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Pakistan has raised diesel and petrol prices in a one-week revision directly linked to the Strait of Hormuz blockade — a rare instance of a geopolitical chokepoint hitting Pakistani consumers at the…
Former US NIH Director Dr Elias Zerhouni says India is no longer just the world's pharmacy — it's becoming a genuine…
WHO/Europe has handed Denmark's CHIP centre a four-year mandate to drive Europe's fight against HIV, hepatitis, TB, and STIs —…
The UN Security Council has slashed UNMISS's troop ceiling by nearly 26% — from 17,000 to 12,500 — as it renewed the South Sudan…
Trump's latest executive order takes direct aim at one of Washington's oldest spending habits — the cost-plus contract — by…
The United States has once again placed India on its Priority Watch List for intellectual property (IP) concerns, citing…
At a Senate hearing on America's largest-ever proposed defence budget, top US officials branded China the head of an 'axis of…
Pete Hegseth faced a Senate buzzsaw on 1 May — senators called the Iran war 'stuck', the Strait of Hormuz still closed, and the…
Trump's new executive order doesn't just tweak retirement policy — it targets a structural blind spot in the US savings system.…
