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Humanitarian system at breaking point as funding cuts force life-or-death choices: Top UN official

UNITED NATIONS, MAR 13 (APP/DNA):The global humanitarian system has reached breaking point, with funding cuts forcing life-or-death decisions over which aid programmes to sustain and which to shut down, according Read More

Trump blasts Ireland on trade during traditional visit

WASHINGTON, MAR 13 (AFP/APP/DNA):It was perhaps not the welcome Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin had hoped for on an annual US trip to mark Saint Patrick’s Day — a dressing Read More

Australia Condemns Jaffar Express Attack, Stands with Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, MAR 13 (DNA):The Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Neil Hawkins condemned the attack on Jaffar Express: “The Australian Government condemns the attack and hijacking of the Jaffar Express Train Read More

United Nations Resident Coordinator calls on Finance Minister

ISLAMABAD, MAR 11 (DNA): Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, held today an important meeting at the Finance Division with Mr. Mohammed Yahya, the United Nations Resident Read More

Iran says ‘no justification’ for attacks on Alawites and other minorities in Syria

TEHRAN, MAR 10 (AFP/APP/DNA):Iran’s foreign ministry said Monday there was “no justification” for attacks on minorities in Syria, including Alawites, the community to which toppled president Bashar al-Assad, a long-time Read More

Texas tech boom: Silicon Valley’s southern outpost rises

AUSTIN, MAR 10 (AFP/APP/DNA):Held every year in the capital of conservative-leaning Texas, the South by Southwest festival increasingly celebrates the state’s emergence as a technology hub stepping out of Silicon Read More