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Pakistan is an unusual place for cars. You can buy a new vehicle, drive it for years, and sell it at a higher price: Muhammad Rameez, head of sales at
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The US government has purchased a significant supply of radiation-injury drugs Nplate, to treat acute radiation syndrome (ARS), as Russian officials speak of the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons
The art of attaining closeness to God via the annihilation of the ego which includes not only the base self but also the (often) self-serving intellect. “My turban and gown and
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In this talk, philosopher Achille Mbembe (Africa is a Country) considers the possibilities of a new planetary configuration of the human and the humanities, in light of what he calls
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COLOMBO TIMES Reports: An extraordinary gazette notification has been issued bringing the Department for Registration of Persons, the Department of Immigration & Emigration and the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board
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The building’s chief architect, Joseph Paxton, was not an architect by training. He was a gardener. By Eric Bies in 3Quarks Daily: May of 1851, London, the world’s first World
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Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa had already warned former prime minister Imran Khan that the PM House is unsafe for talks, former information & broadcast minister,
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Economically viable fusion energy will be one of the greatest boons in human history, but it remains frustratingly elusive Kahled Talaat in Tablet: The 21st century may one day be
Shannon Osaka in The Washington Post: The typical “nuclear bro” is lurking in the comments section of a clean energy YouTube video, wondering why the creator didn’t mention #nuclear. He is
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On Morten Jerven’s The Wealth and Poverty of African States (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Review by Alden Young in the Phenomenal World: On May 1, 2014, Nigeria’s then-president, Goodluck Jonathan,
IRSHAD SALIM: Every year, as October comes, I recall a few nuggets from my memory bank, and reminisce them. One of them is the 1990 thriller movie The Hunt For
Kamila Shamsie’s new novel, “Best of Friends” chosen as a book of 2022 by The Guardian, Observer, Daily Mail and Financial Times Molly Young’s review in The New York Times: The