A message from US President Donald Trump on Wednesday landed like a grenade in Brazil, bringing the relationship between the two countries to an all-time low. Trump pledged to impose tariffs on Brazil at a rate as high as 50%. He accused the country of “attacks” on US tech companies and of conducting a “witch…
1:04Watch: The story of Jane Birkin’s £7m handbag The original Birkin bag, which set the template for arguably the most coveted accessory in fashion history, has been bought for €8.6m (£7.4m; $10.1m), becoming the most valuable handbag ever sold at auction. The black leather bag was made for singer Jane Birkin in 1985 after she…
When she started in vitro fertilisation (IVF) last November, Kim Mi-ae knew it would be a gruelling test of patience – something she had already endured when she conceived her first child three years ago. But what shocked her this time around were the “crazy” waits at the fertility clinic. “When I went in January,…
For weeks, a battle over language and identity has been raging in India’s richest state, Maharashtra. The row began in April after the Maharashtra government made it compulsory for state-run primary schools to teach Hindi as a third language, apart from English and Marathi (the state’s dominant language). This, it said, was in line with…
0:37Watch: Afghanistan taxi drivers use handmade coolers to beat the heat In a sweltering city in Afghanistan, taxis have been spotted with scrubby barrels and exhaust tubes mounted to their roofs. These are the hand-made air coolers that taxi drivers have cobbled together in their desperate efforts to beat the heat. Temperatures regularly exceed 40C…
“Deeply regrettable” is how Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has described US President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat – a 25% levy on Japanese goods. Tokyo, a long-time US ally, has been trying hard to avoid exactly this. It has been seeking concessions for its beleaguered car makers, while resisting pressure to open its markets…
US President Donald Trump has said he will impose a 35% tariff on Canadian goods starting on 1 August, even as the two countries were days away from a self-imposed deadline to reach a new trade deal. The announcement came in the form of a letter published on Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, along…
Yoon will be housed in a 10 square-metre solitary cell SEOUL (Reuters) – Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was back in a solitary jail cell on Thursday with basic food and a khaki prison uniform after prosecutors secured a new detention warrant over his bid to impose martial law last year. The Seoul…
Over 158,000 children to be vaccinated in high-risk districts KARACHI (Web Desk) – Pakistan will launch a targeted five-day polio vaccination campaign next week, aiming to immunise more than 158,000 children in high-risk districts of the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region and northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, health authorities said on Wednesday. The campaign will be conducted exclusively…
The campaign will select one organisation to receive a produced short film at no cost ISLAMABAD: Two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on Wednesday launched a new initiative through her production house, SOC Films, to highlight the work done by grassroots projects and nonprofit organisations in Pakistan through storytelling. The campaign, titled Frame It Forward,…
