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Virginia may house Apple’s huge new campus for 20,000 employees
Virginia is once again in the spotlight as an emerging new hub of choice for tech facilities. After tech and e-commerce giant Amazon.com recently zeroed in on Washington metro area and two other places in a much-publicized search for its...May 17, 2018 982 0 -
Brookings Institution discussion looks at ways to address inequality
Photo: Ludovic Bertron from New York City, Usa (Miss Liberty @ Sunset)/Wikimedia Commons At a time when the U.S. appears to have stabilized decent economic growth and unemployment rate is the lowest in about two decades,...May 16, 2018 1348 0 -
Brookings Institution discussion looks at ways to address inequality
Photo: Ludovic Bertron from New York City, Usa (Miss Liberty @ Sunset)/Wikimedia Commons At a time when the U.S. appears to have stabilized decent economic growth and unemployment rate is the lowest in about two decades,...May 16, 2018 0 0 -
Mike Pompeo removes restrictions on State Department hiring
State Department HQ Image Credit: AgnosticPreachersKid/Wikimedia Commons The State Department is resuming hiring of foreign service and civil service personnel to current funding levels after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a memo, according to The Hill...May 15, 2018 913 0 -
Pakistan allows U.S. diplomat involved in fatal crash to leave the country
Constitution Ave, Islamabad, Credit: Zacharie Grossen/Wikimedia Commons In a development that could take some of the tension off the U.S.-Pakistan relations, American diplomat Colonel Joseph Emanuel Hall, who was involved in the fatal accident in the...May 14, 2018 999 0 -
Sowing the seeds of intellectual understanding
Image Credit: Chatham House/Wikimedia Commons When Sushmita Kamboj joined my World of Islam class as a student two years ago, she spoke of the vast distances between Islam and Hinduism in India. Growing up in Yamunanagar,...May 12, 2018 1172 0 -
Where is our love for migratory birds?
Limosa lapponica and Thalasseus bergii, flying in to a high tide roost in Roebuck Bay in Western Australia, Credit: Mdk572 /Wikimedia Commons Our love for birds may be boundless – from our association with them as noble and...May 12, 2018 1211 0 -
Concern grows as threat of another conflict looms over the Middle East
A map showing North Africa and the Middle East Credit : Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin Already rattled by a spate of conflicts, the Middle East faces the threat another...May 11, 2018 1455 0 -
AJK President: If North Korea can see a resolution, so can Kashmir
President of Pakistan-administered Kashmir Masood Khan, who is visiting Washington D.C., Wednesday called for a U.S. push toward a resolution of the humanitarian catastrophe and the longstanding dispute – that has kept Pakistan and India in...May 10, 2018 957 0 -
Chinese giant Alibaba buys Pakistani company; expands its e-commerce in South Asia
Image: Alibaba Taiwan grand opening Credit: Rico Shen/Wikimedia Commons Alibaba Group has acquired Pakistani leading e-commerce company Daraz, as the Chinese giant expands its trade presence in South Asia. The two companies have not yet disclosed...May 8, 2018 876 0
