Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday announced that the bidding process for the privatisation of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) would be broadcast live on national television, emphasizing that full transparency and merit would remain the government’s foremost priorities. “The entire bidding on December 23, 2025, will be aired live on all media channels so that […]
The shooting of National Guard members in Washington, DC, over which an Afghan immigrant has been charged, has nothing to do with Afghanistan’s people or its government, Afghan Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said on Wednesday. Muttaqi’s comments are the first on the incident by the Afghan Taliban government, and come a week after […]
Lebanese and Israeli civilian representatives held their first direct talks in decades on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, under a year-old ceasefire monitoring mechanism in the war with Hezbollah. The two sides met at the UN peacekeeping force’s headquarters in Lebanon’s Naqura near the border with Israel, as part of a mechanism […]
Paris offered an unexpectedly decadent spectacle when some of France’s most decorated pastry chefs turned chocolate into high art, drawing generous bids at an unusual charity auction that blended culinary mastery, craftsmanship and a heartfelt cause supporting children with leukaemia. The event, staged in the French capital and led by renowned pastry chef Pierre Herme, […]
James Cameron’s return to Pandora with ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ is gathering momentum as early reactions praise the film’s scale, technical audacity and emotional reach, even as the director publicly reinforces his refusal to let generative AI replace human actors in the franchise. Journalists offered their first impressions after a recent screening, describing the third […]