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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appears at an event with tech CEOs and senior officials, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the East Room of the White House in Washington on June 22, 2023.Chris Kleponis | CNP | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMicrosoft on Tuesday announced it would invest $17.5 billion in India’s cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure, making it the U.S. tech giant’s largest investment in Asia. The company said that the investments, aimed at expanding hyperscale infrastructure, embedding AI into national platforms, and advancing workforce readiness, will be spread over 4 years, building on its $3 billion pledge made in…

Representatives from nearly 40 founding member states attend a meeting to launch the Group of Friends of Global Governance at the UN headquarters in New York, on Dec. 9, 2025. The Group of Friends of Global Governance was officially established at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Zhang Fengguo)UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) — The Group of Friends of Global Governance was officially established at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday.Representatives from nearly 40 founding member states of the group attended the launch meeting, which was chaired by Fu Cong, China’s permanent representative to the United…

Decide to promote their relations in diverse fields, including trade, culture, health, education, vocational trainingPresident of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Photo: Radio Pakistan Pakistan and Indonesia have signed seven Memorandums of Understanding and Agreements to further enhance bilateral cooperation in diverse fields in Islamabad on Tuesday. The MoUs and agreements include cooperation in higher education, a grant program for Indonesian state scholarships, facilitation of business development for small and medium enterprises, collaboration between national archives, narcotics control and cooperation in preventing and combating illicit drug trafficking, cooperation in Halal trade and certification, and cooperation in the…

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer testifies during a US Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing on 2026 funding priorities, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Dec. 9, 2025.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesU.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday that the deadline for China to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans from American farmers was not the end of December as the White House has said, but the end of the “growing season.”Greer’s comment at the hearing came on the heels of a report by NBC News showing…

This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Dec. 9, 2025 shows Shenzhou-21 astronauts performing extravehicular activities outside China’s orbiting space station. (Xinhua/Liu Yi)BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) — The Shenzhou-21 crew aboard China’s orbiting space station completed their mission’s first series of extravehicular activities on Tuesday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).The astronaut trio — Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang — worked for approximately eight hours and completed their tasks at 6:45 p.m. (Beijing Time), assisted by the space station’s robotic arm and a team on Earth. Wu Fei is the youngest Chinese astronaut…

Counsel tells court that authorities are demolishing houses without prior notice or intimation, calls it unjustifiedLife goes on in Muslim Colony, a slum near the PM House and the Presidency: PHOTO: MUDASSAR RAJA Islamabad High Court has ordered the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to halt its operation in the Muslim Colony katchi abadi. The court has issued a notice to the CDA and sought a reply by December 16. During the hearing, the petitioner’s counsel argued that thousands of people are living in the katchi abadi, which forms part of the Bari Imam area and has been in existence since…

FILE PHOTO: Instacart shopper, Loralyn Geggatt makes a delivery to a customer’s home in Falmouth, MA on April 7, 2020.David L. Ryan | Boston Globe | Getty ImagesGrocery delivery app Instacart uses artificial intelligence pricing tools that have caused many U.S. shoppers to pay higher or lower prices for identical products from the same store, according to a new study. The study, released Tuesday by Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive advocacy group, Consumer Reports and news organization More Perfect Union, enlisted 437 shoppers across four cities to add the same items to their carts within the Instacart app from the same…

[The stream is slated to start at 6:10 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.]President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks on the U.S. economy as he works to sell a message of economic success to a country increasingly concerned about the cost of living.The speech in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, comes as data show Americans feeling squeezed by high prices, which continue to creep up despite Trump’s insistence that he has all but conquered inflation.The most recent consumer confidence survey for November found economic sentiment falling to its lowest…

Action part of broader strategy aimed at eliminating long-standing encroachments, restoring forested landscapes The Murree Forest Division, in coordination with the District Administration and the Punjab Enforcement and Regulatory Authority, on Tuesday launched an operation on Lawrence College Road targeting a decades-old residential structure under the Punjab government’s policy of reclaiming forest land. A residential structure built illegally on approximately one and a half kanals of forest land was demolished, marking another step in the province’s ongoing effort to recover unlawfully occupied public property. Just a few weeks earlier, authorities had reclaimed 231 kanals of Murree State Forest land valued…

Slack CEO Denise Dresser during TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Oct. 29, 2024.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOpenAI on Tuesday announced that it’s tapped Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its chief revenue officer. Dresser will oversee the artificial intelligence startup’s global revenue strategy across both customer success and enterprise, OpenAI said in a release. After spending more than a decade as an executive at Salesforce, Dresser was named Slack’s chief executive in 2023. Salesforce acquired the messaging company for more than $27 billion in 2020.”I’ve spent my career helping scale category-defining platforms, and I’m looking forward to bringing that…