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...

Why Spy chronicles’ won’t rescue Nawaz?

Waqas Shabbir | Some term them untold; few call them old wine in a new bottle. The significance of the much-talked-about ‘Spy chronicles’ may not...

Walk and chew gum, it may keep you thin: study

AFP | Still looking for the secret to effortless weight loss? It may be as simple as chewing gum while walking, Japanese researchers suggested on...

Saudi Arabia’s drone scare might have really been a coup attempt

Andrew Korybko | Nobody seems to believe Saudi Arabia’s official explanation that the extended gunfire that reportedly took place near the royal palace over the...

Syria to head UN’s body for disarmament, an ironical twist

News Analysis | In a paradox, Syria has been appointed as the head of the United Nations-backed disarmament body as the result of the rotation...

GVS Économie

News Desk | Noor Financial divests another 0.28 percent share in Meezan Bank to foreign buyers. In a notification sent to the stock exchange on...

Korean War hero doubtful of Trump-Kim peace prospects

AFP | As a decorated war hero who once took out three machine gun nests with nothing but grenades, Choi Deuk-soo knows first hand what...