ISLAMABAD: After a gap of more than six months, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) finally has a chairman, as Prof Dr Niaz Ahmad Akhtar (Sitara-i-Imtiaz) assumed office on Friday with what he ...

If you were asked to picture how electrons move, you could be forgiven for imagining a stream of particles sluicing down a wire like water rushing through a pipe. After all, we often describe ...

Newly uncovered trade documents reveal that Russia’s state-controlled Promsvyazbank secretly shipped about $2.5 billion in cash to Iran in 2018, keeping Tehran’s economy afloat just as U.S. sanctions ...

Washington and Tehran are on a collision course. President Trump has made clear that Iran must abandon uranium enrichment, end its ballistic missile program, and stop training and sponsoring the ...

TJC LP (“TJC” or “the Firm”), a middle-market private equity firm investing primarily in North America, today announced that the Firm earned the #4 ranking on the HEC Paris-Dow Jones 2025 Global ...

A heavy security presence accompanied a crowd gathered in a square in downtown Tehran earlier this week. The streets around them were closed. But unlike a month ago, when anti-government protests ...

A senior Cuban diplomat has issued a scathing criticism of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whose longtime calls for the overthrow of the island nation's communist leadership appear to be gaining ...

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But what if it ain’t really working in the first place? That is the question that has long plagued the European Union when it comes to the single market. In theory, ...

Prominent Iranian dissidents, political leaders and intellectuals are seizing on last month’s deadly crackdown on protesters to step up calls for radical change. The country’s limited domestic ...

The US’s 64-year embargo on Cuba is about to get a lot tougher. The Trump administration has cut off the estimated 27,000 to 35,000-barrel-per-day deliveries of cheap Venezuelan oil to the island and ...

The UAE’s investments in Egypt plunged during 2024-2025 after record flow in the previous year with the signing of the multi-billion-dollar Ras Al-Hekma deal. The investments in Egypt soared to their ...