The other Kim summit: Trump keeps up Kardashian at White House meet

AFP | Days away from a historic summit with North Korea's mercurial leader, US President Donald Trump held a White House meeting Wednesday with another...

Smartphone market to stay cool this year: forecast

AFP | International Data Corporation forecast Wednesday that global smartphone sales would cool this year before heating up with help from new 5G networks and...

Heartbreaker? Smoking causing millions of heart attacks, strokes: WHO

AFP | While the link between smoking and a range of cancers is well known, the World Health Organization warned Thursday there was too little...

The Hardest Hard Power

Aisha Saeed | The term ‘power’ in international relations has various interpretations but remains a vital part of the subject throughout. Power is one of...

Afghan forces mistakenly kill civilians, their credibility under question

News Analysis | Afghan security forces carried out an operation in the eastern Nangarhar province which resulted in the death of 9 people and wounding...

Pakistan crosses 150 million mobile subscribers milestone

News Desk | Pakistan ended April with 150.1 million mobile subscribers, up from 144.53 million in December 2017, according to a report from the Pakistan...

Chinese-owned Mediapro grab French football TV rights in mega 1bn euro offer

AFP | Chinese-owned Mediapro crashed French football's television rights party in style Tuesday, snapping up the right to broadcast Ligue 1 matches domestically for the...

Interior ministry puts ex-spymaster Durrani’s name on Exit Control List

News Analysis | The interior ministry on Tuesday placed the name of embattled former director general (DG) Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), retired Lt Gen Asad Durrani, on Exit Control...

Murder of anti-Kremlin war reporter shocks Russians

AFP | Russia's embattled liberal community was reeling Wednesday from the murder of fiercely anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko who was gunned down in Ukraine after...

Saudi Arabia seeks to criminalise sexual harassment

AFP | Saudi Arabia is preparing to outlaw sexual harassment, officials said Tuesday, less than a month before the conservative kingdom lifts its decades-long ban...

School shooter video game draws criticism

AFP | An upcoming video game that lets players simulate a school shooting is coming in for criticism from parents of shooting victims and from...

Police clear biggest migrant camp in Paris

AFP | Security forces moved in on the biggest migrant camp in the French capital on Wednesday where some 1,700 people lived in makeshift tents...