DUBAI: Dubai commuters may soon have a new way to skip traffic: air taxis. Joby Aviation conducted the first test flight of its fully-electric air taxi in the emirate this week, a major milestone in the city’s efforts to integrate airborne transport into existing mobility networks as early as next year. Joby hopes its air-taxis will ease pressure on existing …

WASHINGTON: The United States is pushing for a truce in Gaza by “sometime next week”, US President Donald Trump said Tuesday. The Republican leader was asked by reporters if a ceasefire by Israel in its devastating war on Palestinians could be in place before a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House, set for July 7. …

Diplomatic talks between Washington and Tehran cannot resume unless the US rules out further strikes on Iran, its deputy foreign minister told the BBC late Sunday. Majid Takht-Ravanchi told the British broadcaster that the US had signalled it wants to return to the negotiating table, a week after it struck three Iranian nuclear facilities. “We have not agreed to any …

QUETTA: While Iran and Israel fired missiles at each other last month, the people of Mashkhel — a border town in Balochistan — were struggling to secure essential items. For years, residents of this town have relied on the neighbouring country for daily use items, mainly because it is too far from regular supply chain routes. Located around 700km from …

KARACHI: Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, on Saturday vowed retribution after 13 soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing on an armed forces convoy in the country’s northwestern tribal belt, in one of the deadliest attacks on security personnel in recent months. The military said the convoy was targeted in Mir Ali, a town in North Waziristan near …