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Pakistani-American Sumbul Siddiqui, a legal aid attorney, has been elected as mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, winning confidence of her fellow city councilors. Siddiqui’s election marks another high-profile example of American inclusiveness in these times of polarizing...

Averting the next round of the trade war – planned for Sunday – Washington and Beijing have reached a last-minute deal to cooperate mutually in ways that boost American agricultural exports to China and reduce tariffs...

Image shows a sculpture of Harriet Tubman by Jane DeDecker, photograph by Dwight Burdette/Wikimedia Some were swiftly sanguine that the Obama presidency may mark a post-racial era.  2019 punctures that balloon of illusion.  Some of the...

 Tourism lies at the heart of interconnected world. But as tourism picks up in countries far and wide, so too use of transport. And when transport expands, it brings jobs, business and cultural interface. But transport...

Pakistan-American Amna Nawaz, who is working as senior Public Broadcasting Service National Correspondent, will co-moderate December 19 Democratic presidential primary debate along with three other seasoned journalists. Amna Nawaz is the first ever South Asian to...

The world’s largest electric auto manufacturer BYD has entered into an agreement with a Pakistani group for the manufacturing of battery-based vehicles in the South Asian country. BYD, the leading Chinese automaker, is following an aggressive...

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is a deeply conservative politician, who appears to oppose anything that climate advocates say or pursue, and his government sees climate change as a hoax. In his latest outburst, Bolsonaro has blamed...

With a stark warning that the world may be heading for “great fracture” in the face of dysfunctional relations between major powers, UN Chief Antonio Guterres is prescribing multilateralism as the only way to save the...

Taking 135,000 lives every year, air pollution has moved to the top of Pakistan’s economic and national health challenges. Pakistan’s economy is facing economic burden to the tune of US$ 47.8 billion every year due to...

Virginians voted categorically for Democrats in a major boost for the party which gained total control of the government in the state with majorities in the Senate and General Assembly. This is for the first time...