of Allegiance's…
A mechanical failure sent a Herat-to-Kabul passenger bus off the road in Zabul province on 6 July, killing one and hospitalising…
Balochistan's Rs 1.13 trillion budget has triggered protests, arrests, and a province-wide shutdown call — even before it was…
