Lebanese President Joseph Aoun spoke with US Vice President JD Vance, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on Monday about consolidating a ceasefire in Lebanon and forming a "de-confliction cell" to halt Israeli military escalation, his office said.
A…
For the past 18 months, nearly all of the efforts to demolish America’s anti-corruption architecture have come from one source: the White House. Under President Trump, it was the White House that announced both the elimination of task forces specifically tasked with tackling kleptocracy and a pause on enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The Trump administration has also transformed…
GILGIT: Newly elected members of the Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Assembly were sworn in on Monday by outgoing Speaker Nazir Ahmed Advocate.
A total of 30 members took the oath as the first session of the sixth assembly convened in Gilgit. These included 21 lawmakers elected on general seats, six women members on reserved seats and three technocrats. The results for three general constituencies remain…
• Estimates losses of around Rs105bn for refineries and marketing companies
• Several OMCs warn of possible bankruptcy amid already shrinking foreign participation in sector
• OCAC warns continued policy instability could trigger investor withdrawal and threaten long-term market viability
ISLAMABAD: The country’s oil industry has protested against a record 18–20 per cent cut in petroleum…
President Donald Trump has been bullish on artificial intelligence and insists that the United States will hold “global AI dominance.” This has resulted in a marked antipathy by the administration to any regulation of AI systems. The Department of Justice has gone after states, such as Utah, that have dared to attempt some regulation in the face of federal inaction, and the first federal feint at…
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Egypt on Sunday welcomed the signing of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the US and Iran during a Regional Four (R-4) meeting in Cairo, emphasising the importance of achieving a “swift and successful” conclusion to the subsequent phase of negotiations.
The meeting came the same day as Pakistan, along with c0-mediator Qatar, hosted…
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PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Sunday announced Advocate Amjad Hussain as the party’s candidate for the post of Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister.
The announcement came a day after the PPP — which emerged as the leading party during the recent general elections — announced it would form a government in GB with the support of the PML-N.
Local PPP and PML-N leaders have agreed on a proposed…
Community Tech development team disbanded: And English Wikipedia reaches a milestone in number of highly active editors.
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The post Sixpence None The…
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Whenever a company makes layoffs, the announcements tend to be corporate-speak at their most sanitized—bloodless at best. The language is heavily vetted for legal and reputational risk to make sure they’re legally ironclad and purposefully anodyne. Or at least that was what this grim tradition looked like in the era before executives began discussing AI-induced workforce cuts.
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On the island of Nantucket, about a hundred miles from where John Hancock and Paul Revere are buried in Boston, it’s a tradition for the local Unitarian Universalist church to host a reading of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights every Fourth of July.
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The Software Freedom
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contributions. The recommendations were created by the SFC and volunteers from the free-software community.
The recommendations reflect the extremely difficult dilemmas that these systems pose for FOSS contributors. SFC and its volunteers understand that…
Plus, an update on changes to the aviation industry.
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A delegation from Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD met Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb and emphasised Pakistan’s growing potential as a market for new energy vehicles, according to a statement issued by the finance ministry on Thursday.
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Epic Games has announced the long term vision for the next major iteration of their development suite: Unreal Engine 6. Marcus Wassmer, the leader of the UE5 development team, detailed this vision as unifying the existing parallel development paths for UE5…
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Utah Republican candidates for Congress diverged on one of the top issues dividing the state, and disrupting the Trump administration, during a debate Tuesday night.
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President Trump has taken further steps to dismantle the Department of Education, moving offices for special education and civil rights to other departments.
The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services will be moved to the Department of Health and Human Services, while the Department of Justice will take over civil rights issues, the Trump administration announced Tuesday.
The…