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People pay tribute to a memorial monument to martyrs in Hohhot, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, April 2, 2025. People across the country attend tomb-sweeping activities to pay tribute to martyrs ahead of the Qingming Festival, which falls on April 4 this year. (Xinhua/Bei He)An aerial drone photo taken on April 2, 2025 shows students paying tribute to martyrs in front of a monument in Pingdingshan City, central China’s Henan Province. People across the country attend tomb-sweeping activities to pay tribute to martyrs ahead of the Qingming Festival, which falls on April 4 this year. (Photo by He Wuchang/Xinhua)Students…

LAHORE: For more than a decade, Lahore has choked under a thick blanket of smog and air pollution. But successive governments seem more focused on polishing their green credentials than making a real difference. Continuing this trend, the newly formed Environment Protection Force aims to lead by example in a city where most commercial and private vehicles still run on petrol, with no proper emissions monitoring. Its solution? Patrolling the streets and conducting inspections in 25 gleaming hybrid cars—purchased at a staggering cost of Rs 250 million, funded under the World Bank Green Program. To give the government the benefit…

Apple CEO Tim Cook, center, watches during the inauguration ceremonies for President Donald Trump, right, and Vice President JD Vance, left, in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025.Shawn Thew | Afp | Getty ImagesApple slid more than 6% in late trading Wednesday and led a broader decline in tech stocks after President Donald Trump announced new tariffs of between 10% and 49% on imported goods.The majority of Apple’s revenue comes from devices manufactured primarily in China and a handful of other Asian countries. Nvidia, which manufactures new chips in Taiwan and assembles its artificial intelligence…

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on tariffs, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 2, 2025. Leah Millis | ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday laid out the U.S. “reciprocal tariff” rates that more than 180 countries and territories, including European Union members, will face under his sweeping new trade policy.Trump and the White House shared a series of charts on social media detailing the tariff rates they say other countries impose on the U.S. Those purported rates include the countries’ “Currency Manipulation and Trade Barriers.”An adjacent column shows the new U.S. tariff rates on…

File: workers at the Maxport factory, which makes activewear for various textile clothing brands, in Hanoi. Nhac Nguyen | Afp | Getty ImagesRetailers and brands have turned to Vietnam to manufacture goods from sneakers to couches while moving some or all production out of China.For years, China’s southern neighbor became a popular alternative for companies trying to avoid the crossfire of U.S. trade tensions with Beijing. Now, as President Donald Trump expands his tariff targets, they can no longer steer clear.Trump said he will put a 46% duty on imports from Vietnam as part of a new wave of global levies…

Listen to article The death toll from Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza has reached at least 71 since dawn. Over 1,100 Palestinians have been killed since Israel ended the truce last month. In a seperate incident, at least 22 Palestinian civilians were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike on a health clinic run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in northern Gaza, local authorities said. Gaza’s government media office said women, children, and elderly people were among the victims, calling the attack “a full-fledged war crime”. A medical source said earlier that nine children were among the victims, while…

The United Kingdom targets the Russian-based Evrazia group, accusing it of undermining Moldova’s democracy.The United Kingdom says it will impose sanctions on a Russia-based organisation it accused of attempting to rig a referendum in Moldova. Announcing the measures on Wednesday, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said the sanctions targeted a pro-Russia network of actors that was seeking to “destabilise Moldovan democracy and spread Russia’s malign influence”. The Moldovan government has accused Russia of trying to undermine its democracy, including during last year’s presidential election, won by pro-Western leader Maia Sandu, and during an October referendum on whether…

White House Senior Advisor Elon Musk walks to the White House after landing in Marine One on the South Lawn with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) on March 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump was returning to the White House after spending the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida. Samuel Corum | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesTesla shares rose Wednesday after Politico reported that Elon Musk could leave his post at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, paving the way for the CEO to return his focus on the struggling EV maker.The White House later called the…

Elon Musk speaks during the first cabinet meeting hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump, at the White House in Washington, DC, U.S., February 26, 2025. Brian Snyder | ReutersPresident Donald Trump told Cabinet members last week that billionaire Elon Musk will leave his administration role in the coming months, NBC News reported Wednesday.A senior government official told NBC that Musk — whose DOGE team is engaged in a controversial effort to slash federal spending — would leave at the end of a 130-day stint as a special government employee.That specific designation, SGE, caps a person’s workdays per year at 130 days.…

People walk by a view of residential luxury towers along nicknamed Billionaires Row, a stretch of 57th Street that holds the majority of Manhattan’s supertall luxury towers on May 16, 2022 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesManhattan apartment sales jumped 29% in the first quarter from the same period a year ago, as the wealthy sought refuge from volatile stocks to buy real estate, according to new reports.There were 2,560 closed sales in the quarter, up from 1,988 a year ago, according to a report from real estate appraiser Miller Samuel and brokerage Douglas…