Zohran Mamdani has formally taken office as mayor of New York City in a ceremony that underscored his historic election and hinted at the challenges ahead. The 34‑year‑old Democrat was sworn in shortly after midnight at the disused Old City Hall subway station, becoming the first Muslim to lead the United States’ largest city. Mamdani’s team said the choice of …
Dozens of people are feared to have been killed and around 100 injured after an explosion tore through a crowded bar during a New Year’s Eve party in the upscale ski resort of Crans-Swiss police said on Thursday. The Italian foreign ministry said information from Swiss police indicated about 40 deaths, but police would not be more specific than “tens” …
ISLAMABAD: Few could have predicted at the start of 2025 that Pakistan’s foreign policy would end the year on such a dramatically different footing. Long perceived as a country navigating diplomatic isolation, economic fragility and regional pressure, Pakistan closed 2025 having restored strategic relevance across multiple theatres. At the heart of this shift was an unprecedented turnaround in the Pakistan-United …
Pakistan and India on Thursday exchanged updated lists of their nuclear installations, continuing an annual confidence-building measure under a bilateral agreement signed in 1988, the Foreign Office said. Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Hussain Andrabi said the exchange took place in line with the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attacks against Nuclear Installations and Facilities, signed on December 31, 1988. The …
Taylor Swift’s fiancé, Travis Kelce, recently penned a deeply romantic letter to the pop superstar in which he called her the “love of my life”, a moment that was shared in the finale of Swift’s Disney+ docuseries Taylor Swift: The End of an Era. In the final episode of the series, titled “Remember This Moment”, Swift reads the personal note …
