Новости за 05.01.2025

KARACHI: A man arranges dried fruits and nuts in a shop in F.B. Area, on Saturday.—Fahim Siddiqi/White Star

KARACHI: While already struggling under high food inflation and utility bills, consumers face another challenging experience of paying exorbitant prices for dried fruits in which high-quality pine nut (chilgoza) takes the lead with a price tag ranging between Rs12,000-14,000 per kg.

ISLAMABAD: The Asian Infra­structure Investment Bank (AIIB) will provide $210.12 million in fin­ancing to Pakistan to reconstruct National Highway N-5 under the Resilient Recovery, Rehabili­tation and Reconstruction Framework.

LONDON: US President-elect Donald Trump has criticised the British government’s energy policy with a demand the country “open up” the ageing North Sea oil and gas basin and get rid of wind farms.

ON Nov 30, 2024, the world was jolted by a bold statement from US President-elect Donald Trump. In a move that drew attention from governments, currency experts and global markets alike, Trump threatened to impose 100 per cent tariffs on BRICS, a bloc of nine nations, if they continued to undermine the dollar.

KARACHI: After turning in an unprecedented bullish performance in 2024, the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) began the new year with a rousing start, resuming its record-setting spree in the outgoing week amid relative political stability, improved data and the launch of an ambitious five-year economic roadmap.

• Qaiser threatens to dissolve negotiating committee if party not given ‘uninterrupted access’ to Imran
• Siddiqui says PTI’s reluctance to share written charter of demand may pose challenges to talks

GILGIT: People of Hunza continued their sit-in at Aliabad for the second consecutive day on Saturday, blocking Karakoram Highway in protest against 22-hour loadshedding and demanding uninterrupted power supply to the area where temperatures have plunged to 20 degrees below freezing point.

• Banned BLA claims responsibility for suicide attack
• SSP, his family among 35 injured in explosion
• President, PM, CM condemn terrorist attack

ISLAMABAD: The opposition PTI has condemned the government for allegedly throttling the internet “in an attempt to target PTI under the pretext of security concerns” despite its significant economic implications.

LAHORE: Federal Minister for Development Ahsan Iqbal has said the government wants to keep political temperature down for economic stability.

For over a decade now, several books have claimed that one country or the other is on the verge of ‘collapse’. Most of these books are about China. Other favourites in this regard include Saudi Arabia, Russia and Pakistan. A large number of these tomes are written by American or European authors. However, so far none of their predictions have come true.

VALENCIA: Late strikes from Luka Modric and Jude Bellingham earned 10-man Real Madrid a 2-1 comeback win at relegation-threatened Valencia on Friday as the visitors moved top of the La Liga standings.

GUJRAT: At least five children from a family, including four siblings and their cousin, were found dead due to suffocation caused by smoke from burning coals used to keep warm.

BEIJING: A Chinese scientist has named 16 new spider species after songs by popular “Mandopop” musician Jay Chou. Mi Xiaoqi, a professor at Tongren University in China’s southwestern Guizhou province, listed the newly discovered arachnids in a paper published in the academic journal Zoological Research: Diversity and Conservation.

RIO DE JANEIRO: Last year was Brazil’s hottest on record, its weather agency said on Friday, after a record-breaking drought and flooding in the South American country that climate experts have linked to global warming.

NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s embattled junta government on Saturday said it would release almost 6,000 prisoners as part of an annual amnesty to mark the country’s independence day.

BEIJING: A fire at a vegetable market in north China killed eight people and injured 15 on Saturday, local authorities reported.

NEW YORK: The US Surgeon General’s warning of an increased risk of cancer from drinking alcohol may end up resonating most with younger Americans — who in recent years were already turning to mocktails and juices instead of alcoholic drinks.

CAPE TOWN: Thousands of colourfully costumed minstrels paraded through Cape Town on Saturday in an exuberant century-old carnival rooted in the South African city’s history of slavery that drew large crowds of spectators.

TOKYO: The world’s oldest person, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, has died at the age of 116, the city of Ashiya where she lived announced on Saturday.

CAIRO: The Islamist takeover of Syria has left Egypt apprehensive and cautiously calibrating future ties, years after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power by toppling the Muslim Brotherhood.