Despite accounting for one-sixth of the country’s total household income, millionaires in the U.S. are currently audited less than 1% of the time WASHINGTON – Low-income families in the U.S. were audited more heavily than millionaires by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during Donald Trump’s final year in office. An analysi...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Pakistani counterpart Jalil Abbas Jilani met in Tibet on Thursday to discuss multi-billion dollars China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The two top diplomats met on the sidelines of the Third Trans-Himalaya Forum for International Cooperation in Tibet Autonomous Region. Emph...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) — Bangladesh has got one step closer to activating its first nuclear power plant as Russia formally delivered an initial shipment of uranium fuel to the South Asian country on Thursday. Via video link, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina attended the official handover even...
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – AFP The president of the COP28 told an Abu Dhabi oil conference on Monday that the fossil fuel industry would play an essential role in addressing the climate crisis. “For too long, this industry has been viewed as part of the problem, that it’s not doing enough and in […]
ANKARA (AA) – The Iraq-Türkiye oil pipeline that transports Iraqi crude oil from Kirkuk to export facilities in Ceyhan on the Turkish Mediterranean coast will resume operations this week and transmit 500,000 barrels of oil per day to global markets, Türkiye’s energy minister has said. The 970-kilometer-long pipeline, which has been in us...
Benghazi, Libya – AFP Libya’s eastern authorities Sunday announced the postponement of a reconstruction conference for the flood-hit city of Derna that had been planned for October 10 but was met with international scepticism. The event was put off until November 1-2 to “offer time for the submission of effective studies and ...
Abuja, Nigeria – AFP Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Sunday proposed a temporary minimum wage hike for lower-paid workers, cheap gas-powered public transport and more social security for the poor to help offset the impact of his economic reforms. Speaking in a national broadcast to mark Nigeria’s 63rd independence da...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libya on Saturday resumed commercial flights to Italy after a decade. A flight operated by the Libyan carrier Medsky Airways departed Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli for the Italian capital, Rome, the Tripoli-based Libyan government said in a statement. According to the Libyan Embassy in Italy, two Libyan flights ...
Sweida, Syria – AFP Hundreds of Syrians protested Friday in the southern city of Sweida, as women play a growing role in the anti-government demonstrations that have rocked the province for over a month, activists said. Peaceful protests have swept Sweida province, the heartland of the country’s Druze minority, since President Bash...
-ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan is in “constant” touch with the US administration seeking a tacit green light to the long-stalled Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline project. However “there are remote chances of a favorable response” from Washington, a Foreign Ministry official said. “In the given geopolitical s...
