US reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian says she is feeling ‘extra grateful’ this morning that she gets to wake up with her cuties Penelope and Reign. Taking to Instagram, the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star shared a morning selfie with her two youngest kids and wrote, “Feeling extra grateful this morning that I get to wake up with these cuties, for …

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ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet has approved payment of $28.7 million in damages to the Washington-based asset recovery firm Broadsheet LLC and at the same time decided to challenge the British court’s decision to attach the accounts of the Pakistan High Commission in London. The approval was granted after the office of the attorney general and the law ministry advised the government to …

Movie theater operators, after a year of dismal ticket sales during the pandemic, are hoping a lineup of superheroes, fighter pilots and cinema’s most famous spy will help them stage a comeback in 2021. Roughly two-thirds of theaters remain shut in the United States and Canada, normally the world’s largest film market. Box office receipts in 2020 plunged 80% from …

A lot of us have spent most of the past year in a comfy pair of pyjamas. The coronavirus up-ended life as we knew it and changed a lot that we had enjoyed, including our love for fashion. The expensive designer handbag lost its appeal in the face of colossal medical bills. And the latest designer-wear, showcased on a virtual …

YANGON: An armed group in Myanmar’s conflict-wracked Rakhine state released on Friday three members of Aung San Suu Kyi’s ruling party, who they had kidnapped ahead of November’s election. The Arakan Army (AA) has for nearly two years been locked in battle with Myanmar’s powerful military, fighting for more autonomy for the state’s ethnic Rakhine population. Both sides stand accused …

ISLAMABAD: A senior foreign ministry official, while criticising the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) for differently treating Pakistani and Indian applications for membership, has regretted that the multilateral export control regime is politicised. According to a media statement issued on Friday by the Strategic Vision Institute (SVI), which hosted a webinar on “The politics of NSG: The current dimensions”, the director …

VIENNA: Iran has told the United Nations nuclear watchdog it plans to enrich uranium to 20 percent purity, a level it achieved before its 2015 accord, at its Fordow site buried inside a mountain. The move is the latest of several recent announcements made by Iran to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it plans to further breach the …

NEW DELHI: India’s drug regulator on Friday approved a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for emergency use, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. The decision clears the vaccine’s rollout in the world’s second-most populous country which, after the United States, has the highest number of Covid-19 infections. India wants to start administering the vaccine soon, …

KABUL: An Afghan radio journalist was shot dead on Friday in a car ambush in the central province of Ghor, officials said, the fifth media worker to be killed in two months. Besmullah Adel Aimaq, Editor-in-Chief of Voice of Ghor radio, was killed en route to Firoz Koh city, the capital of Ghor province, said Aref Aber, the governor’s spokesman. In …