Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show. A cache of previously unreported documents reviewed by Reuters also shows that the social-media giant for at least three years failed […]
Pakistan Railways recorded 95 train accidents between January 1 and December 20, 2025, according to official data obtained by Express News. The data shows the railway system faced challenges ranging from terrorism and derailments to collisions and flood-related damage, while officials said large-scale infrastructure modernisation remained limited during the year. Of the reported incidents, 46 […]
Pakistan’s Chief of Defence Forces, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, has received Saudi Arabia’s highest national honour, the King Abdulaziz Medal of Excellence. In a statement released by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military’s media wing, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir met Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Defence, Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, […]
The Kremlin toned down expectations ahead of a third day of Ukraine settlement talks in Miami Sunday, saying proposed changes to the plan to end the war were a non-starter. Washington last month stunned Ukraine and its European allies by presenting a 28-point plan to end the war, widely seen as caving in to the […]
Somalia will deploy more than 10,000 security personnel in the capital, Mogadishu, ahead of next week’s local elections — the first direct polls in nearly 60 years — the security minister said on Sunday. The east African country is struggling to emerge from decades of conflict and chaos, battling a bloody Islamist insurgency and frequent natural disasters. […]
Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school in November, a presidential spokesman said Sunday, after 100 were freed earlier this month. “Another 130 abducted Niger state pupils released, none left in captivity,” Sunday Dare said in a post on X, accompanied by a photo of […]
US Senator Lindsey Graham called on Sunday for renewed military action against Hamas and Hezbollah if they fail to disarm and accused the Palestinian Islamist group of consolidating its power in Gaza. The Republican politician, on a visit to Israel, is a staunch ally of US President Donald Trump. Beginning in October, a fragile ceasefire […]
Dr Abdul Haleem Khan, the grandson of the first prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Khan Abdul Hameed Khan, passed away in Peshawar on Sunday. He had been suffering from heart disease. The late Dr Khan was the elder brother of Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) and former finance minister Abdul Majeed […]
An opposition parties’ alliance — the Tehreek Tahaffuz-e-Ain Pakistan (TTAP) — has demanded an independent investigation into the alleged rigging in the February 8, 2024 general elections. The alliance has also called for an immediate appointment of an impartial chief election commissioner, and the holding of free and fair elections under a new Election Commission […]
China’s merchandise trade surplus surged by $111.7 billion in November, reaching an impressive $1.08 trillion for the first 11 months of the year, a 22.1% increase compared to the same period of last year, according to official data. Western media has described the massive trade surplus as “remarkable,” but also warned that it could be […]