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Karachi is sinking under a twin crisis: ‘mountains of garbage’ left rotting a week after Eidul Azha, and an 85 MGD water shortfall now in its third day. With tanker prices doubled, waits stretching…
Marco Rubio's testimony is less a policy announcement than an admission: Washington let China walk into its own backyard. With…
Washington's verdict on Beijing's role in the Iran crisis is in: cautious, not complicit. Rubio told Congress China has not aided…
Marco Rubio has drawn a sharp red line on Gaza: no demilitarisation of Hamas, no reconstruction money. Pitching an international…
Trump's choice of Bill Pulte — a figure with no national security, military or law enforcement background — to temporarily run…
Rubio's pitch to Congress reframes US foreign aid as a results-led instrument of national interest, not a spending metric. With…
The $100,000 H-1B fee debate has jumped from hospital wards to classrooms. Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski has put rural schools…
A J-1 visa waiver backlog at the US Office of Global Affairs could force hundreds of foreign-trained doctors — many of them…
A $100,000 H-1B surcharge designed to deter Silicon Valley body-shopping is now squeezing rural American hospitals that depend on…
