Starbucks’ expansion runs out of steam in S.Africa
AFP | High operating costs and tight customer budgets have left US coffee giant Starbucks needing caffeine hit after it abandoned ambitious expansion plans in...
CCTV footage of Abidi’s assassination: what is the motive?
News Analysis | In a tragic incident former leader of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader and ex-MNA, Syed Ali Raza Abidi was shot dead in...
Destruction of tunnels from Lebanon ‘nearly done’: Netanyahu
AFP | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that the Israeli army's operation to locate and destroy cross-border tunnels dug by Hezbollah from Lebanon was...
US troop withdrawals threaten to fuel greater, potentially problematic Gulf assertiveness – James M. Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | As far as Gulf leaders are concerned, President Donald J. Trump demonstrated with his announced US troop withdrawals from Syria and...
Japan to resume commercial whaling after IWC withdrawal
AFP | Japan said Wednesday it is withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission and will resume commercial whaling next year, sparking criticism from activists and...
Public office holders vs. private business owners: PML-N and PTI at loggerheads
News Analysis | After the verdict of an accountability court against the ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have...
Prayers, fear in tsunami-struck Indonesian towns as toll tops 400
AFP | A small Christmas service was held near a stretch of Indonesia's tsunami-struck coastline Tuesday, as panicked residents in one coastal town tried to...
Pentagon, India don’t want troops out of Afghanistan: Gen (R) Ejaz Awan
News Desk | Prominent defense analyst and former General Officer Commanding of Swat Maj Gen ® Ejaz Awan has said that the US security establishment...
FM Qureshi arrives in Russia vis-à-vis Afghan dialogue process
News Analysis | Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi has reached Russia– the last stop of the four-nation tour– today (Wednesday, Dec 26) to...
Abidi’s assassination may have foreign involvement: Information Minister Punjab
News Desk | Expressing his concern at the murder of Senior MQM leader Ali Raza Abidi, Punjab’s information minister Fayyaz Ul Hassan Chauhan has said...
10,500 arrests ahead of Bangladesh poll: opposition
AFP | Bangladesh police have arrested more than 10,500 opposition activists in a crackdown ahead of elections this week, opposition parties said Tuesday. The figures...
Queen warns of ‘tribalism’ in Christmas address
AFP | Queen Elizabeth II warned of religious "tribalism" in a Christmas message on Tuesday delivered against a backdrop of Britain bickering over its impending...