International

Lahore: A Canadian national who came to Pakistan this month to conduct doctoral research on 'anti-imperialist politics' has gone missing in Lahore city, police said Sunday. Lahore police have registered a kidnapping case against unidentified suspects on the complaint of Yousuf Rashid, a friend of...

Brisbane: US President Donald Trump has announced the United States will increase baseline tariffs on imports from all countries to 15 per cent, as the fallout continues from a seismic Supreme Court ruling Friday. Trump had imposed sweeping "reciprocal tariffs" last year under an emergency...

Islamabad: Pakistan, in a midnight military action targeted at least seven terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan in retaliation for the recent rebel attacks, it emerged early Sunday. In the latest terrorist incident, an army lieutenant colonel and a soldier were killed in a suicide attack in...

Washington: US President Donald Trump Saturday said that he was raising the proposed global tariff to 15 per cent, up from the 10 per cent he announced a day earlier. Trump said in a social media post on that he was making the decision "Based...

New York: Technology giant Microsoft has named Indian-origin Asha Sharma as Executive Vice President and CEO of Microsoft Gaming, joining a long and growing list of Indian-descent leaders at the helm of global companies. In a message announcing the appointment, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya...

Budapest (Hungary):  Hungary will block a planned 90-billion-euro (USD 106-billion) European Union loan to Ukraine until the flow of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline resumes, Hungary's foreign minister said. Russian oil shipments to Hungary and Slovakia have been interrupted since January 27, after Ukrainian...

Kyiv: Ukrainian drones struck an industrial site deep inside Russia Saturday, and a Russian news channel reported the target was a key state-owned missile factory. The attack took place in Russia's Udmurt Republic, leaving 11 injured, three of whom were hospitalised, according to a Telegram...

New Delhi: India and Brazil Saturday set an annual bilateral trade target of USD 30 billion by 2030 even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva discussed implications of the US Supreme Court striking down Trump administration's reciprocal tariffs....

Washington: The US military said Friday that it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. US Southern Command said on social media that the boat was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern...

New York: Businesses face a new wave of uncertainty after the Supreme Court struck down tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump under an emergency powers law, and Trump vowed to work around the ruling to keep his tariffs in place. The Trump administration says its...