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Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 17, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Xueren)PHNOM PENH, April 17 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that China and Cambodia set a model for equality, mutual trust and win-win cooperation between countries of different sizes.Xi made the remarks when meeting with Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni during his state visit to Cambodia.Noting that Cambodia has recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of King Sihamoni’s enthronement and the Khmer New Year, Xi said he is delighted to visit the beautiful country of Cambodia at…
Listen to article The federal government has increased vehicle transfer fees across Pakistan, including for electric vehicles (EVs), with immediate effect. The new fees, announced by the Ministry of Finance, apply to both traditional and electric vehicles and are to be deposited into the designated government account. Traditional Vehicle Transfer Fees: Up to 1000cc: Increased from Rs1,200 to Rs2,750. 1001cc to 1800cc: Increased from Rs2,000 to Rs5,500. Above 1800cc: Increased from Rs3,000 to Rs11,000. Electric Vehicle Transfer Fees: Up to 50 kWh: Rs2,500. 51 to 100 kWh: Rs 5,500. Above 100 kWh: Rs10,000 Motorcycle Transfer Fees: These changes aim to streamline the…
Saudi Arabia’s Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman has met several Iranian officials before a second round of talks between Washington and Tehran over Iran’s nuclear programme. Prince Khalid said he conveyed a message from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during Thursday’s meeting in Tehran. “We discussed our bilateral relations and topics of mutual interest,” he wrote on X. “Our belief is that the relationship between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia is beneficial for both countries,” Iranian state media cited Khamenei as saying in the meeting on Thursday. Prince Khalid also…
Alphabet’s Google illegally dominates two markets for online advertising technology, a judge ruled on Thursday, dealing another blow to the tech giant and paving the way for U.S. antitrust prosecutors to seek a breakup of its advertising products.U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, found Google liable for “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in markets for publisher ad servers and the market for ad exchanges which sit between buyers and sellers.The decision clears the way for another hearing to determine what Google must do to restore competition in those markets, such as sell off parts of its business…
LONDON: Commonwealth sport has hit the jackpot with seven nations across four continents jostling to host future editions of the Commonwealth Games, as the race for the prestigious centennial 2030 celebration heats up. Canada, India, and Nigeria had already publicly thrown their hats into the 2030 ring, with two mystery nations also now in the mix, the governing body said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, two additional expressions of interest target future Games, including New Zealand, which has set its sights on 2034. “We are thrilled with the incredible interest from around the Commonwealth,” CEO Katie Sadleir said on Wednesday. “This positive…
Todd Harper, chairman of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, May 16, 2023.Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe White House has fired two Democratic board members of the National Credit Union Administration, the officials said on Wednesday, as President Donald Trump expanded efforts to influence independent regulatory agencies.Todd Harper and Tanya Otsuka, who both served on the NCUA’s board, said in separate statements that they had been removed by Trump. The removals leave the agency, which supervises the nation’s $2.3 trillion credit union sector, with just one…
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele (not pictured) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 14, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | ReutersWall Street banks just posted their biggest-ever haul from stock trading as the opening months of President Donald Trump’s tenure led to upheavals across asset classes — and the need for institutional investors around the world to position themselves for a new regime.Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America each notched record equities trading revenue in the first quarter, with the first three producing roughly $4 billion…
Sam Altman Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI speaks during the Italian Tech Week 2024 at OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni on September 25, 2024 in Turin, Italy. Stefano Guidi | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesOpenAI has released its latest artificial intelligence model, which it said is capable of “thinking with images,” meaning it can understand and analyze a user’s sketches and diagrams, even if they’re low quality.The main new reasoning model from OpenAI is called o3, and the company simultaneously released a smaller model dubbed o4-mini. The rollout follows the September debut of OpenAI’s first reasoning model, o1, which focused on…
Listen to article The Supreme Court’s constitutional bench on Monday issued notices to the acting chief justice of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) and two other judges as it took up pleas challenging their recent transfer to the IHC and related changes in the court’s seniority list. A five-member bench, headed by Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar and including Justices Naeem Akhtar Afghan, Shahid Bilal Hassan, Salahuddin Panhwar, and Shakeel Ahmed, heard multiple petitions filed by five sitting IHC judges and others. The Ministry of Law on February 1 issued a notification for the transfer of Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar, Justice Khadim Hussain Soomro…
When Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took over most of the country’s capital Khartoum in the early days of the war, the youth-led civil society initiative Hadhreen kept its food kitchens – a vital lifeline for those in need – open. It was risky. Countless examples of RSF violence against civilians and looting have been recorded since Sudan’s war started in April 2023. Hadhreen didn’t escape that violence. A spokesperson described to Al Jazeera an episode in August 2024 when the RSF looted supplies from a kitchen and arrested the supervisor. The supervisor’s fate was unknown until after the…