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THE last few years have been the warmest ever recorded in the Arctic Circle. This means that a large portion of the ice cap is melting, and with it...
DURING the afternoon of April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse bisected the US. Not everyone sees solar and lunar eclipses as purely scientific events...
IT happens twice a month. Every 15 days the government decides whether or not to tighten the noose around the necks of Pakistan’s masses. Last...
NOLAND Arbaugh, 29, was a student and athlete at the Texas A&M University when he was paralysed during a diving accident eight years ago. Arbaugh had...
THE Israeli genocide in Gaza has stretched into Ramazan. The unspeakable horrors that have been visited upon the Palestinians have now led to the...
IT has been 13 years since the US raid on the Osama bin Laden compound. A CIA-operated fake vaccination drive was used to locate the Al Qaeda chief....
ON March 8, 2024, the world will commemorate International Women’s Day as it does every year. This year, perhaps much more than other years, the day...
IN Pakistan, we do things family style, and politics is a part of family. Elections are contested family style — brothers, uncles, sons and...
THERE is no doubt that the first few years of this third decade of the 21st century have been filled by unexpected calamities across the continents....
THERE was a time when Valentine’s Day and its attendant celebration of love and sweethearts was an event when everyone who was single had to suffer....
EVER SINCE Israel began its offensive in Gaza, Israeli propaganda has produced social media content that shows the female soldiers of the Israeli...
FOR months now, Muslims across the world have seen the people of Gaza suffer unspeakable horrors. According to the United Nations, the condition is...
IT is the slum that earned Hollywood millions of dollars. Dharavi, the slum pictured in the 2008 blockbuster movie Slumdog Millionaire, is estimated...
THERE used to be a time when the ultimate symbol of a good life was being able to have plenty of time for leisure activities. One can still read about...
JANUARY 6, 2024, fell on a Saturday, marking two years since a furious mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol and sent lawmakers...
IT has been estimated that 99.9 per cent of all species on our planet died out. One of the things that Charles Darwin said about human beings or Homo...
ONE of the most terrifying things about the Covid-19 pandemic was that the world was very unprepared for a global pandemic of its nature and scale....
IT is sad that a visit to many of the most famous museums in the world feels like a visit to the treasure trove of a global looter. When one visits...
THE figure of the loan shark has always been a grim and fear-inducing one. For centuries, the creditor showing up at your door to demand money has...
THIS year, just like every year, UN Women is commemorating 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence from Nov 25 to Dec 10. This annual...
EVERY year, thousands of tourists visit the ruins of the Italian city of Pompeii. This city, which sits at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, was destroyed...
THIS past Monday marked World Children’s Day — a day when the international community comes together to commit to a better future for the...
CONCERNS have grown further with the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) reaching the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza. According to reports from those who are...
IF you are one of the many millions on Earth in possession of a social media account, then none of what you are about to read here will be at all...
A LOT of things about the current conflict between the state of Israel and the occupied territories of Palestine reflect past positions. Just like it...
THE history of South Asia and most other outposts of the British (or the Dutch or French) is replete with the struggles of the ancestors of...
IT was a hot one. In fact, climate scientists who study Earth’s temperature have found that September 2023 was perhaps the hottest September ever...
THE sequel to the movie The Exorcist was finally released in theatres in the US last week. Some 50 years after the original was released, the movie...
IN June of this year, the Pakistani government had issued two tenders to buy LNG on the international market but didn’t receive any bids....
WHILE one part of the world remains immersed in territorial warfare — Russian tanks versus Ukrainian missiles — another attacker, which is not so...
THE situation in the country has become dire. For the past year, nearly every month has brought with it a feeling of foreboding. This, many Pakistanis...
WITH great wealth comes great privilege. In the case of the US, that privilege extends to the creation of a sterilised distance between the dying and...
https://arab.news/mf4zv Last week, Franc evacuated five women who were “threatened” by the Taliban from Pakistan to Paris. The two years during...