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"Pakistanis Have Done Good Job Of Sucking Up To Trump": Mehdi Hasan To NDTV
Pakistan has "done a good job" in cultivating closeness with Trump, Mehdi Hasan told NDTV's Vishnu Som in an exclusive interview.
US Student Arrested For Jokingly Asking Benjamin Netanyahu to "Drop Bombs" On Her College
FIU police said they worked with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office to identify the student.
In Bombed Facilities, Unstable Tunnels, US' Toughest Uranium Extraction Yet
Before US and Israeli strikes in June 2025, the International Atomic Energy Agency estimated that Iran possessed roughly 441 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 per cent, alongside approximately 200 kilograms enriched to 20 per cent.
Myanmar Regime Expands Ban On Menstrual Products Amid Claims Of Misuse By Rebels: Report
Not just menstruation products, the regime made similar claims about restrictions on medicine, bandages and disinfectant.
Harvard Gave Epstein What He Wanted, Kept Giving After He Left Jail: Report
Newly released US Justice Department documents reviewed by The New York Times showed how Harvard professors continued to nurture relationship by visiting Jeffrey Epstein
Iran Says "No Plans For Negotiation" After US Seizes Its Cargo Ship
US President Donald Trump said he was sending negotiators to Pakistan for talks on ending the war that engulfed the region and rattled global markets, while repeating threats to attack Iran's energy infrastructure if it did not make a deal.
Middle East crisis live: Iran sends mixed signals on talks after US seizes ship
Official tells Reuters it is ‘positively reviewing’ involvement in negotiations after earlier saying it had no plans for a new round of talksThe US has just released some more footage of the encounter with the Iranian flagged vessel, the M/V Touska.In a post on X, US Central Command said US Marines had departed the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli by helicopter and rappelled onto the Iranian-flagged vessel. Continue reading...
US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN
Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets The $2bn (£1.5bn) a week that Donald Trump was spending on his reckless war in Iran could have funded saving more than 87 million lives, the head of the UN’s humanitarian agency, Tom Fletcher, said on Monday.He also warned the normalisation of violent language, such as threatening to bomb Iran back to the stone ages, was very dangerous since it encourages every “wannabe autocrat” to use similar threats and tactics, including the destruction of civilians and civilian infrastructure. Continue reading...
Oil prices rise and markets fall after US seizure of ship hits Iran peace deal hopes
FTSE 100 slides and UK gas prices up amid fears strait of Hormuz will be closed for extended periodMiddle East crisis – live updatesBusiness live – latest updatesOil prices rose sharply and European stock markets fell on Monday after the US seizure of an Iranian vessel dented hopes for a peace deal.Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, rose by 5% to about $95 a barrel. Continue reading...
Elon Musk snubs Paris legal summons over alleged child abuse images on X
Billionaire owner elects not to attend voluntary interview as part of investigation by French cybercrime unitElon Musk did not appear on Monday for a voluntary interview with lawyers in Paris, who had summoned the American tech billionaire over an investigation into his social media platform X and AI chatbot Grok.The prosecutors told AFP that they had “taken note of the absence of the first people summoned”, without mentioning Musk’s name. The billionaire called the French authorities involved “retards” weeks earlier in a French-language post on X. Continue reading...
Polymarket in fundraising talks that could value the prediction platform at $15bn
Bets placed on Middle East conflict has led to US firm experiencing big increase in volumePolymarket, the online prediction platform that hosts bets on events such as the Iran war, is in talks to raise $400m (£296m) at a valuation of up to $15bn.The company has gained notoriety in recent months over wagers placed on the Middle East conflict, including on the timing of US-Israel strikes against Iran, and on a US-Iran ceasefire, some of which appeared to bear signs of insider trading. Continue reading...
Opinion: Opinion | Pakistan's Ever-Running Saudi 'Lifeline' Has Its Limits
There is a gap between what Pakistan seeks from its Gulf partners and their willingness to offer it.
