An Iraqi-Emirati consortium plans a $700 million subsea-and-terrestrial data cable linking the United Arab Emirates to Turkey via Iraq, one of the project’s backers said, just over a week after the announcement of a Saudi-backed fibre-optic project in Syria. Gulf neighbours Saudi Arabia and the UAE are each trying to tap into demand for connectivity […]
Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus stepped down on Monday in a farewell broadcast to the nation, before handing over the reins to an elected government. “Today, the interim government is stepping down,” the 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner said. “But let the practice of democracy, freedom of speech and fundamental rights that has begun not […]
The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has issued a draft of amendments to the Solar Policy 2026 that roll backs some controversial changes to its net metering policy, it emerged on Monday. NEPRA recently significantly revised the terms of contracts for all existing and future net-metered solar consumers — or prosumers — in an […]
Flooding and fierce winds have pushed Madagascar’s death toll from Cyclone Gezani to 59, with more than a dozen people still unaccounted for, the country’s disaster agency said on Monday. It is the latest in a string of tropical storms to batter the southern African island in recent months, underscoring its vulnerability to increasingly extreme […]
The Airport Security Force (ASF) seized a large quantity of gold from a passenger bound for Dubai during a search at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport on Monday. Speaking to The Express Tribune, an ASF official said the passenger, identified as Shahzad Ahmed, was intercepted during routine screening. During a physical search, officials recovered 18 […]
Trading at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) opened the week on a sharply negative note, as heavy selling pressure dragged equities deep into the red. In a show of extreme volatility, the benchmark KSE-100 index oscillated between an intraday high of 179,969.23 and a low of 173,574.26. Sustained selling pressure dominated the session, dragging the […]
Social media platform X was down for thousands of users in the United States and Britain on Monday, according to Downdetector.com. There were more than 23,210 reports of issues with X as of 8:24am ET (1324 GMT), according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. The monitor also […]
Collin Morikawa claimed a tense victory at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in California on Sunday, fending off a final-day charge by top-ranked Scottie Scheffler that included three eagles. Double major-winner Morikawa had not triumphed on the PGA Tour since 2023, but started the day in joint-second and birdied the final hole in blustery conditions to […]
A roadside bomb has been reported in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber District, killing a female passerby. Khyber Deputy Police Officer Waqar Ahmed told The Express Tribune that the explosion occurred in the Karpa area of Barda. Local police authorities reached the site and have launched an investigation, officials told this correspondent. The blast comes amid a series […]
Pakistan captain Salman Agha urged perspective after a chastening defeat against India in a contest that never matched its blockbuster billing. The much-hyped showdown between the South Asian neighbours, who engaged in a military conflict that nearly snowballed into a fully-fledged war last year, failed to ignite as India racked up 175-7 and then returned […]