International

Washington: The United States Wednesday finalised a federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins, introducing requirements for financial reserves, redemption, risk management and supervision as the Trump administration seeks to strengthen American leadership in digital finance. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which...

London: Indian-origin author Shrabani Basu and broadcaster Reeta Chakrabarti were unveiled Wednesday as part of the judging panel of the 2027 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction worth 30,000 pounds in London. The prestigious annual prize, which also includes a Fiction category worth the same prize money,...

Moscow: President Vladimir Putin agreed Wednesday to resume trilateral negotiations with Washington and Kyiv on ending the war in Ukraine, a Kremlin official said. The Russian leader has agreed in principle to resume the talks after November 10, Putin's foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov told...

Athens: Thousands of students and teachers marched through the streets of the Greek capital of Athens Wednesday, calling for affordable student housing and more state investment in education, as protests that have swept Europe spread further. Similar protests were being held in several cities in...

Islamabad: Pakistan and the Maldives Wednesday signed 20 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) to strengthen cooperation in various fields, including defence, maritime security and artificial intelligence. The agreements were inked during the visit of Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu, who arrived in Islamabad Tuesday on a three-day...

Kabul: Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir is considering a sweeping restructuring of the country’s administrative map that could divide its four provinces into as many as 12 to 15 smaller provinces, raising concerns over provincial autonomy and the military’s expanding grip on civilian politics, a...

Islamabad: As many as 10 people were killed and 44 others injured as a bus overturned after colliding with a road divider on the Indus Highway in Rojhan tehsil of Rajanpur district in Pakistan's Punjab province, local media reported Wednesday citing rescue authorities. The accident...

Kabul: Nearly 16 million people in Afghanistan are experiencing acute food insecurity, including 3.4 million facing emergency levels of hunger, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, adding that the conditions are likely to worsen during the winter months, local media...

Washington: The Trump administration said that more than three million migrants have left the United States since President Donald Trump returned to office, as the White House unveiled a sweeping assessment of its immigration crackdown, including a sharp decline in border crossings, mass deportations and...

Milan: Some supermarket shelves and gas station pumps were empty in the southern city of Naples due to a weeklong protest by truck drivers against the high cost of diesel driven up by the Iran war. Protesters blocked the loading and unloading of fresh food...