WASHINGTON: Pakistan is considering injecting $35.58 million as second bailout package for the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, New York, that is owned by Pakistan International Airlines Investment Limited (PIAIL), a hotel industry magazine reported on Friday. The Hotel Management, a magazine that started in 1922 in New York, also reported that Pakistan’s Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet had discussed setting …

Little Mix singer Perrie Edwards said that there was a time when she “sounded like a frog” because of her tonsils grew the “size of balloons”. Speaking on Apple Music 1, the singer revealed that it was after her X-Factor days when she was taken into surgery to remove her tonsils. Apparently they were so swollen that Perrie would “cringe” every …

SYDNEY: Google threatened on Friday to block Australians from using its search service unless the government changed landmark legislation to make the internet giant pay news outlets for their content. Google Australia’s managing director Mel Silva warned a Senate committee in Canberra that the ‘world-first’ media law was “unworkable” and would undermine the functioning of the internet. “If this version …

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden has proposed to Russia a five-year extension of a nuclear arms treaty that is otherwise set to expire on Feb 5, the White House said on Thursday. The US president proposed the extension even as he asked the intelligence community to look closely into Russia’s cyber attacks, its alleged interference in the Nov 3 election and …

GENEVA: A Geneva court on Friday convicted Israeli diamond and minerals magnate Beny Steinmetz on charges of corruption of foreign agents and forging documents in a trial over a bid to reap lavish iron ore resources in Guinea. Steinmetz has both French and Israeli citizenship. The man, considered by some to be Israeli’s richest man, was sentenced to five years …

NEW DELHI: A plan by police in India to monitor women’s expressions with facial recognition technology to prevent street harassment will lead to intrusive policing and privacy violations, digital rights experts warned on Friday. In Lucknow, about 500 kilometres from New Delhi, police identified some 200 harassment hotspots that women visit often and where most complaints are reported, said police …

The Chinese government will provide a batch of Covid-19 vaccine to Pakistan “as aid” and will “actively coordinate with the relevant Chinese enterprise to speed up export of vaccines to Pakistan”, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said in a press briefing on Friday. “Since the outbreak of Covid-19, China and Pakistan have been working together to overcome difficulties,” she said in response …

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump will go on trial in the US Senate soon after an impeachment case against the former president is transmitted by the House of Representatives on Monday, top lawmakers announced. The House impeached the Republican leader for a historic second time on Jan 13, just one week before he left office, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi has yet to …

WASHINGTON: The US Senate voted overwhelmingly on Friday to confirm retired Army General Lloyd Austin as President Joe Biden’s defence secretary, making him the first black American to serve in the role. The vote was 93-2 in the 100-member chamber, far more than the simple majority needed. Lawmakers from both parties said they were pleased that Austin would be installed …

LAHORE: National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting chairman Mian Javed Latif says the committee will summon the National Accountability Bureau chairman and the prime minister’s adviser on accountability in connection with the Broadsheet scam that caused a loss of millions in foreign exchange in the name of ‘dubious’ accountability. “The parliamentary committee will certainly call the NAB chairman …